Designed to engage audiences with portraiture, this online education kit includes Create, Engage, Investigate and Reflect activities and ideas responding to portraits in the collection for Primary and Secondary students. CREATE: Art-making activities to build confidence in exploring Portraiture. ENGAGE: Talking, debating and discussing artworks
Portraiture can tell us about how we see people. Portraits often show us what a person looks like, but they can also capture an idea of a person or what they stand for. Portraits can also tell us how a person wants to be seen, and capture a particular mood that the sitter is experiencing. Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and private persons, or they may be inspired by admiration or affection for the subject. 1 : picture especially : a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face 2 : a sculptured figure : bust 3 : a graphic portrayal in words portrait 2 of 2 adjective : of, relating to, or being a rectangular document having the vertical dimension longer than the horizontal dimension switching from landscape to portrait mode