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Looking at Photography Lesson 1: The Elements of Photography
Students explore and discuss the process of taking a photograph.
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Silicon Valley Art Museum: Put Yourself on a Stamp: A Self Portrait Lesson [Pdf]
The Silicon Valley Art Museum presents this printable pdf art activity caled "Put Yourself on a Stamp: A Self-Portrait Lesson", in which you are guided through a creative activity with discussion.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Looking at Art: Rembrandt Self Portrait
From the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this is a learning exercise called Looking at Art which deals with the theme of portraits using the example of Rembrandt's self-portrait, 1629.
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portraits
Displays a representative collection of self-portraits by van Gogh for the purposes of comparing and contrasting. Includes a short note on van Gogh's unique and intense style. Excellent site for exploring the changes in van Gogh's...
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Silicon Valley Art Museum: All About Me: Self Portrait Lesson
The Silicon Valley Art Museum presents this printable pdf activity "All about Me: Self-Portrait Lesson", which guides students through the creation of their own self-portrait with a little bit of art history mixed in.
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Silicon Valley Art Museum: New Clothes: Self Portrait Lesson With Crayon Rubbing
Silicon Valley Art Museum presents this printable pdf activity "New Clothes: Self-Portrait Lesson with Crayon Rubbing" which teaches the technique of making rubbings.
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).
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Charles Willson Peale
From the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this is a self-portrait and biography for Charles Willson Peale, monumental portrait painter of George Washington and the man responsible for opening America?s first...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Benjamin West
Benjamin West is profiled at this site in a format that begins with a brief biographical sketch of his life. His works are then listed by appearance in the museum's database. Each work is presented in thumbnail format with brief...
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.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Jacques Louis David: Empire to Exile
The companion website of a major survey of the work of Jacques-Louis David exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum in February 2005. The exhibition focuses on the artist's career after the French Revolution, from the mid-1790s until his...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Romaine Brooks
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Romaine Brooks is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her use of a basic palette (black, white, and grays) and her own self-portrait.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Chuck Close
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Chuck Close in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Inez Nathaniel Walker
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Inez Nathaniel-Walker is described here along with information on her contributions to art through portrait painting (with elements of self-portraiture).
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Malvin Gray Johnson
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on African American artist of the Harlem Renaissance Malvin Gray Johnson. In addition, an extensive listing of his works as...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Herbert Katzman
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Herbert Katzman is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his paintings, which showed an influence of French Expressionism.
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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.
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The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge
This museum resource provides images, education resources, and a wonderful biography of artist Norman Rockwell.
New York Times
New York Times: Vincent Van Gogh: A Draftsman's Fist
Michael Kimmelman, art critic for the New York Times, narrates a walk-through slideshow of an exhibition of Van Gogh's drawings mounted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005. Wonderful examples of Van Gogh's landscapes and...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Rembrandt Paintings
The Metropolitan showcases all the paintings (chiefly portraits) in its collection by Rembrandt on this page. Here you can read a biographical note of the artist and learn about the qualities of his art for which he is best known and...
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Vincent Van Gogh
A Webmuseum English biographical essay of Vincent van Gogh, with a number of art illustrations.
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".
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Frida Kahlo Issue
Learn about key aspects of Kahlo's art from this captioned exhibit of a stamp issued in 2001 to commemorate her.
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'Self Portrait'
This report focuses on the French painter Pierre Bonnard, his methods and his work, in honor of a large exhibition of his work at the Washington, D.C., modern art museum. Includes related links.