NATEE UTARIT : After Painting - Singapore Art Museum

Suggested answers for Natee Utarit worksheet
1. The one on the left is more bright and fresh with colours like yellow and green, whereas the
one on the right is duller, with colours like grey and dark green. It looks like the landscape on
the left is painted during summer time while the one on the right is done during winter time.
2. An interior of a room is being painted here, with the focus on different corners of the floor
and the wall.
3. From the title, we know this painting shows a mother figure. We can make out a female
figure seated on the ground with her head bowed down and her legs curled beneath her
(the brown section represents her hair while the white section represents her body).
4. Students’ free response to whether the image looks like an animal/person/object.
5. Students’ free response. Example of words: loving, caring, kind, warm, nurturing. etc
6. The individual panels look like photographs.
7. It’s a young boy and a middle-aged couple. They look like a family (mother, father and son).
8. Students’ own response. Suggested answer: It looks like a photograph is being pasted in the
middle of a landscape painting. Student can also describe the picture- I see clouds, grassy
fields, etc.
9. No, we cannot make out what is being painted here clearly, because the original subjects
have been stained over by a brown stain, so the colours and outline are not seen clearly.
If the student thinks it is pretty easy to make out the images on the paintings- it looks like
both paintings are of women/females.
10. Students’ personal response. Suggested answer: Yes, because we can still make out the
meticulously painted subjects that were done in great detail.
OR: No, because the paintings look dirty/old/the colours are dull.
11. Students’ free response to whether they have seen a sculpture before, and if they have,
where.
You can find such classical sculptures in art studios, art schools/classrooms, museums, or
public places where busts of important people are put up to commemorate their
achievements or contributions.
12. Students’ free response to who they would want to make a sculpture of, and consequently
drawing the picture in the space.
13. Students’ free response. Suggested answer: yellow, brown, green, grey, white, black, red,
orange.
14. Students’ free response.
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