This gallery serves as a pre-reading lesson modeling critical thinking. Students will be guided through the process of analyzing a work of art using inference, prediction, clarifying, summarization, and synthesis. After teacher-led modeling of the process with Opo: The Hokianga Dolphin (#32) students will choose any of the paintings in the gallery to analyze as independent practice.
Opo: The Hokianga Dolphin (#32), Eric Lee-Johnson, 1955, From the collection of: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Use the Big 6 Reading Strategies as a means to interpret this photograph. Watch the video below for a refresher of the Big 6.
Vanitas - Still Life with Books and Manuscripts and a Skull, Edwaert Collier, 1663, From the collection of: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Choice 1
Trompe l'oeil. Board Partition with Letter Rack and Music Book, Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts, 1668, From the collection of: SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst
Choice 2
The Wannon Falls, Thomas CLARK, 1870, From the collection of: National Gallery of Australia
Choice 3
The Phantom Canoe: A Legend of Lake Tarawera, Kennett Watkins, 1888, From the collection of: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Choice 4
Tonnochy Road, Wan Chai, Kong Kai-ming, 1988, From the collection of: Hong Kong Museum of Art
Choice 5
Eruption of the Volcano Vesuvius, J.C. Dahl, 1821, From the collection of: SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst
Choice 6
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