Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 12 Cadzi Cody Questions: |
Look Questions Teacher Answer Key
1. What material is this picture painted on? (Animal hide, elk hide.) How can you tell? (The shape.) What parts of the elk's body can you see? (Neck, body, tail, legs.) What do you see in the painting that suggests to you how the animal hide might have been obtained? (Bows and arrows, men hunting on horseback.)
2. Name the animals that you see in the painting. (Horses, bison, eagle.) How many human figures do you see? How many of these are women? (One.) How can you recognize the woman? (She carries a baby on her back.) What activity are the men on horseback involved in? (Bison hunt.) What are they using to hunt the bison? How many bison have been killed? What are the men in the center doing? (Dancing, drumming.)
3. Where do you see a bison being butchered? A man placing a hide over a horse's back? A man with a long feather headdress? A tepee? A baby bison? A pole with a bison head on it? An eagle design? A man riding a red horse? Men dancing with feathers in their hair?
4. What colors does Cadzi Cody use? What color are the horses? Where do you see spotted horses? How did the artist show they are spotted? (He left areas of the hide unpainted to look like spots.) What colors are the hunters' shirts?
5. Where do you see CONTOUR LINES? (They are used to describe everything in this painting.) Where do you see straight lines? (Only in the tepees and on the pole.)
6. Is this painting active or still? How does Cadzi Cody suggest movement and energy? (All of the figures circle around the central scene; the gestures, poses, and movements of the hunters and animals suggest action; figures move in different directions; the black bison and colorful horses keep one's eyes moving across the hide surface.)
7. Look carefully at the human figures painted on the
hide. How did Cadzi Cody represent
people? Did he paint them as they really looked? What parts
of the human figures did he show? What parts did he leave
out? Does each person look different or do they all look the
same? Look at the horses painted on the hide. Does each
horse look different, or do they all look the same?
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