Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 10 Jasper Cropsey Questions: |
Look Questions
1. Look for clues in the painting to answer the following questions: What season is it? What time of day is it? What is the weather like?
2. If you could enter this LANDSCAPE painting, where would you enter? What do you see in the FOREGROUND of this painting? What is in the MIDDLEGROUND? What is in the BACKGROUND?
3. Do you see any people in this painting? How has Cropsey shown human presence in the Catskills?
4. How does the artist emphasize the vastness of nature in this LANDSCAPE painting?
5. What colors does Cropsey use in this painting? Which of these are WARM COLORS? Which of these are COOL COLORS? Which color is used the most? The least? In which area are the colors the brightest? Darkest? In which are they the softest? How did the artist distribute color to help create the illusion of depth?
6. What has Cropsey included to show the passage of time in this painting?
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