START WITH ART: Folk Dance

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Title: Folk Dance

Artist: Cyril Power

Date: 1932

Medium: Linocut on paper

Dimensions: 22.00 x 24.60 cm

Start with Art Questions:

• What lines and shapes make up the dancers? 

• Do you notice the repetition? What details repeat in the artwork? 

• Compare the dancers to this image of acrobats by the same artist. What differences and similarities do you see?