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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students look at how non-human images can be used in a self-portrait to portray aspects of a personality.
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Drawing [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, learners will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portraits

For Students 9th - 10th
Displays a representative collection of self-portraits by van Gogh for the purposes of comparing and contrasting. Includes a short note on van Gogh's unique and intense style. Excellent site for exploring the changes in van Gogh's...
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Mural Inspired by Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site has a series of curricular resources on the Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. The site is primarily directed toward teachers to strengthen their teaching skills but has other content beyond those dedicated to lesson...
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Inez Nathaniel Walker

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Inez Nathaniel-Walker is described here along with information on her contributions to art through portrait painting (with elements of self-portraiture).
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, & Things

For Students 9th - 10th
Sculptor and printmaker, she is among the most significant artists of her generation. This exhibition showcases the scope of Smith through such topics as anatomy, self-portraiture, nature, and female iconography.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: A Self Alex Katz

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to a critique of Alex Katz' self-portrait by Wendy Wicks Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings

For Students 9th - 10th
Portraits in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery can be seen and understood with excellent gallery notes that also survey the history of portraiture in American art leading up to the modern period.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Thomas Eakins (Lessons About the ?American Rembrandt?) [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find four lesson plans developed for the PBS documentary "Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life" about the life and work of the man who would become known as the ?American Rembrandt.? The lessons touch on all the essential qualities of...
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Narrative Necklaces and Beyond! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students will create a piece of art that will identify an artist, but is not a standard self-portrait with traditional facial features. It will be a collage incorporating images, colors, symbols, and text to help describe...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pedro E. Guerrero: Capturing the Artist

For Students 9th - 10th
This media gallery from the American Masters and VOCES co-presentation of Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey explores Guerrero's working relationship with sculptor Louise Nevelson. Guerrero was a gifted photographer of...
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Handout
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Sf Mo Ma: Frida Kahlo

For Students 9th - 10th
Unique perspective on the life and her work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, with insightful analysis of her art and that of her artist-husband Diego Rivera.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Learning Resources for How Art Made the World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Access five lessons that would enrich any curriculum about ancient civilizations and the art produced by those civilizations. Using the PBS documentary "How Art Made the World" as a jumping off point, the lessons ask students to think...
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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: Portrait

For Students 9th - 10th
A very good website on portraits and portraiture. Provides a good defintition of portrait and several examples of portraits from different eras and cultures in history. Includes many quotes by artists concerning their attitudes towards...
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Website
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Durer, Albrecht

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biographical history with links to images of his works including "The Four Holy Men." Also contains information on his high regard in Germany as an artist and offers interpretation of several of his paintings and his style.
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Other

National Portrait Gallery: Collections: Sitters a Z

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the official National Portrait Gallery of the United Kingdom is a resource to search the collection by typing in a subject's name or access the section on artists.
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Website
J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Jacques Louis David: Empire to Exile

For Students 9th - 10th
The companion website of a major survey of the work of Jacques-Louis David exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum in February 2005. The exhibition focuses on the artist's career after the French Revolution, from the mid-1790s until his...
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Lesson Plan
Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Draw a Portrait

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In addition to providing suggestions for drawing the perfect portrait, Kids at Art looks at Leonardo da Vinci and his ideas about depicting the human figure.
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Handout
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Rembrandt Paintings

For Students 9th - 10th
The Metropolitan showcases all the paintings (chiefly portraits) in its collection by Rembrandt on this page. Here you can read a biographical note of the artist and learn about the qualities of his art for which he is best known and...
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Asian American Portraits of Encounter

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition of the work of seven contemporary Asian American artists considers the genre from a distinctly Asian American point of view.
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ArtQuizz

Art Quizz: Vigee Le Brun

For Students 9th - 10th
A quiz on the life of Vigee LeBrun, translated into English from the original French. Proof the answers before using this for the first time, as the translation isn't the best. The ArtQuizz homepage uses several different languages.