Art of Portraiture
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
**Who are you? **What is portraiture? **How do artists use the art of portraiture to construct and reflect identity? **What is a Power Portrait? |
Targets:
I will analyze why and how artists use portraiture to construct and reflect identity. I will decipher why a portrait might make an impact on a social, cultural, or economic level. |
Use the Google Slides presentation
"Power Portraits" in your Google Classroom or in your classroom Journal to take notes as we explore artists known for their mastery of self portraits. |
Power Portraits
Kehinde Wiley --
Kehinde Wiley --
THE POWER PORTRAIT
Click HERE for a portion of the NPR interview, "The Exquisite Dissonance of Kehinde Wiley" Check out Kehinde Wiley's website for a full gallery and upcoming projects HERE. You can also read about why he picks certain images, where he gets his models and
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"Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world."
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Click Here to compare a traditional Portrait of a Present to a Portrait of a President created by Kehinde Wiley
Click HERE to see the Unveiling of President Barak Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama's official portraits
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"Kehinde Wiley creates paradigm shift in the art world" by CBS Sunday Morning
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"Artist reimagines classic paintings with modern twist" by CNN
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Have fun and explore on your own!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kehinde-wileys-echoes-of-masterworks/ https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/kehinde-wiley-creates-paradigm-shift-in-the-art-world/ |
"Kehinde Wiley, a painter changing the image of black men"
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