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Picasso Portraits

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students investigate the style of art known as cubism. They study Picasso and create a cubism portrait. Students work in partners to survey the basic symmetry of the face and head. They research the progression into cubism that Picasso...
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Artist Research

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars research an artist of their choice on the internet. They are provided with questions (worksheets included with the instructional activity) as a guide for their research. Students choose an artwork by their artist to critique.
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Europe in the 1920s

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Delicately poised after the dramatic end of WWI and the startling beginning of WWII, this presentation encompassing the positions and roles of Germany, Italy, England, France, and the League of Nations in the 1920's. The first half of...
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Pablo Picasso - Slab Construction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a three or four-sided vessel incorporating abstracted faces on each side. Vessels should be irregular in shape. They demonstrate skills and craftsmanship in working with clay and explore hand-building methods of construction
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Joseph Holston Exhibition Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students, in groups, view original artworks by Joseph Holston in a gallery space. They create a genre work of art that emphasizes the use of the artistic elements line, color, and shape.
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Van Gogh in the First Grade

For Teachers 1st
First graders design projects based on work of Van Gogh.  In this Van Gogh arts lesson, 1st graders review and and model artwork prior to creating their own landscape project in watercolor.  
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People at Work

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students observe people at work and draw them in pencil or charcoal in high contrast values.
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2oth-Century Painters: Master of Color

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe how the work of the artists reflected the their lives and times, and how they inspired new artistic movements. They compare and contrast the works of the two artists at different periods in their lives. Students view a...
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Cubist Self Portraits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate how other artists have expressed their ideas in a visual way. They practice on how to use oil pastels. Students consider what ideas about them are important and what ideas they want to visually communicate...
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People at Work

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students observe people at work. They create their own drawings of those people at their jobs.
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Painting Music

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils convey the concept that music expresses different moods. Using paint, students draw various artistic elements that convey the mood of a piece of music they hear in class. They complete an analysis of classical paintings and how...
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Field of Dreams

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students study several of Marc Chagall's paintings with an emphasis on his use of symbolic color and of space. They explore learn basic techniques for using Scholar colored pencils, and create an artwork using a baseball theme.
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Distortion Unleashed

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners view examples of man-made structures and create a building that matches the style. Using the internet, they research the style of Frank Lloyd Wright and create plans for creating their own community. They use a painting of...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Double Vision

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pablo's Picasso's La Toilette is a loving portrait of Fernande Olivier, as well as a study in opposites and a reference to the history of art. In this lesson, students will discover the many levels of content in the painting through...
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Albright Knox Art Gallery: Personified Sculpture

For Teachers K - 1st
After learning about Fernand Leger's sculpture, students will learn basic concepts of modern dance, create their own movements, select sounds or music, and combine all of these in a modern dance performance.
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Kinder Art

Kinderart: Daydreaming With Marc Chagall

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
The goal of this lesson is to explore the concepts of surrealism and early cubism that Chagall portrayed in his work. Students will create works of art inspired by artist Marc Chagall's painting I and the Village.
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Finding Polygons in Cubist Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan has young scholars identifying the use of polygons in cubist portraits.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: A Man and His Murals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A unit on the Mexican artist, Diego Rivera, that could be adapted to various grades. Includes lesson plans, a glossary, a bibliography for teachers and young scholars, and plenty of information on Diego Rivera.

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