1. Define emphasis as it applies to art.
2. Choose one of the artworks listed below to look up online. Then write a paragraph (5-7 sentences) on how this artwork shows or uses emphasis.
3. If you need help, email me, or choose more than one if you can't write a paragraph on one.
Artworks that show emphasis (complied by Cindy at the Art Curator for Kids ):
- Grant Wood, Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939 (Line, Shape)
- Jonathan Borofsky, Walking to the Sky, 2004 (Line, Movement)
- Francisco Goya, The Shootings of May Third 1808, 1814 (Value, Color, Line)
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1767 (Complementary Color, Movement)
- Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1494-99 (Balance, Line, Space)
- Richard Anuszkiewicz, Deep Magenta Square, 1978 (Color, Line, Shape, Light)
- Albert Bierstadt, Sunrise on the Matterhorn, after 1875 (Size, Space, Light, Contrast)
- Georges de La Tour, St. Joseph the Carpenter, c. 1645 (Contrast, Value, Light)
- Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World, 1948 (Space)
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622-25 (Movement, Line)
- George C. Ault, Sullivan Street, Abstraction, 1924 (Contrast, Shape, Line, Color, Light)
- Rembrandt van Rijn, Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, known as the ‘Night Watch’, 1642 (Line, Value, Movement)
- Edgar Degas, The Star, ca. 1878 (Shape, Balance, Line, Movement)
- Andy Goldsworthy, Circles, Varied (Shape, Color, Value)
- Ancient Egypt, Nebamun Hunting in the Marshes, ca. 1350 B.C.E. (Scale/Size, Line)
- Fra Bartolommeo, Savonarola, 16th century (Light, Contrast)
- Jean Arp, Enak’s Tears (Terrestrial Forms), 1917 (Color, Shape)
- Caravaggio, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1601-02 (Composition, Line, Contrast, Light, Color)
- Alexander Calder, Saucers Skirting a Planet, 1968 (Shape, Color)
- Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, c.1620 (Line, Movement, Contrast, Value)
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Creation of Man, 1508-12 (Negative Space, Line)
- Gertrude Käsebier, Portrait of Alfred Steiglitz, 1902 (Texture, Value)
- René Magritte, The Art of Living, 1967 (Shape, Space)
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