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Rise of the Modern City: Tall Buildings in MoMA's Collection: Rise of the Modern City
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Students will become familiar with the industrial developments of the twentieth century and how they affected architecture and society; explore the development of urban environments; compare and contrast graphics and drawings; create works of art that document their neighborhoods from their own perspectives; learn the terms utopian and conceptual.

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Arts Education
Visual Arts
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The Museum of Modern Art
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MoMALearning
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Rise of the Modern City: Tall Buildings in MoMA's Collection: Vertical Thinking
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Students will explore the inventions and material innovations that made the construction of skyscrapers possible; become familiar with the roles of architects and engineers; make connections between architecture and history; learn the terms ziggurat and cladding.

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Arts Education
Visual Arts
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Lesson Plan
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The Museum of Modern Art
Author:
MoMALearning
Date Added:
02/26/2019
What is Modern Art?: Modern Portraits
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In this activity, students will learn how modern artists reinvented portraiture. By the turn of the 20th century, photographs had become the most accessible and popular mode of portraiture. As though freed from the burden of realism, portrait painters of the time began to explore new ways to represent people, breaking with the literal and representational portrait of the previous era.

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Arts Education
Visual Arts
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The Museum of Modern Art
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The Museum of Modern Art
Date Added:
02/26/2019
What is Modern Art?: Painting Modern Life
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In this activity, students learn about how artists living in the rapidly modernizing world of late 19th-century Europe wished not only to depict modern (for them, contemporary) everyday life, but also to reveal the emotional and psychological effects of living in a world in rapid flux.

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Arts Education
Visual Arts
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Activity/Lab
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The Museum of Modern Art
Author:
The Museum of Modern Art
Date Added:
02/26/2019
What is Modern Art?: Rise of the Modern City
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Students discover the ways in which artists, photographers, and architects changed the landscape of modern cities. The emergence of the modern city in the early 1900s was shaped by industry, innovations in transportation (railroads in particular), and mass migrations of people.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
The Museum of Modern Art
Author:
The Museum of Modern Art
Date Added:
02/26/2019