Summary
Watt's class is painting a mural and Watt is stuck for an idea, so he goes to the art museum for inspiration. He finds that different artists made very different pictures for very different reasons. A short, low-stakes intro to looking at art on purpose.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Three quick questions to run after the short.
- Which artwork in the museum did you like most, and why?
- Why do artists make art? Name two different reasons.
- What would you paint on a mural for our school?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: museum, mural, artist.
Try it: Sketch one idea for a class mural and write one sentence about what it shows.