North Attleborough Public Schools

Thematic Links Unit

INSIDE ARTWORKS

Discover meaning in artworks through observation, analysis and comparison

 Created by Mary Wojciechowski, Visual Arts Teacher, Middle School

Themes

Mothers and Children   Portraits    Landscapes      Animals      Still Life     War      Narrative Art     City and Country Dwellers      Loneliness     Bigger Than Life
Fantasy Worlds     Man and Nature   Children      Historic Events 
    The Human Condition: The Haves and Have-nots         An Artist's View of History     An Artist's Message    Artists' Views of Americans and Their Times    Objects
Self Portraits

 For thousands of years, artists have created works that have communicated ideas and expressed feelings in ways that spoken or written words cannot. Art is a universal language that crosses language barriers of different countries and engages viewers in unparalleled ways of knowing and understanding.
In this site you will find pairs of artworks with similar themes but often with distinctly different feelings, styles, moods, or meaning. These differences may have been influenced by the artist's environment, cultural beliefs, personal insight or particular historical events. To make best use of this site, teachers or students may use these works as a resource for examining, analyzing and judging artworks in a comparative way. The biographies and image information may also aid in understanding and appreciating the meaning and value of all types and styles of art.

Mothers and Children

Kathe Kollwitz

‘The Survivors’

Artist's Biography

Mary Cassatt

‘Mother and Child’

Artist's Biography

George Bellows

'Cliff Dwellers'

Image Information

Description of Ashcan School and ‘why’

Winslow Homer

'Long Beach New Jersey' 1869

Loneliness

Edward Hopper

‘Nighthawks’

Artist's Biography

George Segal

Biography and Images

Artist's Biography

Bigger Than Life

Georgia O’Keeffe

‘Light Iris’ 1924

Artist's Biography

Claes Oldenburg

‘Torn Notebook’ 1996

Fantasy Worlds

M.C. Escher

‘Reptiles’ 1943

Artist's  Biography

Rene Magritte

'Le Modelle Rouge III', 1937

Artist's Biography

 Man and Nature

Winslow Homer

'Gulf Stream'

Artist's Biography

Hokusai Katsushika

‘The Great Wave of Kanagawa’

The Human Condition: Children

Lewis Wickes Hine/ Photographer

'John Dempsey'

Mary Cassatt

‘Children on the Beach’

Artist's Biography

Jacob Lawrence

‘Migration of the Negro, Panel 59’, 1940-1941

'Migration Series' Background

Winslow Homer

‘Defiance: Inviting a Shot Before Petersburg, Virginia’ 1864

Artist's Biography

Human Condition:
The Haves and Have-nots

Dorothea Lange

‘Migrant Mother’

Artist's Biography

Norman Rockwell

‘Freedom From Want’

Artist's Biography

John James Audubon

'White Gerfalcon'

Artist's Biography

Franz Marc

  'Blue Horse', 1911

Biography

Norman Rockwell

‘Triple Self Portrait’

Still Life

William Harnett

'Music and Literature ' 1878

Janet Fish

'Butterfly Wings'

Artist's Biography

Pablo Picasso

'Guernica' Unveiled

Artist's Biography

Image  Information

Image

Roy Lichtenstein

Artist's Biography

Artist's Biography

Narrative Art

Jacob Lawrence

'Harriet Tubman series, no.20' 1939-1940

Image Information 

Christina's World Background

Biography

Leonardo

‘Mona Lisa’

Artist's Biography

Andy Warhol

Artist's Biography

Artist's Biography

Landscapes

Albert Bierstadt

‘Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite’

Vincent Van Gogh

"Starry Night’

Artist's Biography

Artist's Biography

An Artist’s Message

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