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Philadelphia Museum of Art

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students study paintings and use their knowledge of story elements to analyze the art. In this art analysis activity, students review a novel for its elements. Students study the image At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance and discuss the story...
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Portraits That Capture Character

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students analyze two of Dorothea Lange's portraits and create their own portraits of classmates. In this portrait analysis lesson, students define portrait and discuss two images of Lange's. Students interview a classmate and use Lange's...
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Landscapes: Real and Imagined

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine three landscapes incorporating images from nature and the unconscious. In this art analysis lesson plan, students explore the artists' perception and impact on a subject. Students complete image based discussion and...
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Modern Landscapes

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars analyze the artistic responses to the changing landscape during the interwar period. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze landscape images and consider the ways artists depicted the changing landscape. Young...
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Artist's Choice: People

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students examine the different artistic styles of three artists and the stereotypes of women they represent in their art. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze the art of Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, and Richard Hamilton...
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Identity

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners examine identity represented in contemporary drawing. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze identity in the art images. Learners complete image based discussion. Students create a work on paper with a message. Learners...
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Take a Seat: Exploring Chair Design

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners analyze chair design for its art. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze the art in the designs of chairs. Learners complete image based discussion. Students complete three related projects.
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The Artist at Work

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze art pieces of Picasso and Diego Velazquez to consider artists self-portraits using their work tools. In this art analysis lesson, students complete introductory and image based discuss to consider how an artist chooses...
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Ted Hughes "Pike"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze how a poet uses language to capture creatures and draft a poem on a 'sinister' animal. In this poetry analysis lesson, students read Ted Hughes' poem 'Pike' and analyze pictures of pike fish. Students use their research...
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Portraiture

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students compare portraits focusing on the artists' choices in medium, composition, and meaning. In this portrait analysis lesson, students analyze the art pieces for their medium, composition, and meaning. Students create a...
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Art and Movement

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Pupils analyze the art of movement and photographic techniques. In this art analysis lesson, students explore artistic techniques for communicating motion. Pupils complete image based discussion. Students make two drawings that...
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Creative Color Wheel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore graphic design by using color wheels to color images.  For this art analysis lesson, students utilize Adobe Photoshop to experiment with coloring old images and removing all color as well.  Students self...
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Popular Culture

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze the period of Belle Epoque and the methods of art that signified popular culture. In this art analysis lesson, students consider the ways popular culture influenced art by analyzing the images and completing image based...
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Rise of the Modern World

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners analyze art and examples of Cubism art. In this art analysis instructional activity, students analyze how artists use symbols and complete image based discussion. Learners make a list of technological innovations and design a...
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Ideal Objects

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students make connections between two design objects intended for different purposes and analyze the social and political meaning in the designs. For this design analysis lesson, students complete image based discuss activities. Students...
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Transforming Everyday Objects

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students consider criteria for art and explore three works of art that challenge their definitions. In this art analysis lesson, students consider their definitions of art and how Dada and Surrealist artists challenged the conventions....
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Revealing Process

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students investigate the method of collage in art in part of a study of Dada and Surrealist art. In this art analysis lesson plan, students explore how artists incorporated materials from everyday life into their art works. Students...
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Portraiture

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the conventions of portraiture and the technique of photo-montage. In this art analysis lesson plan, students define portraiture and analyze the pictured pieces of art. Students make a photo-montage portrait or...
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Identity

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze identify in art. In this art analysis lesson plan, students discuss what identify means and discuss how Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Dorothea Lange, and Alberto Giacometti represent identities in portraiture. Students...
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Transforming Everyday Objects

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze Pop artists and their art. In this art analysis lesson, students consider the choices and mediums Pop art artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Jasper Johns. Students make connections between...
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Constructing Space

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze three dimensional art that uses a variety of materials and is part of Minimalist art. In this art analysis lesson plan, students explore artists' choices for materials and their use of space. Students complete image...
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Gesture and Chance

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the role of chance in creating Dada art and analyze the idea of gesture. In this art analysis lesson, students consider gesture in drawings and the role of chance in Dada art. Students complete image based discussion....
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Extra, Extra Write All About It!

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Pupils examine photographs from newspapers and write a headline and story for one of the examples. In this news writing lesson, students analyze a photograph as a class and discuss it. Pupils analyze photographs and example headlines...
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Art and War

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars analyze art and war and the Futurist movement. In this art analysis lesson plan, students define manifesto and its role with artistic movement. Young scholars explore art as a response to political and social issues...