From Creative Living: Residential Architecture in MoMA's Collection: The Curved House--Endless House …
From Creative Living: Residential Architecture in MoMA's Collection: The Curved House--Endless House Project (unbuilt). 1950-60
Students will:
* Learn about The Endless House project and Frederick Kiesler (the architect). * Compare the Endless House with other homes from this guide and in your neighborhood. * Build the Endless House * Research Kiesler's vision for the Endless Theater.
Students will: * Learn about Farnsworth (the house) and Ludwig Mies van …
Students will:
* Learn about Farnsworth (the house) and Ludwig Mies van deer Rohe (the architect). * Conduct research on the Bauhaus movement. * Write a report about the artists and intellectuals, like Mies van deer Rohe, who sought asylum in other countries to escape censorship and the suppression of individual and political rights under Hitler in the 1930's.
From Creative Living: Residential Architecture in MoMA's Collection, A Guide for Educators …
From Creative Living: Residential Architecture in MoMA's Collection, A Guide for Educators
House Three: The House on Stilts--Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, France, 1929-31
Students will:
* Discuss the particulars of the Villa Savoye. * Discuss the Le Corbusier's "Chaise Longe" chair. * Learn about the occupants, the Jeannerets, of the Villa Savoye. * Analyze and evaluate "home" and "home atmosphere". * Compare and contrast, through a series of writing exercises, the qualities of Villa Savoye with their own. * Learn about Le Corbusier's "Five Points of Architecture" and the "International Style".
From Creative Living: Residential Architecture in MoMA's Collection, A Guide for Educators …
From Creative Living: Residential Architecture in MoMA's Collection, A Guide for Educators
House Two: The Red and Blue House--Schroder House, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1924
Students will:
* Discuss the particulars of the Schroder House. * Discuss the "Red Blue Chair". * Learn about the occupants, the Schroders, of the Red and Blue House. * Analyze and evaluate "home" and "home atmosphere". * Compare and contrast, through a series of writing exercises, the qualities of Schroder home with their own. * Learn about the "De Stijl" movement.
Students will examine Remington's "The Cheyenne" and identify the challenges he faced …
Students will examine Remington's "The Cheyenne" and identify the challenges he faced in creating a horse that appears to be airborne. They will then work with a partner and go through a similar problem-solving process to create their own airborne sculpture.
This interactive resource encourages students to consider the fact that artists have …
This interactive resource encourages students to consider the fact that artists have a special role to play in the global struggle for peace, development and human rights.
Students will be introduced to the concept of the manifesto and will …
Students will be introduced to the concept of the manifesto and will investigate its relationship to an artistic movement; explore how art can be used as a response to political and social issues.
Students will examine the ways in which an artwork is innovative or …
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 …
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.
In this lesson, students will do light research on medieval art and …
In this lesson, students will do light research on medieval art and history in order to deliver a brief talk about the historical context of one work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.
The Cyrus Cylinder, a proclamation by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, …
The Cyrus Cylinder, a proclamation by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, gives rare historical insight into ancient Persian culture. These guides can be used to explore the Cyrus Cylinder and related objects in the Getty Villa's collection to learn about Persian culture and Persian interactions with the Greeks. Each guide contains information for teachers as well activities for students that can be carried out in the classroom. Resources include:
Students will become familiar with the terms landscape, iconography, abstract, and will …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 look at Ortega's installation art "False Movement (Stability and Economic …
Students will look at Ortega's installation art "False Movement (Stability and Economic Growth), read about the work, and describe the work in detail. Students will explore the concepts of capitalism, politics, and social issues and how they may be addressed through art by investigating aspects of form and structure such as fragility, levity, gravity, and weight; balance and tension. Students will participate in The Marshmallow Challenge (link provided). Students will also create a digital collage on a topic that concerns them.
Students consider the social and political motivations of David Alfaro Siqueiros to …
Students consider the social and political motivations of David Alfaro Siqueiros to help them analyze his self-portrait. With his writing as their guidance, students write and deliver a persuasive speech and create a propaganda poster about a current issue of interest. Through links included in the resource, students explore an online MoMA feature about propaganda art, view a slideshow and discover Robert Runyon's photographs about the Mexican Revolution, and visit the exhibition feature entitled The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place.
Students will demonstrate the ability to draw vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, …
Students will demonstrate the ability to draw vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, recognize the difference between inside and outside, and will create a picture of themselves.
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