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make something with your hands

Exploring the Portrait/Self-Portriat

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

narrative

Michelangelo

Emma Mankin

Nelly Nassif

Rob Huegel

Bing Zhang

Bing Zhang

Peggy Millar

hand to foreheadsuggests thought

Cynthia Kanios

Max Beckmann

Matisse

Janet Benjamin

unusual

Botticelli

Botticelli

pointing

Leonardo

props

Max Beckmann

Kat Mergens

Ilya Repin

Max Beckmann

Otto Dix

Edvard Munch

Steve Chapman

Take away the hand …and you take away someone’s freedom.

Arshile Gorky self-portrait as a child with mother (from an Ellis Island photograph)

Structure of the Hand

Nicolas de Largillierre, 1715

the hand is as big

as the face

Carolyn Wales

Kathe Kollwitz

right size intentionally too small

hands appear bigger as they get closer

John Reamer

Gene Faktorovich

first break it down into geometric shapes

Find the rectangle

exaggerate the wrist

August Macke

exaggerate the geometry of the fingers

Cynthia Kanios (detail)

Steve Chapman (detail)

Steve Chapman (detail)

Emma Mankin

foreshortening

fingers like “hoses” coming toward you

Michelangelo

Practice!

Leonardo da Vinci