Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 25 Grace Hartigan Questions: |
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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? (Orange is a mixture of red and yellow, pink is a mixture of red and white, purple is a mixture of red and blue.) 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? (Purple patch on right, pink and orange streaks in upper half, etc.) Where do you see smaller brushstrokes? (Piano keys below purple patch, sea green in upper right, green strokes on bottle, etc.) Find some long strokes. Find some short strokes.
5. Where do you see paint layered over other paint? (Throughout.) Where do you see white underpainting that the artist did not cover up with color? (Various spots, including the upper left corner and around the figure in the lower left.) Can you find an area where the paint looks dry and thinly applied? (Lavender area near bottom.) 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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