Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 15 John F. Peto Questions: |
Look Questions Teacher Answer Key
1. What are some of the objects you see? What are the objects on? Where do you see numbers? (Dates above the picture, columns of numbers below the picture, on the money below the picture.)
2. Do the objects in this painting look old or new? How can you tell? (The wood is nicked, papers are torn, paint is abraded, the color of the paint has faded where exposed to the elements, lock is rusty and broken.)
3. Who is the man in the picture? Find his nickname. Find his birth and death dates.
4. What colors does Peto use the most in this painting? (Green and gray.) What other colors do you see? (Brown, tan, white, black.) Are these bright colors or dull colors? Are most of the colors COOL or WARM?
5. What shape is this painting? (A rectangle.) Where else do you see this shape within the picture? How many rectangles do you count in the painting? (Fifteen, or sixteen if you count the painting itself.) What other shapes do you see?
6. How does the artist make this image appear
THREE-DIMENSIONAL?
(The nails, photo, coins, and raised numbers all appear
to cast shadows.) The term
RAISED RELIEF
refers to an image carved to stand out from its background.
Where do you see the illusion of raised relief? (The date
1809.) The term
SUNKEN RELIEF
refers to an image carved into its background. Where do you
see the illusion of sunken relief? (The letters ABE, the
date 1865.)
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