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Bell Ringer’s
Sketchbook Exercise
 I n this painting,
Salvador Dali
distorted the clocks
in the artwork.
Why do you think
he did that? What
feeling does it add
to the finished
painting?
The Persistence of Memory
Artist: Salvador Dalí
Created: 1931
Dimensions: Location: 9 inches x 13 inches
Movement: Surrealism
Medium: Oil paint, Bronze
Location: The Museum of Modern Art (since
1934)

DATE: CLASS
: 1
 From Slavery Through Reconstruction
Series: Aspects of Negro Life
Describe the colors Douglas uses
Artist Aaron Douglas
Created: 1934
in this piece?
Dimensions: 7 feet x 8 feet
Movement: Art Deco, Synthetic Cubism
What color schemes do you
Medium: Oil
Location: The Baltimore Museum of
see? I s there an emphasis on
Art
certain colors? Why do you think
that is?
DATE: CLASS
: 2
 What kind o f lines are
used in the painting?

What about shapes?

Where do they lead

your eye?

Red Balloon
Artist: Paul Klee
Created: 1922
Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches
Movement: Bauhaus
Medium: Oil on chalk-primed gauze, mounted on board
Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, Estate of Karl Nierendorf

DATE: CLASS
: 3
 Look at the Van Gogh
painting to the left.
What kind o f lines are
present in the
Follow
painting?
a line with
your eyes all the way
through the painting.
What sort o f noises
would you hear if you
were inside this piece?
Starry Night
Why?
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Created: June 1889
Dimensions: 2 feet 5 inches x 3
feet Medium: Oil paint
Movements: Modern art, Post-
Impressionism Location: The Museum of Modern
Art

DATE: CLASS
: 4
 Write a description o f the woman
you see in this painting.

Describe her likes and

dislikes. Give a physical
description and information
about her
home and family. Try to piece
together a personality based on
what you see in the painting.
Mona Lisa
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Created: 1503
Dimensions: 30 inches x 21 inches
Movement: Renaissance
Medium: Oil paint
Location: Louvre Museum (since
1797)

DATE: CLASS
: 5
 Where is the
repetition in this
painting?

How does the

repetition add to the
rhythm o f the piece?
What other principles
o f design add to the
rhythm o f this piece?
We crossed the River at McKonkey’s Ferry 9 miles above Trenton ... the night was
excessively severe ... which the men bore without the least murmur...-Tench Tilghman, 27
December 1776
Series: Struggle Series - No. 10: Washington Crossing the Delaware
Artist: Jacob Lawrence
Created: 1954
Dimensions: 11 13/16 inches × 15 15/16 inches
Medium: Egg tempera on hardboard
Location: The Phillips Collection

DATE: CLASS
: 6
 What are the roles o f certain
elements in the work
(e.g. line, color, composition)?

How do they affect the work as a

whole?

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Artist: Johannes Vermeer
Created: 1665
Dimensions: 18 inches x 15 inches
Movement: Dutch Golden Age
Medium: Oil paint
Location: Mauritshuis

DATE: CLASS
: 7
 What symbols
do you see in the
artwork?
What do they
mean? Why
are they
important?

Maman
Artist: Louise Bourgeois
Created: 1999
Dimensions: 30 feet x 33 feet
Movement: Modern Art
Medium: Stainless steel, bronze, marble
Location: Tate Modern UK (since 2008)
Frequently tours around the world

DATE: CLASS
: 8
 Pine Trees Look at the piece o f art
Artist: Tohaku Hasegawa
Created: 16th century above. How would you move
Movement: Momoyama Movement
Medium: Ink on Paper screens through this atmosphere?
Location: Tokyo National Museum
What is the temperature? How
does
your voice sound here? Would you
want to stay long? Why or why
DATE: CLASS
not?
: 9
 Imagine that this piece is
the middle o f a story.

What happened before

this? What will happen
next?

Study the expression on

the figure’s face and their
gesture. What does is
communicate to the viewer?
Why?
Shantavia Beale II
Artist: Kehinde Wiley
Created: 2012
Dimensions: 60 inches × 48 inches
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Brooklyn Museum,
Brooklyn

DATE: CLASS
: 10
 List all the adjectives that
come to mind in your
first look at the artwork.

