2. A WALK IN THE BEACH
1.- Where are these women?
These women are walking in a
beach, near the sea-shore.
2.- Do you think they are friends?
I think they can be family or
friends, maybe they are sisters.
3.- What are they doing?
They are doing a walk on the wet
sand, near the shore.
4.- What season of the year is it?
I think it’s summer or
spring, because the sun is shining
brightly. One of the women is in short
sleeves.
5.- What is the weather like? Why do
you know?
It is a sunny but windy
day, because the women’s dresses are
blazing and one of the women is holding
her hat with a hand. Also, I think it’s
sunny because we can perfectly see
their shadows on the wet sand.
6.- What are they wearing? Is that
strange for you?
They are wearing long white dresses
and big hats. One of them is taking an
umbrella. T hey are also
3. A WALK IN THE BEACH
7.-When was this piece of art painted?
In 1.909.
8.-Why is one of them carrying an
umbrella?
One of them is carrying an umbrella
to project herself fro the sun.
9.-Does the girl with dark hair look
happy? Why do you think?
The girl with dark hair doesn’t look
happy because she is very serious;
maybe she is worry about something
because she is not talking to the other
woman.
4. THE KISS (R.LICHTENSTEIN)
1.-What are these people doing?
They are embracing each other
because they are saying goodbye.
Also the man is kissing the
woman.
2.-What’s the man’s job? How do
you know?
I think the man is a Marine
officer. We know this because
he’s wearing a cup that this kind
of sailors usesto wear.
3.-Has he just come back or is he
leaving now? Where from / to?
I think he’s leaving now, to war
or to a peace mission. I say this
because the man and the woman
look very sad; If the man has
just arrived, they will be
happier.
4.-Where is the man kissing the
woman? What do you think about
that?
The man is kissing the woman on
5. THE KISS (G.KLIMT)
COMPARE THIS KISS TO THE
PREVIOUS ONE. WHICH ONE WOULD
YOU PREFER? WHY?
The kiss in the previous painting is
not an passionate one. The woman and
the man are in love but in that moment
they are showing each other only
affection, because they are sad and it
is a farewell kiss. They are not
thinking in love, they are just feeling
desolation because the man is going far
away, maybe for long time.
In this other kiss, the feeling of
the couple of lovers looks very
different. They are relaxed and
happy. We don’t know if they are in
love, but we can appreciate that they
are kissing because they like each
other. Also, in this kiss there is
passion and intensity.
I prefer the kiss of Lichtenstein
because is like watching a movie scene;
it’s more real, more sensitive and the
message is clear.
I don’t like the kiss by Klimt
because I don’t understand it.
6. THE SINGING BUTLER
1.-What is the couple in the middle doing?
The couple in the middle is dancing on
the beach near the seashore.
2.-What are they wearing?
The are well-dressed: the woman is
wearing a long red dress, without
sleeves. The dress has a low neck at
the back. She is also wearing long red
gloves, which are the same colour as
the dress.
The man is wearing a black smoking
with a white shirt. He has black shoes
but the woman is shoeless.
3.- Where are they?
They are on a beach, on the
seashore, on wet sand.
4.- What’s the weather like?
The weather is cloudy and it’s
raining, because the servants are
taking umbrellas to protect them from
the rain.
7. THE SINGING BUTLER
5.- What’s the relation ship among these
four people?
The couple dancing in the middle
seems to be a lady and a sir because
they are very well-dressed and the
other two persons are their servants;
the man is the butler and perhaps, he’s
singing because the title of the
painting says so.
Both of the servants are wearing
uniforms and are protecting the other
couple with umbrellas because it’s
raining.
6.- Use two adjectives to describe each
couple.
The couple of servants: helpful and
obliging.
The couple dancing: rich and smart.
8. AUTOMAT
1.- Where is the woman?
The woman is sitting in a coffee-
bar, at a round table.
2.- What is she doing?
She is having a coffee or an tea.
3.- What is she wearing?
She is wearing a dress under a long
green coat. This coat has a fur
collar and cuffs. She is without
stockings and her skin looks very
pale
. She is also wearing a beige hat
and she has only one glove on her
left hand.
4.- What time is it, more and less?
I think it’s seven or eight in the
evening because it is very dark
outside. We can appreciate this fact
because at her back there is a wide
window and we can see that it’s late
because of the darkness.
9. AUTOMAT
5.- Is the weather nice?
I think it’s dry but cold because there
is a radiator inside the bar and the
woman is wearing the coat inside of
the place.
6.- In your opinion, how does the woman
feel?
In my opinion she is worry and tired;
she is alone, perhaps because she
doesn’t want to talk to anybody in that
moment. Maybe she want to a party
and now she has a headache or she is
thinking in something that happened in
that party.
10. FISHING IN SPRING
1.- What is the man doing?
The man is fishing or preparing himself to
fish.
2.- Where is he?
He is inside a rowing boat, in a river; I
think the river is the Seine, in Paris.
