Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 10 Jasper Cropsey Questions: |
Look Questions Teacher Answer Key
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? (On the ledge to the right.) What do you see in the FOREGROUND of this painting? (High rocky platform, rocks, live and dead trees.) What is in the MIDDLEGROUND? (Lake, mountain house, forest.) What is in the BACKGROUND? (Mountain, valley, sky.)
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? (Landscape and sky each take up about half of the painting; he establishes a FOREGROUND, MIDDLEGROUND, and BACKGROUND that create a sense of deep space; he changes colors to lead viewers' eyes into space; he uses ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE.)
5. What colors does Cropsey use in this painting? (Browns, golds, oranges, and reds; blues and grays in the sky.) 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? (The dying
tree in the
FOREGROUND alludes to
life and death.)
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