Why did you pick the

adjective that you did?
How would you describe
the person in the portrait?

Self-portrait
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Dimensions: 19 1/2 inches x 18
inches Medium: Oil on canvas
Movement: Cubism
Location: Narodni Gallery
Prague Zervos

DATE: CLASS
: 11
 Imagine the two people in
this painting could talk.

What would they say to

each other?

Would one
dominate the conversation?
Why or why
not?
American Gothic
Artist: Grant Wood
Created: 1930–1930
Dimensions: 29 inches x 25 inches
Movement: Modernism
Medium: Oil paint, Beaverboard
Location: The Art Institute of Chicago
(since 1930)

DATE: CLASS
: 12
 List three colors you see
in the painting.

For each color write a

feeling or emotion that is
you feel is associated with
that color.

Why you chose the colors/

emotions that you did?
How does it add to the
The Blue Horse
Artist: Franz Marc
piece?
Created: 1911
Dimensions: 44 inches × 33.3 inches
Medium: Oil on canvas
Movement: Fauvism
Location: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus,
Munich

DATE: CLASS
: 13
 Nighthawks Artist:
Art has a history. Take a look at the
Edward Hopper
Created: 1942
date o f this painting. What was
Dimensions: 33 inches x 60
inches Medium: Oil paint going on in the world at this time?
Movements: American Realism, Social
Realism Location: The Art Institute of Chicago How does it affect the feeling o f
the painting?

DATE: CLASS
: 14
 Girl with Balloon
Artist: Banksy
What do you think is
Created: 2004
Medium: Stencil with Aerosol Paint
the meaning o f this
Movement: Street Art
Location: Waterloo Bridge in South
piece by Banksy? What
Bank
has emphasis? Why?

DATE: CLASS
: 15
 Choose one o f
the characters in
the painting and
write about your
day on the Island
o f La Grande
Jatte.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Artist: Georges Seurat
Dimensions: 6 feet 10 inches x 10 feet 1 inch
Created: 1884–1886
Medium: Oil paint
Movement: Pointillism
Location: The Art
Institute of Chicago

DATE: CLASS
: 16
 Perspective:
Where is the observer
positioned in the
painting?

Where would the

onlooker have to be
standing to see it this
way?

What time o f day is

Impression, Sunrise
Artist: Claude Monet it?
Created: 1872–1872
Dimensions: 19 inches x 25 inches How do you know?
Movement: Impressionism Medium:
Oil paint
Location: Musée Marmottan Monet

DATE: CLASS
: 17
 How does this painting
make you feel?

What elements or
principles o f design do
you see in the
painting?

How do they contribute

to the way it makes you
feel?
Stadia II
Artist: Julie Mehretu
Created: 2004
Dimensions: 108 inches x 144
inches Medium: Acrylic
Movement: Abstract Art
Location: Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh)

DATE: CLASS
: 18
 What is the artist’s
purpose? I s there an
agenda or a message
or a theme in their
artwork?

Where do you see

it? I s it effective/
persuasive? Why or
why not?

Relativity
M.C. Escher
Created: 1953
Dimensions: 10.9 inches × 11.5 inches
Medium: lithograph print
Location: Brigham Young University
Museum

DATE: CLASS
: 19
 What is influencing the
artwork?
(e.g. social ideologies,
historical events, personal
life)?

How can you

tell?

Whistler’s Mother
Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Created: 1871
Dimensions: 4’ 9” x 5’4”
Movements: Modern art, Realism
Medium: Oil paint
Locations: Musée d’Orsay (since 2019)
Louvre Abu Dhabi (until 2019)

DATE: CLASS
: 20
 Who is the little girl in the
painting?

How do you know?

What is she
feeling?

Young Mother Sewing

Artist: Mary Cassatt
Created: 1900
Dimensions: 36.4 inches x 29 inches
Movement: Impressionism
Medium: Oil on Canvas Location:
Metropolitan Museum of Art

DATE: CLASS
: 21
 What do you associate
with these people and their
placement?

What do you think is the

subject matter o f the painting?

Why?

