Homework-January 12, 2016

ART HOMEWORK

January 12, 2015

Stillwagon

Look at the painting and the poem from the Holocaust survivor, Chava Wolf. Complete one of the levels below.

Level 1: Describe the artist’s style of writing and her style of painting.

Level 2: Describe the artist’s style of writing and her style of painting. How are the styles different? Explain.

Level 3:  Describe the artist’s style of writing and her style of painting. How are the styles different? Explain. Why do you think she paints so differently than she writes?

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Tears / Chava Wolf

My eyes are tearing
A drop falls
Holding pain within
Bodies, bodies
Packed on carts
Appear before my eyes
A child looks on and cries.

People, children
Are no more
Images, images
Horror to behold
To shout, to be silent?
Should I tell?
And I cry
Still shedding tears,
Every day                                       

Every hour
Over a vanished childhood.

Chava Wolf: “Here I express my pain in words [in the accompanying poem 'Tears']. And in the painting I embellish it.”

You paint with intense colors. What is the meaning of color for you?

I am obsessed with colors. I have to go twice a week into the city, near the open market, to see lots of colors. When I see a nice fabric, I buy it. When I see a nice bag, I buy it because of the colors. I am partial to colors, maybe because of the black that [life] was once. When I tell my story I find myself back there. I am still the same young girl. If I can paint with those colors, it is a sign that I am still optimistic. I write in black on white and I paint with color and hide my pain.

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