What is your favorite spot in the house?

What does it tell us about you?Artists have always used their own spaces as inspiration for artwork

Fillmore Arts Center • Distance Learning Ms Valerie Montana • valerie.montana@k12.dc.gov

Observe and Analyze the artwork on the next few slides

Spend 30 seconds viewing the painting

What do you notice?

What do you wonder?

Henri MatisseThe Open Window, 1905

Henri MatisseThe Dessert: Harmony in Red), 1908

What do you observeWhat do you wonder?

Vincent Van Gogh Bedroom, 1888

What do you observeWhat do you wonder?

Mary Cassatt Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878

What do you observeWhat do you wonder?

Annie Lee Sunday Evening Radio

What do you observeWhat do you wonder?

Did you notice?

• Why do you think the artists chose to draw/paint what they did?

• Did the artists use realistic colors or did they change the colors

• Which pictures had people in them?

• Which pictures didn’t have people?

• How does having people or not having people change the mood of the picture?

• What was your favorite picture and why?

• Choose your favorite spot in the house that you have been spending time in since distance learning began.

• Write about why you chose this spot

• Draw this place.

• Use any drawing materials

• Color it with realistic colors or change them to add to the mood of the picture

• Email me your picture and writing! valerie.montana@k12.dc.gov

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