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.

Additional Tags

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

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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

Pros

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

Cons

• None