questions to answer in your journal

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER IN YOUR JOURNAL

•How are things arranged? Is the arrangement like real life or is it more like a pattern or a design? •Is this image fact or fantasy?

• Support your answer.•Does it tell a story (a narrative)?•Can you tell the setting of this artwork? •Who or what are the characters in this artwork? Are they ordinary people and animals?•Where else would we find these characters?

•What shapes are repeated?•Is there a line of symmetry?•Is there a background?•What colors do you notice?•Is there a lot of space between the shapes or are they crowded?

•How long do you think it took the artist to create each one?

Minnie Evans1892-1987•North Carolina (Wilmington), folk artist

INTRO TO MINNIE

She said "I had a dream, its voice spoke to me: ‘Why don't you draw or die?' ‘Is that it?,' I said, ‘My, My.'" Her son, George, was in the house and said she came out her bedroom door "screaming and hollering." That morning she completed a pair of small pen-and-ink drawings on paper.

“I have never remembered sleeping without dreaming”

•Began to draw and paint at the age of 43

• Five years later she decided to really dedicate herself to recording her dreams through art. Manifested from her imagination and dreams, visions that are transformed to paper and canvas.

• Used ink, graphite, wax crayon, watercolor and oil on canvas, board and paper

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