Facing History:

 Portrait: a painting, drawing, or photograph of a person that usually only includes the person's head and shoulders  Self-Portrait: a portrait of an artist produced or created by that artist  Proportion: the correct or appropriate relationship between the size, shape, and position of the different parts of something  Expressionism: a theory or practice in art of seeking to depict the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in the artist  Foreshorten: portray or show a view as closer than it is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision

BUST OF NEFERTITI (1345 BCE) LIMESTONE AND STUCCO, 19” NEUES MUSEUM, BERLIN  Portraits describe not only physical features but more importantly power and status  Portraits exist as early as Ancient Egyptian wall paintings of gods and pharaohs.  Ancient Greek and Romans started the tradition of depicting figure-heads on coins  The Renaissance re-invented portraiture in its modern sense and is a pivotal moment in the history of the genre.  Predominately portraying royals, nobles, and religious figures  Concentration on the status and personality of the sitter  Addition of new techniques, such as Linear Perspective and Chiaroscuro Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa (c ) Oil on Poplar

OTTO DIX PORTRAIT OF THE JOURNALIST SYLVIA VON HARDEN (1928) OIL AND TEMPERA ON WOOD ALICE NEEL HARTLEY (1965) OIL ON CANVAS

 Dada: A subversive movement in art and literature that was created to reflect the violence and trauma of World War I  Begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich  Nonsense word that means different things in different languages ▪ Hobbyhorse in French ▪ Yes, yes in Romanian ▪ Baby talk in English  Rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition  A critique of contemporary conventions of power in politics and art  Anti-art/anti-aesthetic: an art ideology encouraging artists to break from the traditions and conventions of the past and to use their art to express dissatisfaction with conventional society  Classically trained artist who found traditional styles limiting  Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) the subject of the painting is the movement of the body, light, and shape  Declared the medium of painting to be dead and called for an anti- aesthetic in art  Fountain (1917) an act of defiance, introduction of “readymades” which challenged a tradition of art that had been in place for thousands of years, asking the art world to answer the question, what is art? Marcel Duchamp

Untitled (Duchamp with Blue Eyes) Ray Johnson (1987) M.D. Jasper Johns (1964)

  JR and Marco  The Face2Face project consists of taking portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and posting them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on both Israeli and Palestinian sides. We want, at last, everyone to laugh and to think by seeing the portrait of the other and his own portrait.

Proportion #1: The eyes are halfway down the head. Proportion #2: The edges of the nostrils line up with the tear ducts of the eyes. Proportion #3: The space between the eyes is approximately the width of an eye. Proportion #4: The head is about five eyes wide. Proportion #5: The corners of the mouth line up with the pupils of the eyes.

1. Photo Shoot a. In profile b. Exaggerated emotion c. Don’t like the image taken in class? Take one at home, print it out and bring it in (or it to me) 2. Grid and Transfer photograph onto paper 3. Use Shading to develop form and value 4. What am I looking for (RUBRIC)? a. Likeness: Does it look like you b. Composition: Is it an interesting expression, angle and pose? c. Full use of tonal values and shading d. Effort and Neatness

 What MOOD should your self-portrait create?  What do you want the viewer to FEEL?  What do you want the viewer to KNOW about you?  What EXPRESSION should your face convey?  What STORY should the picture tell?  What is your best angle? Is your best angle the one you want to use?