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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the elements of composition in various artworks. They analyze and discuss paintings, explore "The National Gallery of Art" website, identify the shape of compositions in paintings, and draw a diagram. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine and identify the elements of composition in a variety of artworks. They discuss various artworks, explore websites, and identify how composition elements make the work successful as a painting. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students identify and discuss the basic shapes used in artistic still-life compositions. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students complete a variety of activities as they study the basics of artistic composition in the visual arts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate how artists create a story that provides a message or provokes emotions in a single image. The ways in which the composition of a painting contributes to telling the story or conveying the message is examined in this lesson. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students share the difficulties they have in determining what to write or draw for a project. In groups, they view examples from three different artists and discuss how their personal experiences affected their art. They brainstorm a list of issues they are concerned about, pick only one and create a piece of art reflecting their views. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students evaluate and critique both their own and other students work while creating their own art pieces in this two-week lesson. This can be combined with a photography lesson to form a unit of study on Compositional techniques. Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students research Hispanic artists. They complete a handout about their artist. Students brainstorm a list of vocabulary relating to the theme of art. Students choose one work of art by each artist studied, and copy these for the paper notebook. Students choose one work of art and write a description. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 9th
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Students discover art that contains composite imagery and visual puns. They create their own picture of composite imagery and explain the visual pun. Students develop skills using the drawing media. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students identify different kinds of narratives used in a number of art works, discuss artist's use of compositional elements to further the story and/or convey a message within a work of art, and explain relationship between composition and content in a number of works of art. Full Review »
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