Hemingway+Biography+Project

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Artists or portraitists use a number of techniques to depict their subject's appearance and character, including:
 * presenting the subject with a different physical form
 * presenting the subject in a significant place or doing a significant activity
 * giving the subject a different identity to emphasize a specific characteristic
 * including objects illustrating the subject's place in society
 * including symbolic images to describe a person's life
 * surrounding the subject with real and significant objects from the subject's life

First, look through the Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time online exhibit. Take note of how Ernest Hemingway is portrayed in each of the pictures.

Next, choose one portrait from each era of Hemingway's life. (Beginning, Middle, Later) For each portrait, note the following: portrait title, date, and artist; why you chose that portrait; does the portrait show the public or private Hemingway (and how you know); and what technique(s) the artist used to reveal Hemingway's character.

Finally, note what changes you notice in Hemingway over time. What traits stay the same?