Questioning A Painting and Thinking of Possible Answers by Molly Davidow https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o Our goal as a class is to understand this painting. Let's collect our questions about it here. Then, we'll try to answer the questions together. en-us 2016-10-18 21:25:59 UTC 2023-03-28 18:51:29 UTC hello@padlet.com molly_davidow https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131644486 2016-10-18 21:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131644486 Write your questions about this painting here... molly_davidow https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131644573 And your possible answers. 
Maybe...]]> 2016-10-18 21:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131644573 kriixxu https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131648361 What are the figures doing? What are their relationship?]]> 2016-10-18 22:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131648361 Question harry_liu_318 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131648761 Who is the house owner?

The old lady in the foreground could be the house owner.]]> 2016-10-18 22:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131648761 kriixxu https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649024 Why are there so many pictures in the house?]]> 2016-10-18 22:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649024 Question harry_liu_318 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649363 What is the painting trying to say?]]> 2016-10-18 22:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649363 Question alenhuang1314 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649365 When is the painting made?]]> 2016-10-18 22:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649365 wangjialu9 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649373 Why people all around that girl?]]> 2016-10-18 22:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649373 What is the species of the dog charlie_shen_2017 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649462 2016-10-18 22:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649462 diana19971231fy https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649511 Who owns the dog.]]> 2016-10-18 22:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649511 what is the species of dog charlie_shen_2017 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649539 2016-10-18 22:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649539 I don't get it --Bob bidaiwei https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649540 What are they talking about?
What's the background of the picture? --Bob]]> 2016-10-18 22:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649540 Question harry_liu_318 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649718 What are the pictures in the painting serve about?

It serves as a culture background. It illustrates that the house owner is well educated.]]> 2016-10-18 22:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649718 why someone looks 2424215238 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649823  very sad？？？

]]> 2016-10-18 22:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649823 what's the relationship among those people?? dakook7_xj https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649873 2016-10-18 22:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131649873 Question harry_liu_318 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650036 Who is the black man in the background?

The black man in the blackground is about to leave.]]> 2016-10-18 22:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650036 molly_davidow https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650096 @Alan: who looks sad? ]]> 2016-10-18 22:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650096 kriixxu https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650135 Who are belong to this family? Who are the visitors?]]> 2016-10-18 22:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650135 what is the purpose of drawing that? benor293 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650136 They looks like they were going to have a amazing play. BEN
They seems like kind of nervous.]]> 2016-10-18 22:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650136 Let's assume this painting depicts something like reality (no one is an alien and they're not in a spaceship). molly_davidow https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650300 What likely situation is the artist depicting in the painting? ]]> 2016-10-18 22:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650300 molly_davidow https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650414 Do we know what all of the objects in this image are? 

]]> 2016-10-18 22:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650414 Maybe these people are the workers, they are helping the painter to record the history of this family. diana19971231fy https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650812 2016-10-18 22:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131650812 Guess kriixxu https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651124 The little girl looks like gonna be married to the little boy.]]> 2016-10-18 22:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651124 Maybe girl is the main character in the painting. charlie_shen_2017 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651160 2016-10-18 22:29:00 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651160 May be they are preparing for the national day. bidaiwei https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651213 May be they are make up for the girl and preparing for the important activity. --Bob]]> 2016-10-18 22:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651213 The little girl is in upper class above many others in the painting dakook7_xj https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651228 2016-10-18 22:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651228 They dresse 2424215238 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651320  very well， so I think at that time. Only rich people can do painting.]]> 2016-10-18 22:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651320 I think that the little girl is very rich, because .those people around her. timyizx https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651336 2016-10-18 22:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651336 Gueses alenhuang1314 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651343 The relationship between the little boy and the old women near him might be mom and son.]]> 2016-10-18 22:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131651343 Do Now 10/19 kriixxu https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131864828 The little boy's family comes to welcome the little girl marry to his family. The ladies next to the girl with white skirt are her servants. They are helping the little girl wear the beautiful clothes and make up. ]]> 2016-10-19 17:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131864828 Who is there alenhuang1314 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131864873 There is a little boy who wearing red clothe. The boy may be the son of the women near him.]]> 2016-10-19 17:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131864873 Do Now 10/19/16 Harry Liu harry_liu_318 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131864968 There is a gigantic easel in the foreground, which indicates their culture backgrounds.]]> 2016-10-19 17:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131864968 Who is there? benor293 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865046 There is a painter there and also few women sitting there like getting the picture drawn.

]]> 2016-10-19 17:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865046 I think the man on the left is painting the girl in he middle dakook7_xj https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865101 2016-10-19 17:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865101   wangjialu9 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865173 Maybe the girl who sits in the center is the princess. ]]> 2016-10-19 17:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865173 What is happening frances_li_2017 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865585 They are painting a portrait for the girl in white dress in the middle.]]> 2016-10-19 17:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865585 Little girl and the painter are there charlie_shen_2017 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865601 2016-10-19 17:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865601 conniezhang0906 https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865688 I saw some girls talked in the room and a man was drawing pictures of them.  They might be people who born in rich families. ]]> 2016-10-19 17:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131865688 timyizx https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131868079 I saw a lot of people round the little girl. I think those people are servants.]]> 2016-10-19 17:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131868079 A  bidaiwei https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131868940 I think that's a princess in the picture and the others are making-up for her]]> 2016-10-19 17:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131868940 Maybe those people just help the little girl makeup for a very importance activity which should be her birthday.  Bobhuanzhimenghuo https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131872037 2016-10-19 17:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131872037 Maybe the painter who are painting for the power girl. Bobhuanzhimenghuo https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131873785 2016-10-19 17:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/molly_davidow/jt3uunoari5o/wish/131873785