Students will examine the ways in which an artwork is innovative or daring for its time; investigate how a new style was furthered by the exchange of ideas between Picasso and Braque; compare and contrast Cubist works depicting the human figure.

Students will consider the ways in which the contemporary world and events affect artists, and how artists respond to and record these effects; investigate how artists use symbols to convey meaning.

Students will become familiar with the terms landscape, iconography, abstract, and will revisit the terms foreground, middle ground, and background; explore how the artist's perception impacts the way he or she interprets and represents a subject.

Students will be introduced to some of the conventions of portraiture; consider how symbols can be used in a portrait to add meaning; be introduced to the technique of photomontage.

Students will be introduced to the strategy of collage; be introduced to the concept of chance and how it has played a role in the production of visual art; explore how artists incorporated materials from everyday life into their works of art, including images from the mass media.

Students will consider their own definitions of art; consider how Dada and Surrealist artists challenged conventional ideas of art; be introduced to Readymades and photograms.

Students will be introduced to artists who developed new visual forms through experimentation; consider artists' choices of material; introduced to the term "Constructivism."

Students will be introduced to the principles of the Bauhaus; consider the elements of chair design; introduced to the printmaking technique of lithography; consider how technological progress affects art and design.

Students will make connections between two design objects intended for different purposes; be introduced to the ways in which artists can affect social and political behavior through design.

Students will compare two different designs for theatrical costumes by artists Oskar Schlemmer and Lissitzky; consider how these artists applied their artistic ideals to theater design.

Students will be introduced to two artists, Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, who pioneered different systems of abstract painting; consider how the two artists' use of shape, line, composition, and color reflect both similarities and differences in their artistic ideologies.

Students will analyze modern artists' interest in travel; discuss modern artists' radical and unusual use of artistic materials; look at the ways in which modern artists were inspired by unusual artistic sources.

Students will compare portraits, two of which are self-portraits, focusing on artists' choices, such as medium, or the materials an artist uses to create a work of art, and composition, meaning the arrangement of different elements upon the surface of a painting, drawing, etc. Students will explore the characteristics that these portraits convey about the sitter.

Students will learn to broaden their descriptive and analytical vocabulary through comparisons and close analysis of works of art; discuss changes taking place in the modern world and the psychological effects on the artists discussed in this guide.

Students will compare and contrast works of art; learn observational techniques; become familiar with buildings in their community; learn the terms foreground, middle ground, and background, as well as terms for describing objects such as line, color, shape, form, and pattern.

Students will become familiar with the term "landscape" and will revisit the terms "foreground," "middle ground," and "background." Students will consider how an artist's painting technique impacts a viewer's interpretation of a painting.

The six lessons that compose this guide may be used sequentially or as independent units. An introduction to the key principles of each lesson is followed by a close examination of each work, including formal analysis, historical context, and biographical information about the designer or artist. Discussion questions lead students through formal analysis of the artwork and seek to create connections between information and visual evidence. The activity or project that concludes each lesson encourages students to synthesize what they have learned about each work and carries the lesson into the broader curriculum or relates it to skills students are practicing in the classroom.

Students will explore artists' choices of nontraditional art materials; explore how artists use different materials to engage space and will consider the role of the viewer in that process.

Students will be introduced to artworks that emphasize ideas over visual forms and consider how these works fit into or challenge their definitions of art; explore different methods of using language in art; consider the role of artists in making language-based Conceptual art.

Students will be introduced to performance art and will consider its relationship to more traditional forms of visual art, such as painting and sculpture; consider the different ways in which performance art is documented; explore artists' construction of identities in performance and their adoption of signature materials and props.