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Portrait art

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a Portrait?

a)

A painting of the ocean.

b)

Any type of Art with a person as the subject.

c)

A photo of a room interior.

d)

A drawing of a bowl of fruit.

2.

What is a self-portrait?

a)

A painting of a person.

b)

Any artwork the artist creates based on themselves.

c)

It has to be abstract.

d)

It has to be realistic.

3.

What artist created the painting "Marilyn Monroe" ?

a)

Vincent Van Gogh

b)

Edvard Munch

c)

Pablo Picasso

d)

Johannes Vermeer

e)

Andy Warhol

4.

What artist created the painting "Mona Lisa" ?

a)

Vincent Van Gogh

b)

Edvard Munch

c)

Pablo Picasso

d)

Johannes Vermeer

e)

Leonardo da Vinci

5.

Vincent Van Gogh

Which painting below is his self-portrait?

a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

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.

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Frida Kahlo

c)

Mona Lisa

d)

Leonardo Da Vinci

7.

Why do artists create portraits?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

They like doing drawings of nature.

8.
A preliminary pencil sketch is the study of your subject matter where you determine 
a)
what color you background should be
b)
proportion and scale
9.
When told to scale up your drawing your instructor is asking you to 
a)
weigh your sketch on a scale
b)
increase the amount of graphite you use 
c)
increase the size of your drawing
10.
Portraits are created for:
a)
Family Heirlooms
b)
Humor
c)
Wealth Royalty
d)
All of the Above
11.
Portraits typically feature a person in the _____
a)
background
b)
foreground
c)
reflection
d)
wild
12.

What does a Self-Portrait mean in art?

a)

A selfie created by the artist themselves using any kind of art material.

b)

A written diary of personal reflection.

c)

A portrait created by someone else.

d)

A picture of a turtle.

13.

What is a Facial Expression?

a)

A character's way of showing an emotion or reaction to a situation.

b)

A name brand for a Face Mask.

c)

An Anime Character.

d)

An old way of drawing a face.

14.

How can you transfer the image from a photo to a piece of drawing paper?

a)

Use a grid?

b)

Use the light box?

c)

Try to copy manually, using your pencil to measure scale and angles?

d)

All the above?

15.

Which image looks like the first stage of a portrait drawing?

a)
b)
c)
d)
16.

Portrait

a)

what the sitter does with his or her hands

b)

a representation of a person or group of people

c)

the position of the body

17.

This is a portrait?

a)

True

b)

False

18.

This is a portrait?

a)

True

b)

False

19.

What type of portrait is this?

a)

full body

b)

only face

c)

half body

20.

What type of portrait is this?

a)

half body

b)

full body

c)

only face

21.

What do most artists use to do self portraits?

a)

mirrors

b)

glasses

c)

hole punchers

d)

spoons

22.

Self-portraits always have to be totally revealing.

a)

true

b)

false

23.

What kind of drawing are we doing when we are drawing portraits?

a)

investigation

b)

exploration

c)

research

d)

observational

24.

This is a portrait.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

The face is described as __________ because one side is identical to the other side.

a)

asymmetrical

b)

distorted

c)

unbalanced

d)

symmetrical

26.

Jane's eyes are drawn so big that they are nearly touching each other. The term to describe this is drawn _________.

a)

out of proportion

b)

out of balance

c)

out of shape

d)

out of poor skills

27.

What's her expression?

a)

funny

b)

sad

c)

happy

d)

serious

28.

Which is a portrait?

a)
b)
29.

Portraiture in art is a study of people's faces.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

A caricature is:

a)

A realistic portrait

b)

A photograph

c)

A bad portrait

d)

An exaggerated portrait

31.

The view of this portrait is:

a)

Side-on (Profile view)

b)

3/4 view

c)

Front on view

32.

The view of this portrait is:

a)

Side-on (Profile view)

b)

3/4 view

c)

Front on view

33.

Where might we see portraits?

a)

Art galleries

b)

In photo frames around the house.

c)

In a dictionary

34.

Practicing Self Portraits help us to:

a)

Tell the world about ourselves

b)

Become better artists

c)

Learn about others

d)

All of the above

35.

Based on what we learned, choose the options that are portraits:

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
36.

Name 3 materials that can be used to create a portrait

4 lines
37.

A photograph of a person can show how they feel

a)

True

b)

False

38.
This girls looks rather...
a)
suprised
b)
strange
c)
boder
d)
exhausted
39.

How does he feel?

a)

upset

b)

happy

c)

shocked

d)

excited

40.

The camera is _________________ to see the faces of the people in the picture

a)

Too Close

b)

Too Far

c)

Just Right