Reading Art and the art of reading Rachael Sanford [email protected] Stephanie Tatum [email protected] Harrison High School Kennesaw,

Reading Artand the art of reading

Rachael Sanford [email protected] Stephanie Tatum [email protected]

Harrison High School Kennesaw, GA (678) 594-8104

(Elements of the Short Story)

Monet, Claude. Wisteria. 1919. Oil on canvas. Musée Marmottan, Paris.

Essential Question: How can I analyze the elements of fiction in short stories?

Georgia Public School Standard ELA9RL1.a Fiction: Locates and analyzes such elements in fiction as language (e.g., diction, imagery, symbolism, figurative language), character development, setting and mood, point of view, foreshadowing, and irony.

Based on what you see in this work, what do you imagine about what was happening immediately before this moment?

What details support your conjecture?

What do these details tell you about the setting of the painting?

How does the artist emphasize these details to show their importance?

Matisse, Henri. The Music Lesson. 1917. Oil on canvas. Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA.

Henri Matisse. The Music Lesson. 1917. Oil on canvas. Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA.

Imagine you are writing a short story inspired by this painting. Write the opening paragraph that would explain the setting and background information. Using descriptive words, capture the same images the artist captures on canvas. Also, imitate the mood that seems evident in the scene.

Exposition

You have just written an exposition—or introduction to the setting, situation, and main characters of the plot.

Share your exposition with a neighbor. What differences occur between your two renditions?

Henri Matisse. The Music Lesson. 1917. Oil on canvas. Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA.


(Elements of the Short Story)EQ: How can I recognize irony?

ELA9RL1.a Fiction: Locates and analyzes such elements in fiction as … irony.


Isn’t it ironic?

Gardner, Alexander. Home of A Rebel Sharpshooter,

Gettysburg, July 1863. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.

What incongruity do you see in this photograph? How did you come to that conclusion?

Gardner, Alexander. Home of A Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, July 1863. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.

What would we expect of a “sharpshooter”?

What has actually happened to this sharpshooter?

IronyWhen something occurs that seems different from what is expected, we have irony.



EQ: Why does point of view matter in a story?

ELA9RL1.a Fiction: Locates and analyzes such elements in fiction as … point of view.


From whose perspective are you looking at this scene?

What details help you to determine the perspective?

From whose perspective are you looking at this scene?

What details help you to determine the perspective?

What makes the two perspectives different?

Point of View

First person point of view tells a story from the perspective of the narrator. The narrator refers to himself as a character in the plot, using the pronoun “I.”

Third person point of view tells the story from the perspective of a narrator who is not involved in the story, but who sees the plot happening. Pronouns used are “he,” “she,” “they,” rather than “I,” “me,” or “we.”



EQ: How does mood affect the way I read a story?

ELA9RL1.a Fiction: Locates and analyzes such elements in fiction as … mood.



What is mood?

What do body language, facial

expressions, actions, and words tell us about

a person’s mood?

How does the figure in this sculpture feel?

What details create the mood in this sculpture?

Dallin, . Indian Drinking. Bronze. High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

How do the people in the scene feel? What details supply your opinion?

What details create the mood in this painting?


Tournier, Nicolas. The Denial of St. Peter. ca. 1630. Oil on canvas. High Museum of Art.

Beckmann, Max. Family Picture. 1920. Museum of Modern Art, New York.


(Elements of the Short Story)EQ: How do diction and syntax affect the way I understand details?

ELA9RL1.a Fiction: Locates and analyzes such elements in fiction as … diction.


A writer’s style includes his word choices (diction), the arrangement of those choices (syntax), and the presence or absence of simile, metaphor, etc. (figurative language).

How would you describe this artist’s style? What aspects of painting are related to diction, syntax, and figurative language?

Pollack, Jackson. Untitled (Green Silver). 1949. Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Monet, Claude. Impression, soleil levant. 1872. Oil on canvas. Musee Marmottan

How would you describe this artist’s style?

How is it similar to or different from the Pollack piece on the previous slide?

Would you recognize another work by the same artist?

Moses on the 1518 baptismal font in St. Amandus, Bad Urach, Germany, by the sculptor Christoph von Urach.

The Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, Paris

The Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, Paris

Style of Gothic architecture & sculpture?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Germany_Bad-Urach_Moses-Font.jpg



EQ: What does a carefully crafted character add to a short story?

ELA9RL1.a Locates and analyzes such elements in fiction as … character development.


Hopper, Edward. Nighthawks. 1942, oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago.

Authors develop CHARACTER through both direct and indirect methods.

• narration with either implied or explicit judgment

• narration with no judgment

• physical description

• character’s actions

• character’s speech

• character’s thoughts and feelings


Choose a character from the painting below and write a short scene using at least 4 of the 6 methods of characterization. While you must consider setting, point-of-view, and conflict to create a scene, your main consideration should be on character development.


Share your scene with a partner. As you read your partner’s scene, identify the methods of characterization used. Did the writer engage you, help you identify with the character, make you care what happens to the character? How could your partner improve the development of the character?



EQ: Why do audiences respond to foreshadowing?

ELA9RL1.a Fiction: Locates and analyzes such elements in fiction as foreshadowing.


Millais, Sir John Everett. The Woodman’s Daughter.

1851, oil on canvas. The Guildhall Art Gallery, UK.

1. Characterize the people in the painting. What details support your thoughts?

2. Explain the “plot” of the painting. What is happening now? What has happened before? What will happen in the future?

3. What details suggest some future event(s)?

Millais, Sir John Everett. The Woodman’s Daughter.

1851, oil on canvas. The Guildhall Art Gallery, UK.

1. How does Millais foreshadow these future events in this scene of the budding romance between the two as children?

2. Which character is to blame? How do you know?

3. What moral message (theme) is he trying to convey?

The inspiration of the painting is a poem of the same title by Coventry Patmore that tells the story of Maud, a poor woodman's daughter, and a wealthy squire's son. The son eventually seduces the girl. Because their difference in social class prevents them from marrying, Maud, in her despair, drowns their illegitimate child and goes mad.

Hughes, Arthur. The Woodman’s Child. 1860, oil on canvas. Tate

Gallery, London.

This painting also illustrates a child left alone in the woods while a parent works. Compare and contrast the mood of this painting with the Millais painting.

Does the artist seem to foreshadow anything negative in this painting? Why or why not?

Reading Art and the art of reading Rachael Sanford [email protected] Stephanie Tatum [email protected] Harrison High School Kennesaw,

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