A Portrait in Time
“A Portrait in Time” highlights artists working in isolation; students look at how these artists captured their unique experiences of a particular moment in time, and are ultimately challenged to create a portrait that captures their own experience.
Essential Question: How do artists create art that communicates their experience? “A Portrait in Time” highlights artists working in isolation; students look at how these artists captured their unique experiences of a particular moment in time, and are ultimately challenged to create a portrait that captures their own experience.
Good for:
All Ages
Student Examples
“It’s about imagination and mine is I-magic-nation!”
Paul A, 7
“My self-portrait is from a long time ago when I was 1 and it’s the time when the snake came into our garage and my dad needed to catch it and take it to the forest. I made a snake, me, my mom, and my dad, and I’m also making a bucket to show the bucket he used to catch the snake. The bucket is made of cupcake containers. I chose that because I really like snakes a lot and it was when I lived in San Fransico when I moved there.”
Samuel H, 7
“It’s me with some headphones on and a bucket of fries with a tiny little ketchup bottle. I made it because I like to listen to music and I like french fries. It was very hard to get the headphones to stay on but I taped it so I’m happy with it now. And I decorated it with buttons and stuff at the bottom because I liked them. I used some googley eyes and I wrote my name on it.”