ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]
In this lesson, students look at how non-human images can be used in a self-portrait to portray aspects of a personality.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Drawing [Pdf]
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...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portraits
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...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Mural Inspired by Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
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...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Inez Nathaniel Walker
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).
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, & Things
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.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: A Self Alex Katz
Listen to a critique of Alex Katz' self-portrait by Wendy Wicks Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings
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.
PBS
Pbs: Thomas Eakins (Lessons About the ?American Rembrandt?) [Pdf]
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...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Narrative Necklaces and Beyond! [Pdf]
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pedro E. Guerrero: Capturing the Artist
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...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sf Mo Ma: Frida Kahlo
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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Learning Resources for How Art Made the World
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...
ArtLex
Art Lex: Portrait
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...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Durer, Albrecht
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.
Other
National Portrait Gallery: Collections: Sitters a Z
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.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Jacques Louis David: Empire to Exile
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...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Draw a Portrait
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.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Rembrandt Paintings
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...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Asian American Portraits of Encounter
Exhibition of the work of seven contemporary Asian American artists considers the genre from a distinctly Asian American point of view.
ArtQuizz
Art Quizz: Vigee Le Brun
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.