Revealing Self Portrait
AP Studio
Project Overview
• Oftentimes, when one thinks of creating a self portrait, their end goal is to try
to represent what the look like on the outside. While you are welcome to
create a realistic self portrait, I challenge you to think outside the box and
reveal more to us- the viewer- than just what you look like.
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Does it need to be realistic?
Do you want it to be realistic?
Can it be a PART of you that is important to you?
What DO you NEED to SHOW to make it WORK? (ex. I am a dancer so I will show my feet)
What ‘extra’s do I need to have in the work other than me- to make my personal
meaning more effective?
Reflection Questions TO CONSIDER BEFORE STARTING
• What do you WANT to SHOW the Viewer?
• What do you want to EXPRESS for YOURSELF?
• What Medium/ Mediums Do you want to use?
• Do you want to Create in: Dry/Wet/Mixed/found/Collage
• What surface area do you want to create on: Newspaper/textured
paper/ cardboard/ watercolor paper/ canvas
• How about Color or BW or a combo
• What about creating out of found objects?
• What about creating in the style of your favorite artist?
• What can ANGLE or POINT of VIEW say about the work? (Seriously
Consider this)
Regardless of the path you take, your final needs to….
1. Have some part of your body represented in it
2. Be a reflection of who you are
3. Be created in a meaningful and expressive way, unique to you
Next Class: Have a start to your project development
In 2 Classes: Have project development completed and be prepared to start on
your final
Project Development Requirements:
A 2 (or more) page spread showing idea development focusing on the idea of “A Revealing
Self Portrait”
• The pages should be full and…
• 3 or more visual images of historical and/or contemporary artists that you admire their interpretation of
the concept of Portraiture (self or other)
• A breakdown of the emotional response and why you have that response of each image (media, mark
making, setting, other objects, materials used etc)
• A breakdown of what design concepts are being utilized within each image (contrast, color, angle,
cropping, chiarcusco, etc)
• Notes and reflections on how these works will influence your art making
• The Reflection questions, and your thoughts/reaction to them, and HOW you will utilize these concepts
into your visual conceptual idea of Revealing Self Portrait
• Your brainstorm (visual and literal) list of how to complete a revealing self-portrait, along with questions
as to what that means and how you want to incorporate that concept into your art- wirte, sketch, etcthere is no wrong way
• IF you are creating in the style of another artist, I need to see SEVERAL images of their work
• An initial concept of your project idea with preliminary sketches, initial conceptual development, and
supplies and materials needed (2D wet, dry or mixed media) on recommended toned surface area
See the following Variety of examples of
Portraiture
As always, I encourage images inspiration and references, but all
individual work needs to be created by you and be unique to you.
You man use these examples as an inspiration, but remember
copyright.
• http://media-cacheec0.pinimg.com/736x/
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• http://www.pinterest.com/pin/575053446139613751/
• http://www.pinterest.com/pin/535154368191985513/
• http://www.schimmelart.com/collection.htm
• http://www.pinterest.com/pin/3
91320655092049685/
Rosa Parks Art- Be inspired 
• http://philinthecircle.com/Interpretation_number_1.html
Portrait Artists for Reference- (Pg 1)
Peter Campus,
Davide Cantoni,
Chuck Close,
Susanna Coffey,
Daniela Comani,
Gohar Dashti,
Robert De Niro Sr.,
Aron Demetz,
Sussan Deyhim,
Edwin Walter
Dickinson,
David Dixon,
Marcel Duchamp,
Anh Duong,
Asher B. Durand,
Thomas Eakins,
Charles Loring
Elliott,
Marina Abramović,
Ivan Le Lorraine
Albright,
Boushra Almutawakel,
Vincenzo Amato,
William Anastasi,
Lyle Ashton Harris,
John Baldessari,
Barry X Ball,
Will Barnet,
Jay Batlle,
Cecilia Beaux,
Thomas Hart Benton,
Ellen Berkenblit,
Ernest L. Blumenschein,
Mary Shepard Greene
Blumenschein,
Umberto Boccioni,
Mel Bochner,
John Frazee,
Miguel Angel Garcia,
Rachel Garrard,
Shadi Ghadirian,
Fereidoun Ghaffari,
Amirali Ghasemi,
Gilbert and George,
Kathleen Gilje,
Allen Ginsberg,
William Gropper,
George Grosz,
Samia Halaby,
Lilian Wescott Hale,
Bendix Harms,
Mona Hatoum,
Ghazaleh Hedayat,
Julie Heffernan,
Daniel Huntington,
Peter Hurd,
Rana Javadi,
Eastman Johnson,
Titus Kaphar,
James Karales,
Herbert Katzman,
Nadia Khawaja,
William King,
(Scupture)
Everett Raymond
Kinstler,
Jeff Koons,
Jacob Lawrence,
Hughie Lee-Smith,
Saul Leiter,
Annette Lemieux,
William Villalongo,
Andy Warhol,
William Wegman,
Ai Weiwei,
Hannah Wilke,
Bill Witt,
Beatrice Wood,
Francesca Woodman,
Andrew Newell
Wyeth,
James Browning
Wyeth,
Newell Covers Wyeth,
Inass Yassin,
Michele Zalopany
Richard Nonas,
Tameka Norris,
Toyin Odutola,
Portrait Artists for Reference- (Pg 2)
Florio Puenter,
Luisa Rabbia,
Arnulf Rainer,
Ellen Emmet Rand,
Annie Ratti,
Robert
Rauschenberg,
Charles Sabba,
Salvo,
Paul Starrett Sample,
John Singer Sargent,
Peter Saul,
Eugene Francis
Savage,
Salvatore Scarpitta,
Andres Serrano,
Jonathan Shahn,
Cindy Sherman,
Mary Fairchild
MacMonnies Low,
Vivian Maier,
Piero Manzoni,
Carlo Maria Mariani,
Ana Mendieta,
Ivan Mestrovich,
Felice Waldo Howell
Mixter,
Randy Moore,
Walter Moroder,
Samuel F.B. Morse,
Bruce Nauman,
Senga Nengudi,
Shirin Neshat,
Rona Pondick,
Edith Mitchill Prellwitz,
Vera Tamari,
Vladimir Tamari,
Wayne Thiebaud,
Anne Thulin,
George Clair Tooker,
Iké Udé,
Walter Ufer,
Carlos Vega,
Barkley L. Hendricks,
Walter Pach,
Philip Pearlstein,
Robert Phillipp,
Howardena Pindell,
Sylvia Plimack
Mangold,
Dove Bradshaw,
Colleen Browning,
Brian Calvin,
William Arthur Smith,
Raphael Soyer,
Tal Shochat,
Jessica Shokrian,
Louis Faurer,
Robert Feintuch,
Carlo Ferraris,
Stefano Fioresi,
Gertrude Horsford Fiske,
Saul Fletcher,
Catherine Opie,
Dennis Oppenheim,