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Portraiture Lesson 1

This lesson explores the characteristics of portraits and non-portraits through a card sort connector activity. Students will learn how to identify portraits, understand the differences between the two groups of pictures, and create their own portrait drawings. The lesson also discusses the historical significance and contemporary uses of portraiture.

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Portraiture Lesson 1

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  1. PortraitureLesson 1

  2. Portraits Not Portraits Connector: Card Sort Which paintings are portraits?

  3. What is different between the 2 groups of pictures? Portraits Not Portraits • Picture of a person. • Can normally only see their shoulders and face. • Records a persons appearance. • Shows a persons personality. • The picture is normally portrait way up. • Picture is not normally of people. • Picture can be of objects, landscapes, nature and buildings. • Shows how the artist feels about the objects/scenery. • Picture is normally landscape way up.

  4. Big picture • Connector: card sort • Discuss what makes a portrait • Mind map. • Demonstration. • Drawing time. • Review.

  5. Learning Outcome • All will mind map their new project and know what a portrait is. • All will do drawing studies of the nose and lips. • Most pupils learn what tone is and use 2 tones. • Some will use 3 tones and use shading very smoothly.

  6. Why has Portraiture been used in the past? • Sign of wealth. • Capture a physical likeness to send to a person they may wish to marry. • However some portraits were made to show an idealised (air brushed) image of the person so they appeared better looking. • Showing a physical presence in a building or space when they are absent.

  7. Where can portraiture be found today?

  8. BUT Why do we still use the painted portrait? • To observe and understand physical proportion. • Explore human expression. • Patience through the painting process. • A painting is a one off piece and can never be painted the same way again. • Where as a digital photo is one of many and can easily be forgotten.

  9. Who is your idol? -who can explain what an idol is? Mind map What are your likes and dislikes? Singers/Bands Myself Portraiture Project Hobbies Sports/ Art/ Music/ Cooking Foods Clothes Culture Films Sports men/women Actor/Actress Colours Books/ Authors Religion Family/ Friends

  10. Demonstration: Drawing stages 1) SOFTLTY draw the OUTLINE. 2) SOFTLY draw the BIG INSIDE SHAPES. 3) SOFTLY draw the DETAIL. 4) SHADE in the LIGHT TONES. 5) SHADE in the MIDDLE TONES. 6) SHADE in the DARK TONES. 7) START a NEW DRAWING.

  11. Drawing Stages STAGES Softly sketch the outline Softlysketch in the big shapes of the shoe Softly draw in small details e.g. Laces, stitches Add light tones= very softpencil pressure, thin lines (hold pencil at a diagonal to the table) NOTE: the lightest highlights leave blank/white 5) Add medium tones=mediumpencil pressure 6) Add dark tones=heavypencil pressure, thick lines

  12. review Go round the room... Say who your idol is And why they are your idol

  13. Historical Portraits Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503-06 Unkown Artist, Henry VIII Johannes Vermeer, Head of a Young Girl, 1660 Above: Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s, Vertumnus, 1591 George Romney, Mary Moser, 1770-1

  14. Historical Portraits Left: Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait Saint Rémy, September 1889 Right: Tamara de Lempicka, Auto Portrait, 1929 Above: Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-bauer I, 1907

  15. Contemporary Portraits Left: Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait with Monkey, 1940 Left: Sonia Boyce, She Ain’t Holding Them Up, She’s Holding On (Some English Rose), 1986 Below: Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, 1967

  16. Contemporary Portraits Left: Lucien Freud, Queen Elizabeth II, 2000-01 Below: Beryl Cook, Bertie, 1980 Left: Julian Opie, Best of Blur Album Front Cover

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