Post-Visit: Proportions, Portraits, and Culture
Post-Activities #1 | #2 | #3

Key Questions

How do artists communicate about people when they create a portrait?
How does your personality affect the way that you interpret the artist’s message?

Objective/Goals/Learning Outcomes

Students personalize their experience of portraits by defining a personal connection between the attributes they have identified in themselves and artwork.

Vocabulary

attribute | thumbnail | mind map

Quotes

"Every good painter paints what he is."
Jackson Pollock

“It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.”
Berthe Morisot

“If the artist sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him.”
Caspar David Friedrich

"All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
Federico Fellini

“What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience. “
Rollo May

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