Ways of Seeing | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

The European Oil Painting - This is a genre or type of visual art which begins around 1500.

The Camera - This is a mechanical device whose invention disproves the idea of center and single eye.

The Nude - This is a category of European oil painting in which women regularly appear as the subject.

The Naked Body - This is as one is without clothes, or unclothed.

The Landscape - This is an image that is called genre pictures that depict real life as an antidote to mythology and classic forms.

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