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Our mystery painting goes vertically and looks like a long half face with a sail on top of the left hand side. Divide your paper into thirds. In the top of the right hand corner, there is a black rectangle. In the upper left hand corner, there is one fourth of a circle. It is also black. Under the black rectangle, there is a smaller red rectangle underlined with a black line. On the left of the red rectangle there is a small brown rectangle. Below the brown rectangle is an orange square of the same dimensions. In the middle section, there is a rectangle on both sides of the head. Both rectangles have little circles in them. The circle on the right is lower then the circle on the left. The sail on the top of the head goes south west until it hits the square with a circle in it on the left. There is a line that represents the nose, running down the middle of the mid-section. To the right of the nose, there is a red shape, rectangular on the top and trapezoidal on the bottom, longer on the left. At the bottom of the painting there is a grayish white half circle for the mouth centered below the nose. A peach color almost surrounds the half circle, The tip of the peach color stops at the left hand side of the half circle. The other half is surrounded by a brownish color. The whole thing is surrounded by an orange colored outline. The background is black.
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Analysis
by Roger and Ethan
Our painting was painted by Alexej von Jawlensky in 1962. The original name for our painting is "Kopf: Rotes Licht," which means "Head: Red Light." It was painted on cardboard with oil wax. The painting is 21 by 19 inches. The painting is in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Our partners used the right colors like orange, black and red. They only used two of the right shapes. They arranged every thing correctly, but left out some things. They did a good job on the arrangement.
We could have said that the face had an outline. We think that the description of the shapes confused them. We could have made it clearer by saying "1/2 of the shape is ______," or something like that. Our partners did very well with a confusing description like ours.
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