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Learning to Look, Looking to Learn - Sunday Morning OrganizerLearning to Look, Looking to Learn - Sunday Morning Organizer
Publisher
Memorial Art Gallery
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9th - 12th
Subjects
Visual & Performing Arts
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Graphic Organizers
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Duration
1 hr
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Learning to Look, Looking to Learn - Sunday Morning

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Jerome Myers' depiction of the urban landscape in "Sunday Morning" is the focus of a series of activities that asks viewers to examine how an artist uses the elements of a painting to tell a story. The resource packet includes an image of the painting, as well as separate worksheets that focus attention on Myers's colors, lines, balance and composition, and sensory appeals.

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Jerome Myers, Askcan School, European Modernism, visual and performing arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Ask viewers to change a single element of the painting and to consider how this change impacts the story told by the painting

Classroom Considerations

  • The approach takes the mystery out of how to read a painting

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  • A link to suggestions that can be used with any work is included

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