Over the next two lessons, the students should be shown several paintings that deal with the idea of individuality. The goal here is to get them to recognize different ways that artists depict ‘the individual’. The paintings that I have chosen will be:
Traveler Overlooking a Sea of Fog
(by Caspar David Friedrich, 1818),
The Young Wife: First Stew
(by Lilly Martin Spencer, 1854),
Veteran in a New Field
(by Winslow Homer, 1865), and
Girl in a Big Hat
(by Thomas Eakins, 1888). These paintings can be changed or supplemented, as long as the idea is kept of a single person in the frame, who looks contemplative and individualistic in dress, expression, or action.
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