3.- What else can you see in the picture?
I can see a beautiful bridge behind the
fisherman. Some people are walking on the
bridge; beside the boat where the fisherman
is, there is another rowing boat, but this
one is empty: there is nobody inside. Far
away I think we can see some houses or
buildings. Also there are a lot of trees and
bushes.
4.- What month is it?
As it is spring, it can be April, May or
June. I think it is May because the
fisherman is wearing a jacket so it must be
a little cold.
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5.- What colours can you see?
There is a mixture of colours because
the painting represents a scene which
occurs in nature: we can see a quiet river
surrounded by trees and grass. That is
why we can appreciate a clear blue in the
river with bright highlights of the sun
that give a purple tonality to the water.
Another colour is green, a light green in
all the trees and bushes that are placed
on the river bank.
6.- Do you like this painting?
Yes, I like it very much because it is
very relaxing. Also I can understand it
very well because of its realism.
12. BATHERS AT ASNIERES
1.- Where are these people?
These people are having a bath in a
river or in a lake. All of them are
men, some are on the river
bank, others on the grass and two
are inside the water.
2.- What is there at the back?
At the back we can see something
like an industrial zone. There is
smoke going out from tall chimneys
that give a dirty impression on the
sky.
3.- How is that related to the people in
the painting?
Those factories that we can see in
the distance show as that this
painting is about industry and the
working class. That’s why I think
that the bathers in the river are
workers that are having a peasant
moment before going back to work in
13. BATHERS AT ASNIERES
4.- What are they doing?
Some of the men are laying on the
grass, sunbathing; one of them is sitting
in the river bank, with his legs inside the
water. Another two are bathing in the
water without swimming.
The figures seem solitary although they
are in group.
5.- Is it a weekend? How do you know? Is it
winter?
No, not is not a weekend because there
are only men in the scene. I think that
at the weekend the whole family goes to
have a nice day in the river. There would
be women and lots of children. So, it
must be a working day.
It seems that it is hot, so it isn’t
winter; I think it’s summer or spring.
14. BATHERS AT ASNIERES
6.- How old do you think they are?
All of them are middle-age, perhaps
they can be twenty or thirty. The person
that is inside the water with his hands in
the mouth can be the youngest, maybe
sixteen or seventeen. He is not as old as
the other men.
7-. Use adjectives two to describe them.
Tired and thoughtful.
15. THE ACCOLADE
1.- Who is that woman? And the man?
She is the Grail Queen bestowing a
knight. He is the man that is going to
be ordered as a knight.
2.- What is she doing with that sword?
Why?
In the Middle Ages, the accolade was
the central act in the ceremonies
conferring knighthood. The knight
kneels in front of the Queen and she
lays the flat side of the sword blade
onto the accolade’s right shoulder.
After this kind of ceremony, the new
knight stands up after being promoted
and the Queen presents him with the
insignia of his new order.
16. THE ACCOLADE
3.- What are the people at the
background thinking?
The people of the background
perhaps have just been ordered
knights, because some of them look
older than the man that stands in
front of the Queen. But among the
group there is a young man that sure
is yearning for the day when he too
will be knighted.
4.- When did this happen?
I think that this happened in the
Middle Ages, in the feudal society.
5.- Would you like to be that man or
that woman? Why?
I wouldn’t like to be the Queen
because everybody hopes that you
always will act correctly, and that
your obligation is being just. It is too
much responsibility for me. So I
prefer to be the man, because those
soldiers and knights are very brave
and their lives should be very active
and exciting.
17. THE THREE AGES OF WOMEN
1.- What can you see in the picture?
The painting presents three women
at different times of their lives. The
three female figures are surrounded
by a sea of bubbles representative of
life: the youngest is the baby; she is
being held by the mother that is still
young but she is an adult. Last, it is
the old woman, standing next to them
and looking down.
2.- What does the mother look like?
The mother looks young, she can be
twenty or twenty-five. She is
beautiful and she is nude. She is
blonde and white skinned. She is also
slim and seems fragile.
3.- How do mother and child feel?
Mother and child are embraced and
she is protecting the baby. She has
her head over the baby’s
one, expressing her maternal love
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WOMEN
4.- Why is this painting called “the
three ages of women”?
The painting is called “The three
ages of women” because it presents
the three women at three different
moments of their lives. The three
representations of the women are as
three symbols: born, live and the old
age.
19. THE HORSE’S BATH
Last year my grandmother went to Malaga
and when she came back she brought a
present for me. This was a copy paper
of a painting called “El baño del caballo”
by Joaquín Soroya.
I don’t know much about painters, but this
picture was special for me because
there is a horse in it and I love horses.
It is a beautiful white horse and his
face shows goodness and fidelity. A boy
is taking him out of the sea and I think
that they have just have a a bath
together.
It must be something very pleasant going
to a beach and have a nice day with
your horse and also have the possibility
of swimming with him. Nowadays we
can’t do that because it is forbidden.
To imagine the whole scene of the boy
