This is an introduction to portrait painting for grade 6 art students.

1. Portrait Painting
an introduction

2. When you woke up
this morning,
what sortsee?
of person did you
Grumpy? Smiling?

3. Do you think
youraway what
reflection
gives
?
you are like
as a person

4. Can posture give
meaning
in a portrait?

5. Can
facial expressions
give meaning
in a portrait?

6. Can
colour
give meaning
in a portrait?

7. Can the inclusion of
possessions or
surroundings give
meaning in a portrait?

8. Do they tell you
what the artist is
interested in?

9. How else can artists
show how they are
feeling?

10. ?
How can we read a painting

11. Look at this
portrait by Van
Gogh.

12. How does the
swirly background
show how he is
feeling?

13. Have you ever seen a portrait that
has more than a person’s face?

14. ?
Why do
artists
do this

15. Compare these two pieces:

17. How can artists show
themselves in imaginary ways?
"Bonaparte Crossing the Alps"
Jacques Louis David

18. Native art uses a lot of animal imagery.
“Spirit of the Warrior”
Joanne Victoria Moore
"Two Wolves and the Moon"
David Bell
“Those of Keen Sight”
Kent Burles

19. Artists also distort facial features
(Picasso, Modigliani) to enhance, comment
or create a tone.

20. How do artists use self-portraits to
celebrate an event, a talent or status?
Albrecht Durer

21. Did you know, Rembrandt painted
himself 80 times at different stages
of his life!

22. Artists may also
show what they
were like in the
past, as well as
what they are like
now.
“I and the Village”
Marc Chagall
1911

23. ?
How can you use pose,
brushwork, colour or
background to show your
character, your likes, your
fears, your mood, your
beliefs or a talent in your
self-portrait

24. View other portrait paintings here:
http://vi.sualize.us/elemict/portrait%
20painting/