Arnolfini Portrait
Artist: Jan van Eyck
Created: 1434
Dimensions: 32 inches x 24 inches
Movement: Northern Renaissance
Medium: Oil paint, Oak
Location: The National Gallery

DATE: CLASS
: 22
 Balance: How is the
art work/painting
arranged? Are all
sides equal in
visual weight, or is
one side heavier
than the other?
How does this
affect the overall
feeling or
communication o f
Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave
Series: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji the piece?
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai
Created: 1820–1831
Dimensions: 10 inches x 15 inches
Movement: Ukiyo-e
Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Location: The Met

DATE: CLASS
: 23
 What makes
art, art?

Do you believe
this is fine art?

Why or why
not?

Campbell’s Soup Cans

Artist: Andy Warhol
Created: 1962
Dimensions: 20 inches x 16 inches
Movement: Pop Art
Medium: Canvas, Synthetic polymer paint
Location: The Museum of Modern Art

DATE: CLASS
: 24
 I s this piece abstract
or realistic?

What does the piece

communicate to you?

How does it make you

feel? What elements or
principles o f art add to
that feeling?
Oriental Poppies
Artist: Georgia O’Keeffe
Created: 1928
Dimensions: 40.0 inches × 30.0
inches Movement: American Modernism
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Weisman Art Museum

DATE: CLASS
: 25
 What is the artist’s purpose?

I s there an agenda or a
message or a theme in
their artwork?

Where do you see it?

I s it effective/persuasive?
Why or why not?
The Son of Man Artist:
René Magritte
Created: 1964
Dimensions: 45.67 inches × 35 inches
Movement: Surrealism
Medium: Oil paint Location:
Private collection

DATE: CLASS
: 26
 What has
emphasis in this
painting? (Where
you look first)

What element o f
art created that
emphasis?

Describe where
you look
Christina’s World second and
Artist: Andrew Wyeth
Created: 1948–1948 why.
Dimensions: 32 inches x 48 inches Movement:
American Regionalism/Realism Medium:
Tempera, Gesso
Location: The Museum of Modern Art

DATE: CLASS
: 27
 Does the artist use symbols
in the artwork or create new
ones? What are they?

What do they mean? Why

are they important?

The Two Fridas

Artist: Frida Kahlo
Created: 1939
Dimensions: 5 feet 8 inches x 5 feet 8 inches

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Movement: Symbolism/Surrealism
Medium: Oil paint
Location: Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City

DATE: CLASS
: 28
 Describe the people
you see in this
painting.

Why did you

describe them that
way?

What clues do you

see that gives you
Luncheon of the Boating Party
an idea o f who they
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Created: 1880–1881
are?
Dimensions: 4 feet 3 inches x 5 feet 8 inches
Movement: Impressionism
Medium: Oil on Canvas Location:
The Phillips Collection

DATE: CLASS
: 29
 What does this
painting
mean?
Why do you
think that?

How does the color

add to the overall
communication o f
the piece?
Untitled (for Cy Twombly)
Artist: Keith Haring
Created: 1988
Dimensions: 36 inches x 36 inches
Medium: Acrylic on canvas Location:
The Estate of Keith Haring

DATE: CLASS
: 30
 What are the roles
o f certain elements
in the work (e.g.
line, color,
composition)?
How do they affect
the work as a
whole?

The Hay Wain

Artist: John Constable
Created: 1821
Dimensions: 4 feet 3 inches x 6 feet 1 inch
Movement: Romanticism Medium:
Oil on Canvas
Location: The National Gallery, London

DATE: CLASS
: 31
 What do you associate with
these objects and their
placement?

Why?

Butterflies
Artist: Odilon Redon
Created: 1910 Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 29 inches × 21.6 inches
Movement: Romanticism/Symbolism
Location: Museum of Modern Art, New
York City.

DATE: CLASS
: 32
 What does the lion
represent in this
painting?

Does it seem
menacing? Why
or why not?

