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Research, art history, and web page creation! Sounds too good to be true. With tones of links and resources, the activity provides you with everything needed to engage the class in an amazing art and research activity. They create an art history timeline, research a conceptual artist, then create a web site to display the reasearch they've gathered.
Students explore the work of David Ireland. In this visual arts instructional activity, students watch a video segment about artist David Ireland, study images of his conceptual art pieces, and create their own conceptual art pieces.
Young scholars make observations of LeWitt's Four-Sided Pyramid using mathematical terms that apply. They create their own conceptual art plan using math concepts.
Students explore the different ways language is used in conceptual art. In this conceptual art lesson, students analyze artworks that emphasize ideas over form and the methods used in conceptual art. Students work in pairs to read and draw using the given instructions of Sol LeWitt. Students also make a paper sculpture.
This is a very skeletal lesson, but provides a very interesting teaching idea. Learners discuss Sol LeWitt and conceptual art, then analyze the differences in expressing a concept through model based inquiry and aesthetic art criticism. They develop a geometric, scientific, or mathematical concept, then create an artistic image to represent it.
In this permutations instructional activity, 6th graders solve and complete 5 different types of problems. First, they write a simple conceptual art plan with no more than 3 instructions. Then, students use graph paper and a pencil to draw a plan. They also compare the original plan with the conceptual art work produced.
Students explore the aims of artists working in various contemporary art movements, then create works in a similar art style to convey
Learners study art mediums and the reasons why artists work in specific mediums. In this art mediums lesson, students read a story about conceptual artist Jonathon Keats and his study on phylogenetic trees. Learners watch a video of his art and take notes. Students discuss the history of conceptual art and watch a PowerPoint of examples. Learners select a piece of art to analyze and then write an essay about the topic.
Students research recent movements within modern art and discover how they have influenced one another. Using an artist, they examine the life and works of him or her. They define conceptual art and work together in groups to create their own piece of art.
Students analyze non-traditional art. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze a work of art that values concept and process over product. Students also discuss the cloning of plants.