Enduring Idea: Displaying Power and Status.
Rationale: It is important for student to understand how people have used images to display their power and status and why displaying that power can affect the way people view each other.
Artist: Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps.
Key Concepts: Power and Status can be expressed through appearance and portraiture.
Essential Questions: How have artists shown that a person has power or status?
Unit Objectives: Students will show that they understand how artists can show how people have power and status by creating a portrait that does this.
Lesson: Show students Kehinde Wiley's painting Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps and have them compare it to the painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques- Louis David. Discuss with the students how David portrayed Napoleon. What did David do to show Napoleon's power? Why did Wiley would choose this portrait to use in his painting?
Project: Have a selection of other portraits of people of power. Have students choose one work to use in a portrait and have them choose someone they know personally. Students will then create a portrait of that person using elements from the portrait that show the person as a person of power.
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