Charles Demuth(November 8, 1883 – October 23, 1935) was an American watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism.

His most famous painting, The Figure Five in Gold, was inspired by his friend William Carlos Williams's poem "The Great Figure". I Saw the Figure Five in Gold, [is] a painting whose title and medallion-like arrangement of angled forms were both inspired by a verse the poet wrote after watching a fire engine streak past him on a rainy Manhattan street while waiting for [a friend], whose studio he was visiting, to answer his door." Describing its importance, Judith H. Dobrzynski in The Wall Street Journal wrote: "It's the best work in a genre Demuth created, the "poster portrait". It's a decidedly American work made at a time when U.S. artists were just moving beyond European influences and led to American Modernism. It anticipates pop art.

The Great Figureby William Carlos WilliamsPublished in Sour Grapes (1921), it inspired a painting by Charles Demuth

Among the rain

and lights

I saw the figure 5

in gold

on a red

firetruck

moving

tense

unheeded

to gong clangs

siren howls

and wheels rumbling

through the dark city

The Figure Five in Gold

Projet: Numeros et Couleurs Nom: ____________

Due: ____________Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth

For your Colour & Numbers Project, you will: Decide on a number between 0 and 9. Decide on a medium - the choice of material you want to use to

create your project (paint, pencil crayons, crayons, oil pastel). Decide on colour palette - warm, cool, primary or complimentary

colors. Notice the lines and colour choice of the artist. Begin to plan your own project. Take your time; you will need to do a minimum of 6 mini-designs

before you start your good copy. Be prepared to share your creation using the ideas from Number

5 in Gold and the presentation example shown below. Sharing date is ______________.

You will present your project in an oral presentation on ________. Your oral presentation will follow the model below:

Bonjour, je m’appelle______________________.C’est mon projet avec des numeros et des couleurs.Mon numero favori est le numero cinq.Mon dessin est un grand cinq rouge et deux petits cinq rouges.Mon dessin est les couleurs rouge, jaune, orange, bleu, vert et violet. Je fais le dessin avec la peinture.

You may choose one of the following mediums: la peinture, les crayons du bois, les crayons cire, ou les pastels d’huile.

Your oral presentation must be smooth and clear, loud enough for the audience in the back of the class to hear and demonstrate proper pronunciation. You can use the following website to practice your pronunciation before you are due to present: http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/ Colour Palettes:

Primary: Use only red, blue and yellow with their tints and shades

Secondary: Use only orange, green and purple with their tints and shadesCool: only cool colours (colours made with blue) with their tints and shadesWarm: only warm colours (colours made with yellow, orange and red but not colours made with blue) with their tints and shadesNeutrals: Greys, and browns with their tints and shadesComplementary: only one pair with their tints and shades (pairs: yellow & purple or blue & orange or green and red)Monochromatic: one colour with its tints and shades

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