Students will learn new vocabulary and practice using it by looking at and describing various works of art, including paintings, drawings, art objects, and photographs.

Students will practice using vocabulary related to people and leisure. Students will be challenged to infer what leisure activities individuals are doing based on such clues as their pose.

Students will practice using vocabulary related to people and workStudents are challenged to infer what job individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.

Students will practice using vocabulary associated with a room and objects in the room.

Students will practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and how people react to the sea.

Students will practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and time of day.

Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about still life in a painting. Activities emphasize prepositions of location—through discussions about objects depicted in the featured work of art.

Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about decorative arts.

Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about different media (painting and photography).

Students will view Pistoletto's "Mirror Architecture" and consider why an artist might choose a fractured mirror to create a work of art; how the surroundings and the viewer interact with the sculpture; and how our perceptions of the piece might change in different locations. Students will write a story with the mirror as the central subject. Students will also write a short story which explores the symbolism of mirrors.

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.

Students will be introduced to the notion of ephemeral and site-specific art and will consider the role of the photo-documentation of these works; explore works that challenge traditional notions of where art should be displayed; be introduced to artists' strategies of institutional critique.

Students will consider artists' choices related to materials, line, color, and scale; consider artists' motivations for using repeated forms; compare and contrast industrially fabricated works of art with those made by hand.

Remix of the MoMA Learning lesson on Investigating Identity, what is identity, how did the artist Glenn Ligon use identity and race in his work.

The five lessons that comprise 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 the works, including historical context and information on the artist. Discussion questions based on the images lead students through formal analysis of the artworks and seek to create connections between information and visual evidence. The activities that conclude each lesson encourage students to synthesize what they have learned about the works, and carry the lessons into the broader curriculum or relate it to skills students are practicing in the classroom.

Students study how artists of the Neoclassical period were influenced by major historical events during the Enlightenment. They will identify and analyze the Neoclassical style.

In these lessons, students will explore the intersection of math and art in the works of two artists and one architect for whom mathematical concepts (lines, angles, two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional polyhedra, fractions, ratios, and permutations) and geometric forms were fundamental.

Students will consider the challenges of representing identity visually; consider text and elements of popular culture in an image; continue to consider the role of drawing as a political medium.