Welcome, Dora High School! You are in Group 5.
You are creating a tour of the Art Museum for someone who has never been here. Your virtual tour will include photos and text, and it will be available online for those that you invite to view it. Use the following instructions to get your tour started.
1. Find three pieces of artwork that relate to your theme. For each artwork, write a sentence or two to let your followers know why/how you think it connects to your theme.
Alice Dalton Brow
Island Columns
2005
This picture relates to nature. It's by the sea side and has vegetation. Sunlight also seeps into the painting.
Island Columns
2005
This picture relates to nature. It's by the sea side and has vegetation. Sunlight also seeps into the painting.
Jane Troup
The Black Panther
2001
A jungle with lots of trees, vegetation, and a black panther. A monkey in the trees hiding from the panther. A mountain in the back with the sun rising from behind.
The Black Panther
2001
A jungle with lots of trees, vegetation, and a black panther. A monkey in the trees hiding from the panther. A mountain in the back with the sun rising from behind.
Roy De Forest
Ode to Rin Tin Tin
2002
This shows humor from a bald man with a long nose. Also, a coyote with an anxious look. This picture takes place in the old west.
Ode to Rin Tin Tin
2002
This shows humor from a bald man with a long nose. Also, a coyote with an anxious look. This picture takes place in the old west.
2. Find and photograph:
An artwork that everyone in the group likes.
Jerry Bowman
Paternity
2000
This picture looks as if it takes place in Mexico. It contains maracas, lizards, and a quilt.
Paternity
2000
This picture looks as if it takes place in Mexico. It contains maracas, lizards, and a quilt.
A work that group members strongly disagree about.
G. Diekhoner
Day Dreamer
20th Century
Some think this picture is cute. Others think it is deceiving because lions are dangerous and fierce.
Day Dreamer
20th Century
Some think this picture is cute. Others think it is deceiving because lions are dangerous and fierce.
An artwork that, if it were a sound, would be LOUD.
Robert E Smith
Private Circus Practice
1999
This is very loud because it is full of clowns, monkeys elephants, other circus animals, airplanes, and a hippie van.
Private Circus Practice
1999
This is very loud because it is full of clowns, monkeys elephants, other circus animals, airplanes, and a hippie van.
An artwork that, if you could taste it, would be sour.
Jack Beal
Still Life
1978
This painting contains lemons, thus, being sour.
Still Life
1978
This painting contains lemons, thus, being sour.
3. Photograph the people in your group re-enacting an artwork. See if you can recreate a facial expression, a shape, or a composition using your bodies. Have one member of the group photograph your re-enactment alongside the artwork that inspired it.
John Steuart Curry
End Run
1938
I got tackled by Dustin
End Run
1938
I got tackled by Dustin
4. Find two artworks in different rooms that you think have something in common and photograph them. What do they have in common?
They are both plain but reveal more as you stare at them.
John Schueler
China Blues
1998
Jules Olitski
Darkness Spread
1973
John Schueler
China Blues
1998
Jules Olitski
Darkness Spread
1973
5. Choose an artwork that you would put in your dream home. Photograph the artwork and describe the room you would hang it in. What's the furniture like? What do you see out the windows? What color are the walls?
Daniel Lang
Morning in Sardinia
1978-79
Shelby said, "When I am old, I would put this in my house." Tan walls.
Morning in Sardinia
1978-79
Shelby said, "When I am old, I would put this in my house." Tan walls.
6. Find a painting of a place you'd like to visit and photograph it. Describe what it feels like to be in that place--weather, sounds, your mood, etc.
Roy Nolen
House Boat
2011
This place is peaceful, warm and you can hear waterfalls. You have to live on a boat.
House Boat
2011
This place is peaceful, warm and you can hear waterfalls. You have to live on a boat.
7. Find an artwork that suggests a story. Write the first line of the story and the last line of the story.
Fred Conway
The Gas House Gang
The guy batting gets hit in the face by the pitch and the dugouts clear. Brooklyn wins the game.
The Gas House Gang
The guy batting gets hit in the face by the pitch and the dugouts clear. Brooklyn wins the game.
8. Look for an artwork that you have a question about and photograph it. What's your question?
Helen Frankenthaler
Eve
1995
A game of hang man gone terribly wrong.
Eve
1995
A game of hang man gone terribly wrong.
9. Find an artwork that reminds you of a person that's important to you. Who is the person and what about the artwork made you think of him or her?
Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever
Woman Seated at a Table with Child
This reminds Shelby of her mom holding her when she was once a baby.
Woman Seated at a Table with Child
This reminds Shelby of her mom holding her when she was once a baby.
10. Look for an artwork that reminds you of something you have made. Photograph it and describe the thing it reminds you of.
Caryl Morgan
Teepee Trading Post
2011
We have all made a teepee before in our life.
Teepee Trading Post
2011
We have all made a teepee before in our life.