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… World War I and American Art: Part Two January 26, 2017 Joe Phelan yes Photo caption … it in the first line of his famous poem “Musée des Beaux Arts ,” “About suffering they [the Old Masters] were never …
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… World War I and American Art: Part One January 10, 2017 Joe Phelan yes Photo caption Joseph …
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… Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures yes Photo caption Cave art in Valonsadero (Soria), Spain. Wikimedia Commons In this … to visit the EDSITEment-reviewed resource Architecture & Arts . UNESCO provides a map that identifies locations …
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… Genre in the Visual Arts: Portraits, Pears, and Perfect Landscapes yes Photo …
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… a Different Color: An Introduction to Color in the Visual Arts yes Photo caption This photograph shows three works …
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… Lesson 3: “The Metamorphoses” and Later Works of Art: A Comparison of Mythic Imagery yes Photo caption Page … been the source of inspiration for generations of visual artists in both painting and sculpture, through the ages. …
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… Study Activity for Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans, Activity 3: How Did the … in Fels Cave, Lelepa Island. Wikimedia Commons (Note: Parts 1 through 4 of the LaunchPad are adapted from the …
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Our literary glossary provides a comprehensive list of terms and concepts along with lesson plans for teaching these topics in K-12 classrooms. Whether you are starting with a specific author…
Emphasis on the arts is found in many of Ken Burns’s films, and The Dust Bowl is no exception.
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… Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood , 1842 (detail). Part of an allegorical series on the different stages in a … familiar with the application of allegory to the visual arts. This lesson plan introduces students to allegory in …
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… to form a coherent whole—is key to the success of a work of art in conveying its message and visually "hanging … students will be introduced to composition in the visual arts, including design principals, such as balance, symmetry …
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… their analyses with detailed description of form, first by participating in a class-wide process of observing shapes, … through the EDSITEment-reviewed Center for the Liberal Arts website, for a history of the term as used by …
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… Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington yes Photo caption Martin Puryear (1941–), Ladder for Booker T. Washington , …
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… detail of the background waterside city. Wikimedia Commons Artists often structure their compositions in particular … by discussing the definition of symmetry in the visual arts with students: Symmetry refers to the correspondence in …
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… James Marshall, Voyager , 1992 Courtesy National Gallery of Art Kerry James Marshall, Voyager , 1992, acrylic and … Histories exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo in …
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… by learning the definition of composition in the visual arts and some of its most basic components. Preparation …
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… Presidential Library October is designated as National Arts and Humanities month in the United States. But, what is …
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… on themes and motifs found in the literature or the visual arts of several lands. With the Internet, students can …
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… canvas, 24 x 29 in. (61 x 73.7 cm.). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Museum of Modern Art "… the utterly naked look of someone / being stared at” …
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… Proclamation, 1864 or after Courtesy National Gallery of Art A. A. Lamb, Emancipation Proclamation , 1864 or after, … Histories exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo in …
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… Romare Bearden, The Dove , 1964. The Museum of Modern Art What does the artist see? How does that vision shape our perceptions of …
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… retelling of Odysseus’ wanderings in O Brother Where Art Thou ?) Despite his popularity in his own lifetime, this … or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus ). …
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… of Congress Whether you are teaching film literacy as part of a media arts course or using films to complement your social studies …
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… Throughout history, women and sometimes men have used the art of quilting for many diverse purposes: to keep warm, to … a link from the EDSITEment resource Center for the Liberal Arts . Though of most interest to the teacher, excerpts may …
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… central to the New Deal and which were also to guide his wartime policies. Yet despite an effort on the part of the government to communicate these ideas, by the …
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… Stories in Quilts yes Photo caption A quilting party in an Alvin, Wisconsin home. Library of Congress Quilts … pictorial quilt , accessible through the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, includes panels and describes her depictions …
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… Gatsby Audio A More Perfect Union Literature & Language Arts Fiction Reading Formatted Title American Icons: The … Guide A Literary Glossary for Literature and Language Arts Closer Reading Fiction and Nonfiction for AP English …
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… lesson requires you to access images of various works of art through EDSITEment reviewed Web sites. Images may be … on the EDSITEment-reviewed resource Detroit Institute of Arts Mesopotamian Eagle-headed deity , located on the … the EDSITEment-reviewed resource Metropolitan Museum of Art's Explore and Learn . From the top of the Homepage, …
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… for literary inspiration when he undertook his own three-part epic about the Christian afterlife, The Divine Comedy . … Inferno, was hugely influential on many 19th-century French artists such as Doré, the sculptor Auguste Rodin, and poet …
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… Mardi Gras, the circus, parades, plays, or costume parties-students discuss the use of masks in stories. … connection between composition and content in the visual arts. Students should have had an introduction to …