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Lesson #4. People all over the world, in every culture and in every period of history, make art objects.
People in other countries make art just as we do! As you can see from the map below, the world is a very large place. Think of other people from other countries and their art.
What kinds of subjects do you think people from other countries make? What would they paint or sculpt? Do you think people from other countries do similar types of art, or is their art different?
Do you think the art from different countries is similar or different from each other?
If you say "similar," you're right!
Many people around the world have the same experiences, such as having families, work, play, school, pets, and festivals, etc. So the subjects of art work in these areas can be thought of as similar.
If you say "different," you're also right!
There are also characteristics that would make art work belong to a certain culture, country, or part of the world. These would be things like costumes and clothing, what people look like in certain areas of the world, what people would be doing that belongs mostly in that culture, and buildings and land characteristics.
Try
This!
Look at the following paintings. Look at the subject, but also look for details which help you guess where in the world the art work is from. (More clues may come from the artist's name.)
The Flower Carrier, by Diego Rivera,
San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art Click here
for an explanation! A Lady Playing the Tanpura, Kishangarh,
Rajasthan, India, Metropolitan Museum
of Art Click here
for an explanation! Hunter with Walrus Head, Attributed to Asia
Qupirualu Alasua, Art Gallery of Ontario,
Canada Click here
for an explanation! The Great Wave at Kanagawa, by Katsushika Hokusai,
Metropolitan Museum of
Art Click here
for an explanation! The Lacemaker, by Johannes
Vermeer,Metropolitan Museum of
Art Click here
for an explanation! Click here
for an explanation! Figures in Possum-skin Cloaks, by William Barak,
National Gallery of Victoria,
Australia Click here
for an explanation!
Activity
#4
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Paint a picture that shows where your family is
from!
Materials needed:
- Computer paint program such as KidPix or ClarisWorks Paint.
Directions:
- Find out what country your family or ancestors are from.
- Paint a picture that shows something of that culture. It could show the costume, some special activity, a dance, a home, or land characteristic.
- Use the whole window. Include color and background details.
- Sign your name at the bottom right corner of the painting.
Save your picture to your desktop. Send your painting as an attachment to Mrs. Ogata through e-mail.
- If you need directions to attach to e-mail, click here.
Response
#4
Open the e-mail message window¶ Describe your painting. Tell what is happening in your picture. Tell what country you are painting about, and what you tried to show.
Now send the e-mail by pressing the "send" button.
Activity #4
Grading Rubric Painting shows the country's characteristics as stated in
the response. Used the whole window for the picture. Painting shows some of the country's characteristics as
stated in the response. Used the whole window for the
painting. Painting does not match the country's characteristics as
stated in the response. Did not use the whole window for the
picture. Response answers all questions. Response answers most of the questions. Response answers one question. Response uses good sentences, spelling, capitalization,
and punctuation. Some sentence, capitalization, and punctuation errors are
in the response, but the reader can still get the
message. Many writing errors do not help get the message across.
Cannot understand what the message is.
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