Reading objects
- 1. 11 Works from the Collection
- 2. Directions: Part I: Select an Object You are to select one work from the Reading Objects collection to write about. I have taken photographs of eleven of the pieces and included them in this document; however, you are more than welcome to go to the Museum and select another work. If you do, be sure to: 1) make sure it is one of the objects in the Reading Objects collection; and 2) take a photograph of the object.
- 3. Directions: Part 2: Freewrite and Then Read Freewrite for at least 10 minutes about the object. Look at it carefully. Try to describe it. Consider what stands out to you about the object. Read the description of the object. How does the description help you to understand the object?
- 4. Directions: Part 3: Write Choose to write a poem or a short prose piece (less than 500 words). Here are some ideas: • Write from the point of the view of someone in the painting or photograph; • Write from the point of view of the artist creating the piece of art; • Write from your point of view, examining the object;
- 5. Image 1: Ancestor Painting
- 6. Image 2: Post-Card #24
- 7. Image 3: Beggar Woman
- 8. Image 4: The Weavers March
- 10. Image 6: Roumanian Girl
- 11. Image 8: Sir John Herschel, 1867
- 12. Image 9: Boys Playing Amidst Ruins— Spanish Civil War
- 13. Image 10: Necktie Workshop in a Division Street Tenement
- 14. Image 11: Dog Effigy Vessel