Down on the Farm - Art Gallery of Alberta

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The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition ProgramReading Pictures Program continuedVisual Learning WorksheetInstructions: Choose two very different pieces of artwork in the exhibition and answerthe following questions in as much detail as you can.1. What is the title of the work and who created it?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. What do you see and what do you think of it? (What is your initial reaction to thework?) Why do you feel this way?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. What colours do you see and how does the use of colour affect the way you ‘read’the work? Why do you think the artist chose these colours – or lack of colour – for thispresentation?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. What shapes and objects do you notice most? Why?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition ProgramReading Pictures Program continued5. How are the shapes/objects arranged or composed? How does this affect your feelingstowards or about the work? What feeling does this composition give to the work?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. How would you describe the mood of this work? (How does it make you feel?) Whatdo you see that makes you describe the mood in this way?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7. What do you think the artist’s purpose was in creating this work? What ‘story’ might heor she be telling? What aspects of the artwork give you this idea?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________8. What do you think about this work after answering the above questions? Has youropinion of the work changed in any way? Why do you feel this way?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________9. How might this work relate to your own life experiences? Have you ever been in asimilar situation/place and how did being there make you feel?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479youraga.ca
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