Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 26 Bob Thompson Questions: |
Look Questions
1. What is going on in this painting? How many figures are there? How many of them are children? How many red figures do you count? Blue? Pink? Yellow? Red-violet? This painting celebrates a singer named Nina Simone. Which figure represents the singer? How can you tell? Name at least three ways that the artist, Bob Thompson, has drawn attention to her.
2. What kind of day is it in this picture? How can you tell? What might the temperature be?
3. Name five things from nature in this scene. Does the scene look natural? What about it looks natural? What does not look natural?
4. An outline or CONTOUR line is a line that describes the outside edge of an object or figure. Where do you see outlines in this picture? Does it look like Thompson painted the outlines or the figures themselves first? What makes you think so? Does the outline method make the figures appear flat or THREE-DIMENSIONAL? What else about these figures makes them look so flat?
5. What object is farthest away from us in this painting? How can you tell? Which figure is closest? How can you tell?
6. Thompson based his COMPOSITION on a painting by a French painter who regularly used triangles in his pictures to give them stability. Thompson has also used triangles. Where do you see triangles in this composition? Which of the figure groups form triangles? Is this picture calm or lively? How has Thompson created a lively composition even though he has used so many triangles?
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