Pop Culture Portraits — SARAh LESSER

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POP CULTURE PORTRAITS

Art I students explore our relationships with popular culture through portraiture, art historical examples, value/contour studies, trace monotype image transfer, and collaborative processes. Subject matter and installation designs are democratically chosen by students.

Art I students are in grades 9-12, and have typically had little to no formal visual art education, previously. Assessments include critique, self-evaluation of project parameters, and written reflection. Students update their personal portfolio websites with documentation of each project.

Resource Sampler

Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Portrait), 2009 (MCA Chicago)
“The History of the World According to Kerry James Marshall” (MCA Chicago)
Vigée Le Brun, Self Portrait, 1800 (Khan Academy)
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962 (Tate)
“Warhol, Marilyn Diptych” (Khan Academy)
Andy Warhol, Triple Elvis, 1963 (SFMOMA)
“JR in Tecate” (artist website)
“As Boy Peers Curiously Over Border Wall, His Artist Asks: ‘What Is He Thinking?’” (NPR)
Kehinde Wiley, President Barack Obama, 2018 (National Portrait Gallery)
“Kehinde Wiley’s Obama Portrait Controversy Proves Americans Struggle to Engage with Art” (NBC)
Amy Sherald, First Lady Michelle Obama, 2018 (National Portrait Gallery)
“The Hidden Political Message of Michelle Obama’s Portrait Dress” (Politico)