Portrait art

What is a Portrait?

• A painting of the ocean.

• Any type of Art with a person as the subject.

• A photo of a room interior.

• A drawing of a bowl of fruit.

What is a self-portrait?

• A painting of a person.

• Any artwork the artist creates based on themselves.

• It has to be abstract.

• It has to be realistic.

What artist created the painting "Marilyn Monroe" ?

• Vincent Van Gogh

• Edvard Munch

• Pablo Picasso

• Johannes Vermeer

• Andy Warhol

What artist created the painting "Mona Lisa" ?

• Vincent Van Gogh

• Edvard Munch

• Pablo Picasso

• Johannes Vermeer

• Leonardo da Vinci

Vincent Van Gogh

Which painting below is his self-portrait?

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This expressive portrait photograph is of the famous German born physicist, who developed the theory of relativity (an explanation of gravity) and the equation E=MC2.

• Albert Einstein

• Frida Kahlo

• Mona Lisa

• Leonardo Da Vinci

Why do artists create portraits?

• They create portraits because they don't like doing landscapes.

• They want to communicate about a person and what they are like.

• They like doing drawings of nature.

A preliminary pencil sketch is the study of your subject matter where you determine 

• what color you background should be
• proportion and scale

When told to scale up your drawing your instructor is asking you to 

• weigh your sketch on a scale
• increase the amount of graphite you use 
• increase the size of your drawing

Portraits are created for:

• Family Heirlooms
• Humor
• Wealth Royalty
• All of the Above