2. Lesson Ten Integrated Concepts
Language Arts: descriptive language, oral language
Visual Art: composition, color, shape/form, light,
space, still-life, lithography
Science: carnivorous plants
Mathematics: three dimensional shapes

3. When an artist arranges objects and/or containers, like
pitchers, bowls, and plates on a surface with flowers, fruit,
vegetables, or even animals, we call their artwork a “still-life”.
Take a few minutes to look very carefully at each of these
still-life paintings very carefully. Try to observe every detail.

4. These artworks have both two dimensional and three
dimensional shapes.
Can you point out and name some of them?

5. Compare the way the artists showed the space in these
artworks. What do you notice about the background in each
composition?
What do you notice about the textures in these compositions?
Can you point out glossy, reflective, shiny, soft, smooth, rough
and velvety surfaces? Can you imagine how the artist made
the paint or ink look like all these different textures?

6. The tall flowers in this painting
are from a very rare carnivorous
plant call a pitcher plant.
Can you explain why this form might
be named after a pitcher?
Carnivorous means that this plant
“eats” insects. Actually, the insects
fall down into the long tubes and are
dissolved by the plant.
What do you know about any
other carnivorous plants?

7. This artwork is a lithograph.
Lithography is a form of printmaking
where the artist draws on a stone
surface, then uses a special process
to print multiples of the image on
paper.
What reasons can you think of
that this artist might have chosen
to show only a part of each of the
zinnias?
Can you imagine why the artist
might have chosen to use a tin can
instead of a vase for the flower?

8. This painting has many different elements
in the composition; flowers, containers,
cloth, painted table, and a decorated wall.
Many of the objects are unusual or exotic.
This lithograph has only a few, common
objects and it shows only part of two
ordinary flowers called zinnias.
Can you compare and contrast the
artist’s purpose in these two artworks?
Would you prefer to make a simple or a
complex artwork? Explain why.

9. Can you compare and contrast these
compositions in their use of:
color pattern
space light

10. Information about the art and the artists
Title: “Pitcher Plants”
Artist/Dates: Elizabeth Chant, American,
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 23.5” x 20”
Date: 1929
Title: “Zinnias, White and Orange”
Artist/Dates: Bert Carpenter, American, Born 1920
Medium: Lithograph
Size: 28” x 20”
Date: 1991
What else would you like to know about the art or the artists?
How can you find out?