Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 23 Clementine Hunter Questions: |
Look Questions
1. What do you see in this painting? What are the women doing? How can you tell? What are these women wearing? Why might they be wearing hats?
2. What colors do you see? Are the colors bright or dull? Did the artist mix/blend many colors? How can you tell? Where did she mix colors?
3. How has Hunter suggested that some things are farther away than others? FOREGROUND in a work of art is the area closest to the viewer. BACKGROUND is the area farthest away from the viewer. What is in the foreground? What is in the background?
4. Clementine Hunter did not aim to paint a NATURALISTIC scene. What parts of her painting appear least naturalistic? Nonetheless, she includes many details in this painting that tell about the time and place in which it was made. What are some of the details she includes?
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