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Questions to Facilitate DBAE Discussions

© Colleen Madonna Williams

Discussion is an extremely important part of the DBAE experience. Use the following questions to help engage your students in meaningful conversations about master artworks.

Questions to help your students explore an artwork.

1.What is the focus of the artwork?

2.In what way is this artwork organized?

3.How was this artwork made?

4.In what ways do your artworks tell about your experience?

5.Who made this artwork?

6.Do artworks have to be in museums?

7.Do artworks tell us about the artists who made them? How?

8.What elements can you point out in this artwork?

9.Does this artwork make you think? What about?

10.Why do artists create artworks?

11.What warm and cool colors do you see?

12.What kinds of symmetry can you find in this work?

13.What paint techniques can you see in this work? 14.How would this artwork feel if you could touch it?

15.What shapes did the artist use? Find a geometric shape. Find a freeform (or organic) shape.

16.Tell me what is going in on this artwork?

17.What was the artist trying to do or say with this artwork?

18.Do you like this work? Why or why not?

19.Why did the artist use the colors in this artwork? Could you make something similar? How?

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