Transcript Lesson Eighteen Powerpoint File

Lesson Eighteen
Integrated Concepts
• Language Arts: descriptive language, setting, oral
language
• Social Studies: landforms, land use, climate
• Visual Art: color, line, shape, texture, space, value
Take a few minutes to study this landscape painting.
What are some things you notice about the painting?
Where do you think this scene is located? Tell why.
What landforms and natural features can you identify?
What can you predict about the climate and season from
evidence in the painting?
Now spend a few minutes looking at this painting.
What do you notice about this painting?
Where could we find a scene that looks like
this painting?
What details in this painting
provide evidence about the
location?
Where have you seen a
place that looks similar to
this painting?
Can you identify the crop in
this field? How can you tell?
What evidence shows
the season in this painting?
Let’s think about how the artists created these paintings.
How would you describe how each artist used color?
How does each artist give the viewer a sense of space?
Can you describe how the artists showed the texture
of plants, rocks, and water?
Notice how each artist used value in their painting.
Value describes how dark or light each area looks.
Can you point out the very dark (high value) areas in each
paintings?
Where are the lightest (low value) areas in each painting?
Where do you see lines in each of these paintings?
Look for straight, curved, broken, and uneven lines.
Lines are sometimes seen as:
• outlines or edges of shapes
• repeated marks, shapes or colors
• paths, roads, fences, rows
Look for geometric shapes in these paintings. In paintings,
the shapes may be a little uneven or imperfect. For example,
there are three thin triangle shapes in the rocks just to
the left of the waterfall.
Point out any squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, or
other geometric shapes you can find. Also look for three
dimensional shapes like spheres, cones, rectangular prisms.
Which painting would you choose as a setting for a story?
Which would you choose to write a poem about?
What are some words you might use in describing the setting
you chose?
What kind of story or poem would you write?
Information about the art and the artists
Title: “Falls in Cherokee County”
Title: “Tayloe House”
Artist/Dates: William Frerichs,
American, 1829-1905
Artist/Dates: Francis Speight,
American, 1896-1989
Medium: oil on canvas
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 22” x 36”
Size: 30.75” x 34.75”
Date: 1971
What else would you like to know about the art or the artists?
How can you find out?