EL Education
El Education: Self Portraits
Students work through drafting process to create self-portraits that later become the covers of autobiographical books.
EL Education
El Education: Photographic Self Portraits
Students learn to translate conceptual thinking into photographs by creating self portraits with digital photography.
EL Education
El Education: Pointillist Self Portraits
Students create self portraits from a digital image with a fine point marker.
EL Education
El Education: Self Portrait Poster
Students create self-portraits which are then cut and pasted into one classroom collage.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Eugene Carrier Self Portrait
The collection of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes this self-portrait painting by Mary Cassatt, which may be enlarged. Descriptive text appears below the image.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: A Self Alex Katz
Listen to a critique of Alex Katz' self-portrait by Wendy Wicks Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery.
My Learning
My Learning: Self Image
Explore the many different ways to create a self-portrait by looking at four artists who each take a different approach.
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ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Collage [Pdf]
In this lesson, students create a visual representation of themselves using collage with magazine cut-outs and write a detailed description of it.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Cecilia Beaux
A brief biography of Cecelia Beaux, portraitist and one of the most successful female artist of her era. Included is a self-portrait.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Stuart Davis
Wendy Wick Reaves,a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, discusses the pencil drawing by Stuart Davis and explains how he achieves the look of his self-portrait.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Vigee Le Brun, Self Portrait
Elisabeth Louise Vigee-LeBrun became famous and wealthy as Queen Marie-Antoinette's official court painter. View pictures and read about her life in this essay.
Other
National Portrait Gallery: Collections: Sitters a Z
This site from the official National Portrait Gallery of the United Kingdom is a resource to search the collection by typing in a subject's name or access the section on artists.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings
Portraits in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery can be seen and understood with excellent gallery notes that also survey the history of portraiture in American art leading up to the modern period.
Other
Art Lesson: Cut Paper Self Portraits
A slight variation to a classic art assignment. Includes suggestions for creating challenges for all age levels.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]
In this activity, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...
EL Education
El Education: Class Portrait Poster
Kindergarten students at the College School in St. Louis, Missouri, created this over-sized poster of individual student self-portraits. The portraits were part of an investigation of the students in the class- their similarities and...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Draw a Portrait
In addition to providing suggestions for drawing the perfect portrait, Kids at Art looks at Leonardo da Vinci and his ideas about depicting the human figure.
Curated OER
Eye Contact: A Self Portrait of Alex Katz
Listen to a critique of Alex Katz' self-portrait by Wendy Wicks Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery.
Other
Cgfa: El Greco's Self Portrait
This art resource contains a copy of El Greco's "Self Portrait".
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Sarah Goodridge
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Sarah Goodridge is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her portraits (including her own self-portrait).
Other
The New Children's Museum: Face It
Create a self-portrait using a variety of art techniques and styles by cutting construction paper into facial contour lines.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Kahlo, the Two Fridas (Las Dos Fridas)
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is known for her self-portraits. These powerful and unflinching self-images explore complex and difficult topics including her culturally mixed heritage, the harsh reality of her medical conditions, and the...
Other
17th Century Women Poets: Picture Gallery Anne Killigrew
Self portraits of Anne Killigrew, and the title page of her 1686 volume of poems.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma Exhibit: Chuck Close
A brief introduction to the work of photorealist painter Chuck Close. Includes visual examples of his work, including the recognizable "Big Self-Portrait".
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