The Mini Page — 2005 Activities
How Washington Looked
Issue 26
June 25-July 1
Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page´s content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week´s standards:Students identify works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places. (Visual Arts)Students understand how an artist´s experiences influence the development of specific artworks. (Visual Arts) Activities:1. Ask a family member or friend to "sit" for you while you draw his or her picture. 2. Collect photographs of people´s faces from the newspaper over several days. Paste the photos on a piece of paper. Under each photo, write a word that describes the emotion the person seems to be expressing in the photo, like "happy," "angry" or "surprised." 3. Paint a picture of a person or an object. Now paint three copies of the first painting.
What differences do you see between the copies and the original? What was the hardest part of trying to make each painting exactly the same as the first? 4. Look at Stuart´s full-length portrait of Washington. Why do you think he put these items in the painting: (a) two eagles, (b) books, and (c) the Stars and Stripes on a chair? 5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about another famous American portrait painter, such as Charles Wilson Peale, John Singleton Copley or Benjamin West. Use these questions to guide your research: When did the painter live? When did he study art? Why did the painter decide to do portraits? How did the painter support himself? What was special about his paintings? Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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