BACKGROUND:

Giuseppe was the court painter to Maximillian II, the ruler of Bohemia, the Holy Roman Empire and Hungary in the 1500s. He is famous for his portraits, in which he used images of fruit, animals, plants, etc. to create the features of the faces of his portrait subjects.

THE ASSIGNMENT:

Today, you will be creating a similar portrait, of yourself. Locate at least 15 different images from our magazine collection and cut them out. These images should relate to you and your interests in life. DO NOT cut out images of faces or body parts! DO NOT use any school inappropriate images, such as drug, alcohol or gun related pictures! (This will result in a ZERO on this assignment!)

Using these images, arrange them on paper and glue them so that you create a self-portrait. Your image should show your head, face, eyes, lips, hair, etc., all created from the various images that you have located.

In addition, you will have to use images to create a background to your portrait, please make sure that your background is also created from varying images as well. (For instance, do not cut out a big picture of mountains and glue it onto your page as a mountain background.)

Use markers as you need to outline your images, but not to draw or color your portrait in any way.

You MUST cover the entire surface of the page with images, I do not want to see any underlying paper when you are done.

Using letters and words found cut from magazines, give your work the following title:

“Self Portrait of yourname”

DUE DATE:

This assignment will be due next class period and will be worth 50 points!