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Tips for leading an art study with your group: • Make sure everyone has a good view of the art, either print individual copies of the art or have it displayed on a screen or tablet. • Introduce the art, artist, title and date it was painted. • Take time to quietly look at the art, let the art speak. • Use questions to stimulate discussion. • Use open ended questions that will solicit opinion. Here are some questions that will help get the discus- sion going: • What caption would you give this painting? • Can you tell the time of day or the season in this painting, what clues do you have? • What is the mood of the painting? Do the colors and lighting help to define the mood? How? • Pretend you are inside this painting, describe how you feel. • If money were no object, would you buy this painting? • Does this painting make you think of any place you have visited. • What would you ask the artist about this painting if they were here? 1 ThePurplePrimer.com Art Study Jack London The San Francisco Art Museums
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Tips for leading an art study with your group:• Make sure everyone has a good view of the art, either
print individual copies of the art or have it displayed on a screen or tablet.
• Introduce the art, artist, title and date it was painted.• Take time to quietly look at the art, let the art speak.• Use questions to stimulate discussion. • Use open ended questions that will solicit opinion.
Here are some questions that will help get the discus-sion going:
• What caption would you give this painting?• Can you tell the time of day or the season in this painting,
what clues do you have?• What is the mood of the painting? Do the colors and
lighting help to define the mood? How?• Pretend you are inside this painting, describe how you
feel.• If money were no object, would you buy this painting? • Does this painting make you think of any place you have
visited. • What would you ask the artist about this painting if they
were here?
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Art StudyJack London
The San Francisco Art Museums
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Flower Girl by Nicolai Fechin 1936
The de Young Art Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park has been a popular destination for over 100 years. Originally built for the California Midwinter International Expo-sition in 1894, the popular exhibit was established as the Fine Arts Building by the chair of the exposition committee Michael H. de Young, co-founder of the San Francisco Chronicle. After damage from earthquakes in 1906 and 1989, the original building was replaced by a new building built on springs, making it nearly earthquake proof. The de Young mu-seum is the most visited art museum west of the Mississippi. The following art work is currently on display in the de Young Art Museum.
Flower Girl by Nicolai Fechin 1936
Nicolai Fechin was born in 1881 in Kazan, Russia. Fechin was a child prodigy who enrolled in the prestigous St Pe-tersburg Academy of Arts at the age of 13. Fechin’s family emigrated to the United States during the Russian Revolu-tion where he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and encour-aged to move to a drier climate. Fechin moved to Taos New Mexico where he fell in love with the beautiful mountains and the colorful Native American cul-ture. Fechin’s house in Taos is now home to the Taos Art Museum.
Discussion: After living in Siberia Rus-sion for many years, what about Taos might have inspired him?
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Nicolai Fechin(self portrait)
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Mining the Gold Stope (Tucson AZ) by John Charles Haley 1936
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Mining the Gold Stope (Tucson AZ) by John Charles Haley 1936Stoping is a mining technique involving extracting under-ground ore and leaving empty tunnels or stopes.
John Charles Haley was born in Minnesota where he at-tended the Minneapolis School of art. He was hired as an art instructor at the University of California at Berkeley where he taught for 42 years. Haley is credited with es-tablishing Berkeley as one of the finest art schools in the country.
Discussion: Haley is considered a Modernist artist. This art form often combined art and politics and focused on social change. Using Haley’s color choices and facial expressions, what might Haley have been high-lighting in this painting?
John Charles Haley
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View of Donner Lake, California by Albert Bierstadt 1871
View of Donner Lake, California by Albert Bierstadt 1871Albert Bierstadt was a German painter who established a ca-reer painting the Alpine landscapes of his native country. IN 1859 Bierstadt emigrated to the United States where he was hired by an Overland survey expidition to document the west-ern frontier. Bierstadt’s paintings were wildly popular with a public eager to learn more about the mysterious land to the West.
Donner Lake is located in Northeast California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada.
Discussion: Bierstadt was often criticized by the art com-munity for his romantic depictions of western landscapes. Do people today have an idealized image of the western landscape?
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View of Donner Lake, California by Albert Bierstadt 1871 Albert Bierstadt
