Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 25 Grace Hartigan Questions: |
Look Questions
1. Find the following: a smiling face, oranges, an apple, a bottle, a standing person, a pineapple, piano keys. Which was the easiest to find? Which was the most difficult?
2. Grace Hartigan uses many kinds of lines in this painting. Find at least one of each of the following kinds of lines: straight, curved, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, thick, thin, jagged. Where do you see lines formed by the edges of two colors meeting?
3. Where do you see PRIMARY COLORS? Where do you see their COMPLEMENTARY COLORS? What colors do you see that were created by mixing red and some other color? How many different SHADES of blue do you see? How many different shades of green do you see?
4. Where do you see BRUSHSTROKES applied with a wide brush? Where do you see smaller brushstrokes? Find some long strokes. Find some short strokes.
5. Where do you see paint layered over other paint? Where do you see white underpainting that the artist did not cover up with color? Can you find an area where the paint looks dry and thinly applied? Where do you see dripped paint?
6. COMPOSITION is the arrangement of shapes, forms, colors, and other visual elements to in a work of art. In paintings, centralized compositions focus attention on one important part. All-over compositions treat all parts of the painting equally. What kind of composition do you see in Billboard? Explain your response.
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