Woodcut

Students create replicas of Japanese woodblock prints using their own art as the basis for design in this excellent cross-curricular Art project applicable to Language Arts, Social Studies, or Art classrooms.

Students analyze the influence of travel on modern artists and discuss unusual use of medium.  In this modern artists instructional activity, students discover works of Gauguin, Matisse, and Kandinsky. Students look at ways these artists...

Young scholars 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. Young scholars create a...

Students create a landscape or cityscape.  In this landscape lesson, students discover the definition of a landscape and describe various examples.  Students choose three images and write "postcards" from each of the three landscape...

The profound influence of religion and politics on 16th Century art and architecture becomes readily apparent in a 113-slide PowerPoint presentation. Although designed for AP history of art and humanities classes, the presentation would...

Students study printmaking, using mirror images, and positive and negative images. They examine how and why print images and text are used. They use a linoleum blocks to make prints.

Albrecht Durer created a highly textured stamp or print of a rhinoceros. To better understand which animals are near extinction, upper graders create similar prints of endangered animals they've researched. The six-day lesson includes...

Analyze the process of printmaking and explore how prints reflect an artist's view of society. After viewing and analyzing the prints of Elizabeth Catlett, class members create an inner tube and a linoleum block print. They then research...

High schoolers plan and execute a relief print that attempts to protest or persuade. They focus on effective definition of shape, use of symbols, and impact on their intended viewers.

Students explore the artistic works of Holocaust escapee Käthe Kollowitz. In this Holocaust art lesson, students examine the self-portraits that Kollowitz created and discuss the message in her woodcut images. Students design their own...