Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 18 Georgia O'Keeffe Questions: |
Look Questions Teacher Answer Key
1. What is pictured here? (Buildings at night.) How many buildings do you see? What time of day is it? (Night.) What clues in the painting tell you this? (Moon, dark sky, street lamp, title of the painting.)
2. Is this painting NATURALISTIC or ABSTRACT? How can you tell? Which parts of the painting are simplified? What details has O'Keeffe left out of the picture? Which aspects of this abstract painting appear most naturalistic?
3. What shapes do you see? (Rectangles and circles.) Where do you see them? (Buildings, street lamp, moon.) Where do you see a shape that is not GEOMETRIC? (Irregular shape formed by that part of the sky visible between the buildings.)
4. What are the differences in color, line, shape, and SCALE between the human-made objects and nature in City Night?
5. Where would you have to be to see these skyscrapers as
O'Keeffe did? (On the
ground.) What clues in the painting tell you this?
(The tops of the buildings are considerably smaller than
the bottoms, indicating that they are farther away from the
viewer.) In addition to point of view, what else has the
artist done to emphasize the height of the skyscrapers?
(The long thin gray lines emphasize the height of the
buildings; the buildings dwarf the moon.)
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