Learners 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. Learners study the image At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance and discuss the story...

Students analyze two of Dorothea Lange's portraits and create their own portraits of classmates. In this portrait analysis instructional activity, students define portrait and discuss two images of Lange's. Students interview a classmate...

Students examine three landscapes incorporating images from nature and the unconscious. In this art analysis lesson, students explore the artists' perception and impact on a subject. Students complete image based discussion and imagine...

Learners 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. Learners complete...

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...

Students examine identity represented in contemporary drawing. In this art analysis activity, students analyze identity in the art images. Students complete image based discussion. Students create a work on paper with a message. Students...

Students analyze chair design for its art. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze the art in the designs of chairs. Students complete image based discussion. Students complete three related projects.

Students analyze art pieces of Picasso and Diego Velazquez to consider artists self-portraits using their work tools. In this art analysis lesson plan, students complete introductory and image based discuss to consider how an artist...

Learners analyze how a poet uses language to capture creatures and draft a poem on a 'sinister' animal. For this poetry analysis lesson, students read Ted Hughes' poem 'Pike' and analyze pictures of pike fish. Learners use their research...

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...

Students analyze the art of movement and photographic techniques. In this art analysis lesson, students explore artistic techniques for communicating motion. Students complete image based discussion. Students make two drawings that...

Students explore graphic design by using color wheels to color images.  In this art analysis lesson, students utilize Adobe Photoshop to experiment with coloring old images and removing all color as well.  Students self...

Students analyze the period of Belle Epoque and the methods of art that signified popular culture. In this art analysis lesson plan, students consider the ways popular culture influenced art by analyzing the images and completing image...

Students analyze art and examples of Cubism art. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze how artists use symbols and complete image based discussion. Students make a list of technological innovations and design a symbol for each...

Students make connections between two design objects intended for different purposes and analyze the social and political meaning in the designs. In this design analysis instructional activity, students complete image based discuss...

Students consider criteria for art and explore three works of art that challenge their definitions. In this art analysis lesson plan, students consider their definitions of art and how Dada and Surrealist artists challenged the...

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...

Students explore the conventions of portraiture and the technique of photo-montage. In this art analysis instructional activity, students define portraiture and analyze the pictured pieces of art. Students make a photo-montage portrait...

Learners analyze identify in art. In this art analysis lesson, students discuss what identify means and discuss how Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Dorothea Lange, and Alberto Giacometti represent identities in portraiture. Learners complete...

Students analyze Pop artists and their art. In this art analysis instructional activity, students consider the choices and mediums Pop art artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Jasper Johns. Students make...

Learners analyze three dimensional art that uses a variety of materials and is part of Minimalist art. In this art analysis lesson, students explore artists' choices for materials and their use of space. Learners complete image based...

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....

Students examine photographs from newspapers and write a headline and story for one of the examples. For this news writing lesson, students analyze a photograph as a class and discuss it. Students analyze photographs and example...

Young scholars analyze art and war and the Futurist movement. In this art analysis lesson, students define manifesto and its role with artistic movement. Young scholars explore art as a response to political and social issues through...