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DESCRIBING WHAT YOU SEE
You will find links for two paintings below. Describe what you see in each painting in detail.
What to describe:
Helpful Phrases-Describing What You See
Print and glue the following two paintings, by PIET MONDRIAN, into your DWB.
Be sure to include the necessary details.
Painting #1-Avond (Evening); Red Tree
Painting #2-Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray
Recording Information about Artworks
SUBJECT MATTER
Subject matter means the people, objects, things that you see in the artwork.
For example,
-a young woman sitting in a chair
-a man and a woman standing in a room
-a bowl of oranges and apples on a table
-a street in downtown Osaka
NOT all artworks have subject matter!
ELEMENTS
LINE
Direction
- horizontal
- vertical
- diagonal
- circular
Type
- thick
- thin
- long
- short
- wavy
- straight
Line
SHAPE
Organic/ Geometric
Hard-edge/ Soft-edge
Shape and Size
SPACE
flat/ shallow/ deep
postive/ negative space
Illusion of space
-overlap
Space
COLOUR
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
Shade- Black
Tint- White
Primary/ Secondary
Complementary
Warm/ Cool
Natural/ Arbitrary
Colour
TEXTURE
visual/ actual (real)
English Requirements
All students are to write in English.
OIS and SIS H, H+ students must write in full sentences.
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