Lesson Eight

Integrated Concepts• Language Arts: inference, descriptive language,

character’s feelings

• Social Studies: homes and communities, disasters• Visual Art: color, texture, light, feelings, art vocabulary

Take a few minutes to observe this painting very carefully.

Describe what you can see.

What objects can you identify easily?

What are the parts of the image that you cannot recognize?

What do you notice in this artwork about:• light?• space?• color?• texture?

What emotions or feelings do you have when you lookat this painting? Can you explain why you feel that way?

What do you think could be happening in this painting?

What evidence can you show that supports your opinion?

•Sometimes painters use materials that are not really paint

•What can you predict what this painter may have used?

•What describing words would you use to tell about the texture of the surface of this painting?

•Can you imagine sounds and smells that might be part of this scene? Explain why you think that.

•How could you describe the sounds and smells so exactly that others will be able to imagine them too?

•Do you think this is a narrative (story telling) painting

•What story could you tell that would explain everything we see in this painting?

Here is another kind of artwork called a mezzotint.

What do you notice about this image?

Let’s compare and contrast these two artworks.

Pay close attention to:• color• shape• texture• light• subject or main idea• mood

Information about the art and the artists

Title: “House March 2”

Artist/Dates: Donald Sultan, American, 1951

Medium: latex & tar on tile

Size: 96” x 96”

Date: 1990

What else would you like to know about the art or the artist?How can you find out?

Title: “421 Nights; Welcome”

Artist/Dates: Donald Furst

Medium: Mezzotint

Size: 4” x 5”

Date: 1995