Pre-Visit: Proportion, Portraits, and Culture
Pre-Activities: #1 |#2 | #3
Key Questions
- How do artists communicate about people when they create a portrait?
- How does the proportion of a figure reflect its cultural identity?
Objective/Goals/Learning Outcomes
- Students gain an understanding of proportions and how different cultures represent the human figure.
Vocabulary
- proportion | foreground | gesture | Leonardo da Vinci | sculpture | background | estimate
Quotes
- “Art takes nature as its model.”
— Aristotle
- “All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different.”
— Henry Glassie
- “Culture is something that evolves out of the simple, enduring elements of everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.”
- — Thor Hansen
- "There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
— Ansel Adams
- "What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?"
— Michelangelo
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