The Walker Art Gallery’s Amazing Tudor portraits Workshop

A picture paints a thousand words. But what is the message? The Tudors harnessed the power of the monarchy through portraiture. Symbolism and some stretching of the truth went a long way in cementing their place in history. Invention and innovation has meant that how we produce images has changed but what about what we use them for?

Join us on a journey around the Walker Art Gallery as we discover how portraits developed over time, learn to decode the messaging within them and ask the question, ‘in the modern world do we still need artists to create pictures of people?’

This workshop will give students the opportunity to discuss and observe paintings by some of the greatest portrait artists in history and will inspire them to create their own perfect-for-them portraits back in the class.

Students will:

• Learn the difference between a portrait and a self-portrait.
• Explore how portraiture has changed over time.
• Develop skills in how to read paintings to find clues about the subject.
• Learn that artists manipulate different materials and mediums to create portrait artworks.
• Take part in a practise-a-portrait drawing activity.

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