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Self Portrait Education Kit

 
Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary

Available as 2 PDF files
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Cover of the Self Portrait Education kit, part 1

Section 1: Self-portraits (575 Kb)
• Introduction
• Commentary
• Themes
 - Artist at the easel
 - Playing with mirrors
 - Artist as woman
 - Role-play
 - Between life and death
 - Specialist of self-portraits
 - The body of paint
 - Significant others
What is a self-portrait?
• A brief history: Process, technologies and the self-portrait
• Artist List
• Timeline: self-portraits in context
• Exhibition floor plan
• AGNSW collection connections
• Glossary
• Selected references


Cover of Self Portrait Education Kit, part 2

Section 2: Syllabus focus (545 Kb)
• Works in profile (includes commentary, K-6 looking and artmaking activities, cross-KLA links, and 7-12 framing questions & artmaking activities)
• Artist at the easel
• Playing with mirrors
• Artist as woman
• Role-play
• Between life and death
• Specialist self-portraits
• The body of paint
• Significant others
• Quotes on self-portraiture

 

Also available:
Exhibition text panels
(PDF file, 268 KB)

 

 

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