Portrait art has been recongnized as early as the Ancient Egyptians, who creating images telling stories about their leaders an people, ancient Greek made statues honoring their gods and ideals. In the Middle Ages, the term portrait was created to label the style of artwork which captures the essence of the person or people in it. Portrait drawing and painting was renewed in the Renaissance and showed images of people and families posing for specific works which caputed their likenesses and preserved their memories. For hundres of years, if you wanted a portrait, before photography was a thing, one of the primary jobs for the artist was to make portraits of people. Fast forward to through history the invention of photography in the 1826, portrait studios opened and make getting photographs popular, and easy to obtain for most families. In our present day, portrait arts have changed even more and now with the digital cameras and devices , portraits can be made on a phone or computer using digital photography tools. Some Artsists, duirng this time have found new and inventive ways to create images of people, with colorful abstractions and cartooned images. While other artists have continued to paint images of poeple which carry on the traditions of reallistic art. Thinking about the long history of art, what do you feel makes a portrait important in today's society? What type of portrait or reasons for getting a portrait do you think people think about?

50 points if you answer 1) why should a goal be time limited? a) to create a sense of urgency b) to create significance c) to provide exact reasons d) to provide benchmarks 2) what term is used for a point of reference that allows you to measure the progress you have made? a) a problem b) a plan c) a benchmark d) a goal 3) what should you do when you experience challenges in accomplishing your goal? a) give up on it altogether b) quit thinking about it until the challenge resolves itself c) do your best work through the challenge d) set it aside until a later date 4) karen wants to get her drivers license in the next three weeks. what is this an example of? a) a plan b) a problem c) a short term goal d) a long term goal 5) fred wants to graduate from high school with a 3.5 gpa in the next year. what is this an example of? a) a plan b) a problem c) a short term goal d) a long term goal 6) kira is working on her goal to get her cna certificate. she is moving toward that goal each day by working on smaller goals in a specific order. what is this called? a) a problem b) a progress c) a time limit d) a goal 7) why should a goal be specific? a) to create sense of urgency b) to create significance c) to provide exact reasons d) to provide benchmarks 8) what should be true of a goal? a) it should be vague and nonspecific b) it should be challenging to you c) it should be unrealistic d) it should be in others control 9) why should a goal be relevant? a) to create sense of urgency b) to create significance c) to provide exact reasons d) to provide benchmarks 10) juan wants to be on time to class every day for the next month. what is this an example of? a) a plan b) a problem c) a short term goal d) a long term goal

What types of visual art mediums are heavily based on observation?

Why did david smith burnish the surface of his work cubi xix?