1. What is a Portrait?
Why do we make images of ourselves and others?

3. por•trait
noun
|ˈpôrtrət; -ˌtrāt|

4. por•trait
|ˈpôrtrət; -ˌtrāt|
noun
1. a work of art that represents a specific
person.

5. por•trait
|ˈpôrtrət; -ˌtrāt|
noun
1. a work of art that represents a specific
person.
portraits usually show what a person looks
like as well as revealing something about
the subject’s personality.

6. por•trait
|ˈpôrtrət; -ˌtrāt|
noun
1. a work of art that represents a specific
person.
portraits usually show what a person looks
like as well as revealing something about
the subject’s personality.
portraits can be made of any sculptural
material or in any two-dimensional
medium.

7. Rhinoceros, man, and bison. Lascaux, France,
ca. 15,000-13,000 B.C.E.

8. Rhinoceros, man, and bison. Pech Merle Cave,
France, ca. 23,000 B.C.E.

9. Handprint, Chauvet Cave, France
ca. 30,000-28,000 B.C.E.

10. M.C. Escher (Dutch)
Hand with Reflecting Sphere, 1935

11. Gabriel Orozco (Mexican)
My Hands are My Heart, 1991

14. Gabriel Orozco (Mexican)
My Hands are My Heart, 1991

15. Falcon Reliquary (Egyptian)
ca. 600-350 B.C.E.

16. Falcon Reliquary (Egyptian)
ca. 600-350 B.C.E.

18. Damien Hirst (German)

19. Damien Hirst (German)
For the Love of God, 2007 A.D.

20. Damien Hirst (German)
For the Love of God, 2007 A.D.
a platinum cast of a real human
skull encrusted with 8,601
diamonds

21. Damien Hirst (German)
For the Love of God, 2007 A.D.
a platinum cast of a real human
skull encrusted with 8,601
diamonds
cost 14 million pounds to
make, allegedly sold for 50
million pounds - this would
make it the most expensive
work of art ever sold

22. Damien Hirst (German)
For the Love of God, 2007 A.D.
a platinum cast of a real human
skull encrusted with 8,601
diamonds
cost 14 million pounds to
make, allegedly sold for 50
million pounds - this would
make it the most expensive
work of art ever sold
teeth are real human teeth

23. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Self Portraits, 1889

24. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Self Portraits, 1889

25. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)

26. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)

27. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Paul Gauguin (French)

28. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Paul Gauguin (French)

29. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Paul Gauguin (French)

30. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Paul Gauguin (French)

31. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Paul Gauguin (French)

32. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Paul Gauguin (French)

33. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Paul Gauguin (French)

34. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Paul Gauguin (French)

35. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Paul Gauguin (French)

36. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch)
Starry Night, 1889

39. AND
IT
WAS
ALL
YELLOW

40. Albrecht Durer (German)
Self-Portrait at 22, 1493

41. Albrecht Durer (German)
Self-Portrait at 22, 1493

42. Albrecht Durer (German)
Self-Portrait at 26, 1498
Self-Portrait at 22, 1493

43. Albrecht Durer (German)
Self-Portrait at 26, 1498
Self-Portrait at 22, 1493

44. Albrecht Durer (German)
Self-Portrait at 26, 1498
Self-Portrait at 22, 1493
Self-Portrait at 28, 1500

45. Noah Kalina (American)
Noah K. Everyday 2000-Present

46. Noah Kalina (American)
Noah K. Everyday 2000-Present

47. Cindy Sherman (American)
Self Portraits, 2012 & 1981

48. Cindy Sherman (American)
Self Portraits, 2012 & 1981

51. Bayeté Ross Smith (American)
Our Kind of People, 2010

52. Bayeté Ross Smith (American)
Our Kind of People, 2010

53. Bayeté Ross Smith (American)
Our Kind of People, 2010

54. The “Our Kind Of People” series examines how
clothing, ethnicity and gender affect our ideas about
identity, personality and character.
The subjects in this work are dressed in clothing
from their own wardrobes. The outfits are worn in a
style and fashion similar to how that person would
wear them in daily life.
I have kept the lighting and facial expressions the
same in each photograph, changing only the clothing
and race. Devoid of any context for assessing the
personality of the individual in the photograph, the
viewer projects her or his own cultural biases on
each photograph.

55. Bayeté Ross Smith (American)
Our Kind of People, 2010

56. Bayeté Ross Smith (American)
Our Kind of People, 2010

57. Bayeté Ross Smith (American)
Our Kind of People, 2010

58. Bayeté Ross Smith (American)
Our Kind of People, 2010

59. Bayeté Ross Smith (American)
Our Kind of People, 2010

60. Leonardo da Vinci (Italian)
ca. 1512

61. Leonardo da Vinci (Italian)
Mona Lisa, ca. 1503-1506

62. Salvador Dalí (Spanish)
The Persistence of Memory, 1931

64. I DON’T
DO
DRUGS.

65. I DON’T
DO
DRUGS.
AM
DRUGS.
I

66. Salvador Dalí (Spanish)
The Persistence of Memory, 1931

69. Leonardo da Vinci (Italian)
Mona Lisa, ca. 1503-1506

70. Salvador Dalí (Spanish)
Self Portrait as Mona Lisa, 1954

71. Frida Kahlo
(Mexican)
Two Fridas, 1939

72. Frida Kahlo (Mexican)
The Little Deer, 1946

73. Ron Mueck (American)
Mask II, 2001

83. Ron Mueck (American)
Crouching Boy in Mirror, 1999-2000