Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 23 Clementine Hunter Questions: |
Look Questions Teacher Answer Key
1. What do you see in this painting? (Women, trees, pot, house, clothesline.) What are the women doing? (Washing clothes.) How can you tell? (Clothesline behind them gives a clue; two appear to be scrubbing; one is stirring something in a big pot filled with suds.) What are these women wearing? (Dresses, aprons, hats, shoes.) Why might they be wearing hats? (To keep the sun from their eyes and faces.)
2. What colors do you see? (Red, blue, white, black, brown, green, yellow, and pink.) Are the colors bright or dull? Did the artist mix/blend many colors? (No.) How can you tell? Where did she mix colors? (In the sky; in one hat; in the darker red dress.)
3. How has Hunter suggested that some things are farther away than others? (By placing them above those things that are nearer.) 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? (The women and two trees.) What is in the background? (The tree and the house.)
4. Clementine Hunter did not aim
to paint a
NATURALISTIC scene.
What parts of her painting appear least naturalistic?
(Flatness of figures, faces, trees, some of the colors,
such as the bright yellow fields.) 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? (Gray hair on center woman, patch
on apron, bands on hats, clothing on the line, pot and
scrubbing boards for washing, pipe smoked by center woman,
details of the African House.)
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