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Portrait and Self-Portrait
- Grade 4
- The Arts
- Visual Arts
Description
In this activity, students determine the key elements and aesthetic principles used in making various portraits and self-portraits. Students also discover Rembrandt Harmenxoon Van Rijin. With their peers, students reflect on the social and cultural dimensions of visual arts in various works of art from the past and present.
Learning goals
- I observe portraits or self-portraits to determine key elements and aesthetic principles used in two-dimensional works.
Vocabulary
- key elements: colour, shape, lines, texture, space
- aesthetic principles: contrast, variety, repetition
- representation form: two-dimensional portraits and self-portraits
