Focusing on the image above, respond to the follow directions. Please number your responses to keep organized:
1.) What is this man doing? How do we know?
2.) Pay attention to the light and shadows on the man. Where is the sun?
3.) How do you think the man feels in this sun? How do we know?
4.) Describe how Homer divided the scene in this painting.
4a.) In what bands are the man’s feet?
4b.) In what band is his body?
4c.) Where is the top of his head?
5.) Of what war was this man a veteran? How does Homer show us this in the painting?
6.) What might laying aside his uniform represent?
7.) Why is this a new field for him?
8.) If this man had been in a grain field the previous year, what would he probably have been doing?
9.) What does a figure carrying a scythe usually symbolize?
10.) Whose deaths might Homer be alluding to?
11.) What might a bountiful field of wheat represent?
12.) Because a seemingly dead seed buried in the ground rises as a new plant, grain can be a symbol of rebirth or new beginnings. What might this suggest about the country after the Civil War?
13.) What's another caption you would use for this image?
1.) What is this man doing? How do we know?
2.) Pay attention to the light and shadows on the man. Where is the sun?
3.) How do you think the man feels in this sun? How do we know?
4.) Describe how Homer divided the scene in this painting.
4a.) In what bands are the man’s feet?
4b.) In what band is his body?
4c.) Where is the top of his head?
5.) Of what war was this man a veteran? How does Homer show us this in the painting?
6.) What might laying aside his uniform represent?
7.) Why is this a new field for him?
8.) If this man had been in a grain field the previous year, what would he probably have been doing?
9.) What does a figure carrying a scythe usually symbolize?
10.) Whose deaths might Homer be alluding to?
11.) What might a bountiful field of wheat represent?
12.) Because a seemingly dead seed buried in the ground rises as a new plant, grain can be a symbol of rebirth or new beginnings. What might this suggest about the country after the Civil War?
13.) What's another caption you would use for this image?