Museum-Visit: What is a Portrait?
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Key Questions

How do artists communicate about people when they create a portrait?

What kinds of objects does the artist put into the image or beside the image?

How does the setting of a portrait influence the information communicated?

Objective/Goals/Learning Outcomes

Students develop skill in observing artwork.

Vocabulary

portrait | portraiture | foreground | background | subject matter
medium | frontal | profile | half-profile | bas relief | free-standing

Quotes

"There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books."
— Charlie Chaplin

"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb."
— Jean Arp

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