IMO - On one hand, the images are like a "Where's Waldo?" book. For a student that interested is in looking at an image for a long period of time, these pictures are eye candy. On the other hand, the concept of time between the artworks would be incomprehensible to a young child. I also think the comparing of two artworks in kindergarten is a bit much, since they are learning how to look at artwork. Both images lack in accessibility also. To understand the Breugel on even a surface level, one would need to know about rural life and the name of most of the objects in the painting. I think a lack of perquisite knowledge would prevent them from getting the overall feel of "community," even though they would be fascinated with it. The Beardon has lots of colors, but it isn't easily readable. Even on a large screen, the collaged black and white images are hard to see. The students would have to be right up to the image to see some of the figures. It would be hard to VTS. I think that both artworks, though interesting, may be better suited for a second grader who has the capacity to "read" an artwork or book.
The common core units each have a theme, and there has been little unity in the sequence of artwork between the units. I would fail most of the common core images if I judged them by Yenawine's suggestions for beginning viewers. It is obvious this part of the curriculum was not field tested before implementation. (But really, none of it was!) Not that I have an opinion on the matter. I like my job ;).
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