The Sleeping Gypsy

Artist: Henri Rousseau
Created: 1897–1897
Dimensions: 4 feet 3 inchesx 6 feet 7 inches
Medium: Oil paint
Movements: Primitivism
Locations: The Museum of Modern Art, Private
collection

DATE: CLASS
: 33
 Kandinsky often
painted music. I f
this painting
represents a
symphony, what
instrument do you
and
thinkviolet
the black
circle
represent?
What other
instruments do you
Composition VIII
Artist: Wassily Kandinsky
see, or pieces o f
Created 1923
Dimensions: 55.1 inches × 79.1
instruments do you
inches Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Medium: Oil on canvas
see in the painting?
Location: The Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York

DATE: CLASS
: 34
 Impressionists
closely studied
natural light and
the way it
influences the
colors we use.
Faithfully painting
the light was a
primary goal o f the
Impressionists
Summer’s Day
Artist: Berthe Morisot Explain in detail
Created: 1879
Dimensions: 18.0 inches × 29.6 inches how this painting
Movement: Impressionism
Medium: Oil on canvas demonstrates that
Location: National Portrait Gallery
goal?

DATE: CLASS
: 35
 How does Klimt use the
principle o f pattern in this
piece?

Where is the emphasis

in this painting?

Why?

The Kiss
Artist: Gustav Klimt
Dimensions: 5
feet 11 inches x 5 feet
11 inches
Created: 1907–1908
Movements: Art Nouveau
Medium: Oil paint, Gold leaf
Location: Austrian Gallery
Belvedere

DATE: CLASS
: 36
 I f this artwork
could dance, what
song would it
dance to?

Why?

Lida and the Swan

Artist: Cy Twombly
Created: 1962
Dimensions: 6 feet 7 inches x 6 feet 7 inches
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Medium: Oil paint, Pencil, Crayon
Location: Museum of Modern Art

DATE: CLASS
: 37
 Which colors does
the artist use?

I s there an
emphasis on
certain colors?

I f you were to
guess, what season
was this painted in?
Arearea
Artist: Paul Gauguin
Created: 1892
Dimensions: 37 inches x 29.5
inches Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Musée d’Orsay, Paris

DATE: CLASS
: 38
 Where is the light focused
in the painting?

Where is light
missing? Why do you
believe the artist made
this choice?

What do you think the

man in the painting is
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
feeling?
Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
Created: 1818
Why?
Dimensions: 37 inches x 29 inches
Medium: Oil paint
Movement: German Romanticism
Location: Hamburger Kunsthalle

DATE: CLASS
: 39
 What social ideologies or
historical events, are influencing
this artwork?

What makes you believe that?

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold

Artist: Charles Demuth
Created: 1928
Dimensions: 35 1/2 × 30 in. (90.2 × 76.2 cm)
Medium: Oil, graphite, ink, and gold leaf on
paperboard
Location: The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York)

DATE: CLASS
: 40
 Describe how the principle
o f symmetry applies to this
piece.

How does it influence the

overall look and feel o f the
artwork?

Decorative Flower Study

Artist Julie Graag
Created: 1919
Medium: Woodcut on buff wove paper.
Location: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan
University.

DATE: CLASS
: 41
 What do you think the
unicorn represents in this
painting?

What other symbols do you

see in the painting?

Do you like this painting?

Why or why not?

Young Woman with Unicorn

Artist: Raphael Raffaello
Created: 1505-1506
Dimensions: 26 inches × 20 inches
Movement: Italian Renaissance
Medium: Originally oil on panel; now on canvas
Location: Galleria Borghese, Rome

DATE: CLASS
: 42
 How does the work
make you feel?

Does it change the

way you view the
world/think?

Fireflies on Water
Artist: Yayoi Kusama
Created: 2002
Dimensions: Overall:
111in × 144 1/2in ×
144 1/2in.
Type: Installation Art
Medium: Mirrors, plexiglass, lights, and water
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art

DATE: CLASS
: 43
 Look at the
different items
arranged in this still
life.

What do you see

that is unusual about
the painting?

I s this still life

Basket of Apples realistic? Why
Artist: Paul Cézanne
Created: 1895 or why not?
Dimensions: 65 cm × 80 cm (25.6 in × 31.5 in)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Movements: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism
Location: The Art Institute of Chicago

DATE: CLASS
: 44
 What objects/
animals does the
artist use in the
artwork?

How are
they placed?

Do you see
movement in the
Two Mallards near a Snow-Covered Lotus
(Twee eenden bij besneeuwde lotus) Artist: artwork? Where?
Ohara Koson
Created: 1925 - 1936
Dimensions: 24 inches x 20 inches
Movement: Shin-hanga
Medium: Woodcut/Print
Location: Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands

DATE: CLASS
: 45