1. Field Trip Reminders Field Trip – Monday 9/23/13 (3 rd and 5 th period) **bring lunch or money to buy lunch **bring a piece of paper and a pencil (no pens allowed in the museum!) Meet in the front lobby at the beginning of 3 rd period. We will leave promptly at 10:30. Your 3 rd and 5 th period teacher will know that you are on a field trip. You are responsible for any work you miss.

2. Writer’s Eye

4. Descriptive Writing *Descriptive writing offers a portrayal of a person, place, or thing, and gives the reader a more vivid experience. *General characteristics of descriptive writing include: *Elaborate use of sensory language; *Rich, vivid, and lively detail; *Figurative language such as simile, hyperbole, metaphor, symbolism, personification; *Showing, rather than telling through the use of active verbs and precise modifiers.

5. Let’s Practice! Fact Words: Who? What? Why? Where? When?

6. Let’s Practice! Descriptive Sense Words:

7. Let’s Practice! What do the colors make you think of or feel? What sounds do you think you would hear if you were in the scene? What would you feel if you were in the scene? If you could touch something in the piece, how would it feel? What might you smell or taste if you were in the scene?

8. Let’s Practice! Create metaphors and similes by using the following beginnings, or some similar to these; avoid clichés: The grass was soft, like…. Her face was as red as… Gentle as… The buildings in the city are tall men …

9. Writer’s Eye 2013 Selections http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/pdf/WE2013/selections_3_12.pdf

10. Jean Arp French, b. Germany 1886-1966 Oriforme, modeled 1962 Fabricated 1977 Stainless steel

11. Emily Kame Kngwarreye Australian c. 1910 - 96 Ankerre (Emu), 1990 Utopia, Northern Territory Acrylic on canvas

12. Michael Krueger American, b. 1967 Changing of the Guards, 2012 Lithograph

13. Ansel Adams American, 1902-84 White House Ruin, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1942 Gelatin silver print

14. Ansel Adams American, 1902-84 Itinerant, Merced, California c. 1936 Gelatin silver print

15. Ansel Adams American, 1902-84 Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 Gelatin silver print

16. Unknown Artist Portrait of Lloyd Patterson (b. 1910, Bronx, NY – d. 1942, Moscow, USSR) Oil on canvas

17. Henri Matisse French, 1869-1954 Jeannette III, 1911 Bronze

18. Hermon Atkins MacNeil American, 1866-1947 The Sun Vow, 1899, cast 1919 Bronze

19. Robert Adams American, b. 1937 Untitled from Prairie. 1965-73 Gelatin silver print

20. Mike Osborne American, b. 1978 Vertellus (Valley II), 2012 Archival inkjet print

21. Emilie Charmy French, 1878-1974 Card Players, c. 1899 Oil on canvas

22. Emilie Charmy French, 1878-1974 Young Girl in an Armchair c. 1900 Oil on board

23. Emilie Charmy French, 1878-1974 Corsica, 1907 Oil on canvas

24. Emilie Charmy French, 1878-1974 Still Life, c. 1904 Oil on canvas

25. Unknown Artist Hungarian (Bohemian), 15 th c. Figurines possibly based on Designs by Masolino, Italian 1383 – c. 1447 Processional Crucifix, c. 1425-35 Enamel, silver, gilt bronze over iron core

26. Unknown Artist Shiva, 18 th c. or earlier South India Granite

27. Pair of Moccasins, 1880-1910 Kaui-gu (Kiowa) peoples, Southern Plains region, probably Oklahoma Tanned leather and glass beads