Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 16 Robert Koehler Questions: |
Look Questions Teacher Key
1. What is going on in this picture? Is this a modern scene or one from the past? How can you tell? (The clothing, streetcar, horse and carriage.) How are the clothes different from those we wear today? Which mode of transportation depicted here do we still see today? This is an old picture of Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. Can you tell this is Minneapolis simply by looking at this picture? Why or why not?
2. What time of day is shown here? How can you tell?
3. What details would you include in a weather report for the day shown in this painting? Is it still raining? How can you tell? How can you tell if it is breezy? How can you tell whether it is cold or not?
4. What colors dominate this painting? (Grays, browns, flesh, and bluish-purple.) Are they dull or bright? WARM or COOL?
5. What is in the FOREGROUND of this painting? What objects do you see in the BACKGROUND? Are the objects in the foreground or the background larger? Where do the buildings look darkest? In what part of the painting do the buildings appear blue? (In the background.)
6. Where do you see natural light in this painting? (The light that manages to break through the clouds and reflect off of the streets; the glow of light produced by the man lighting his pipe.) Where in this painting do you see artificial light? (Light in the library and church windows; light on the streetcar.)
7. Koehler, like the
IMPRESSIONIST
painters he admired, used loosely painted
BRUSHSTROKES in this
painting. Where can you see such brushstrokes? (Tree
branches, sidewalk, street, clouds, etc.)
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