1. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Integrated Art Lessons: A Classroom Resource for Teachers
Presented by:
Cameron Art Museum
3201 South 17th Street
Wilmington, North Carolina 28412
In cooperation with:
The A+ Schools Program
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Funded by a grant from the Corning Foundation
Author: Martha Burdette

2. Lesson Fourteen Integrated Concepts
Language Arts: descriptive language, oral language
Mathematics: three dimensional shapes
Visual Art: shape/form, simplification/abstraction, light and shadow, composition

3. One of the most widely popular forms of art is still-life painting.
In still-life painting, the artist arranges objects such as fruit,
vegetables, containers, cloths in an interesting composition and
makes a painting of that arrangement.

4. In some still-life paintings, the artist chooses to make the
objects appear very realistic.
What objects do you recognize in this painting?

5. In other paintings, the artist may choose to paint the objects
in the still-life in ways that make it difficult for the viewer to
recognize them.

6. Take a few minutes and
observe this painting
very carefully.
What objects can you
identify in this painting?
What do you see that
you can not recognize?
Do you see things that
seem to be broken?
Can you be sure where
objects are located in the
picture?

7. This painting is a good example of how artists use shape to
create an illusion. We know that plates are usually round,
but the plates in this image are painted as oval shapes.
They look that way because the artist is showing us they are
flat on a surface and he is not looking straight down at them.

8. The artist is showing the viewer that the fruit are spheres,
not just flat circles by painting a shadow on the right side
of some fruit and by painting a shadow underneath the
side of some.

9. If you look carefully at the goblet in the center of this
painting you will see the artist has used light and dark
paint to look like shadow here too.

10. Information about the art and the artists
Title: “Abstraction”
Artist/Dates: Frank London. American,
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 27” x 22”
Date: 1944
Title: “Peeled Orange and Pear”
Artist/Dates: Hobson Pittman, American,
Medium: pastel
Size: 8.75” x 22.5”
Date: c. 1965
Title: “Virginia Tomatoes on Blue Silk Scarf”
Artist/Dates: Wright-Frierson, Virginia, American, born 1949
Medium: watercolor
Size: 7.5” x 10.75”
Date: 1982
What else would you like to know about the art or the artists?
How can you find out?