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Viewing
& Responding to Art
Various
ways of looking at Art
Select a picture from
an art collection
or discuss and anyalyze
the art work done by yourself or others in your class.
Questions to Stimulate
Discussion and Analysis
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| First Reactions:
Consider first impressions. What strikes you as interesting? Unusual?
What attracts you to the work.
Meanings:
What does this picture seem to be about? Does the work have
a theme? Does the art work tell a story? Explain what you actually
see in the work that makes you say this.
Visual Content:
Naming things is the usual way people
describe pictures. This may work on realistic kinds of art.
But how do you describe the art that is abstract? An abstract
or unrealistic picture is full of visual material though it
is not subject to name identification. Try to use visual terms
to describe the content.
Form and Space.
Is the art designed for 2 dimensional or 3 dimensional space?
Hint: 2 dimension space has a flat and
cut out look such as a silhouette.3 dimensional art has modeling,
roundness, depth.
Looking at "performance"
skills and methods
Consider the technique the artist used. What
can you point to that seems to indicate a good application of
skills. (Each art form has its own set of skills.) Can you see
a place where "performance" is at a high level. Consider for
example, musicians who play with skill or figure skaters who
skate with skill.
Design Features:
Design introduces the idea of organization,
variety, harmony, contrast, etc. Design is about relationships
of parts to each other. Visual Elements in art use terms
like "shape" or "color". But in design we get into such effects
like "rhythms" cause be repeating shapes or "contrasts" caused
by the colors black and red.
Describe a contrast
feature>
Describe a rhythm feature>
Describe a variety feature>
Is unity achieved in
the work? How?
Is repetition used by
the artist to achieve harmony?
What about parts which
don't go well together. Trying to make certain pieces fit
in is the hardest thing in art making. Just about every art
piece has something in it that doesn't 'jell'. Can you find
one of these areas and suggest a remedy?
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Learning
to Look at ART
Your Name _____________________________
Class/Hour______________________________
Choose two of the Art Pictures on
display. Use the information checklists below to help you to write about
your reactions to the pictures. Use one work sheet for each picture you
use. A third painting may be analyzed for extra credit.
This work sheet goes with picture # ________,
by _______________, called ______________
1. In Your own words: What do you find interesting
about this picture?
2. What does the artist try to do in this
picture? (More than one may apply)
a. Tries to record an actual happening or
event
b. Tries to record an imaginary happening
or event
c. Tries to express a special feeling or
emotion
d. Express the effects of color or form in
an interesting and pleasing way
3. The picture images probably come from:
a. A personal experience
b. An event from history or literature
c. A random or accidental happening by the
artist's hand
d. The use of symbols which represent other
things or ideas.
4. The artist's use of detail in the picture:
a. The picture seems detailed to me
b. The artist seems to avoid details
c. Breaks up the main objects with lots of
detail
d. Draws carefully with a brush to make details
e. Making details very decorative or ‘designy'
5. The artist's use of color:
a. Emphasizing very rich bright colors
b. Limits color choices and uses only a few
select colors
c. Does not try to match the colors of nature
very closely
d. Seems to distort natural colors or choose
odd ones instead
6. The artist use of space:
a. a deep 3-dimensional space, it seems to
go back into the distance
b. space is shallow or flat, it does not
show much depth
c. there is a sense that objects are cut
outs
7. What does the artist seem to be interested
in? (You supply the proper choice)
8. What can this picture teach you,
by making you aware of something?
Subject; Composition; Technique;
9. I rate this picture as(1-10) Imagination,
Meaning, Skills, Composition
Overall interest rating: (1-10)
10. Why __________________________________________________________
Re. Character:
What is a trait that you value highly in a friend?
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