Curated OER
Bug Jars
Students explore symmetry. Students observe a variety of bug and plant drawings, then draw a bug jar. Students observe bugs from the top of the jar for a symmetrical view, and the side of the jar for an asymmetrical view. ...
Curated OER
Facial Symmetry
Learners study facial symmetry. They explore lines of symmetry, and create illustrations with multiple lines of symmetry.
Curated OER
African Masks
Students make replicas of African masks. They also express what attributes they would want to have as an adult and put that into their mask.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Can It?
Pop artists used consumer products, advertising, and popular culture icons as the major source for subject matter in their art. Between 1962 and 1967, Andy Warhol painted soup cans, both individually and in groups. 100 Cans is one of the...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: 3 D "Special Space" Painting
Jim Dine's Child's Blue Wall combines sculpture and painting. It is both a realistic depiction of a child's bedroom and an abstract painting of a night sky. This lesson plan explores how Dine accomplished these two ideas in the same work...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Balance
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is the encyclopedia entry for balance which covers symmetry and asymmetry, balance with color, and other types of balance.