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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