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Analyzing Paintings about Architecture
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Students will be able to identify architectural elements in paintings; compare different vantage points in paintings; discuss methods of representing a three-dimensional building in a two-dimensional painting; and write an essay exploring the use of spaces or perspective in a painting.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
The Art and Ancient Tradition of Storytelling (Advanced Level)
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Students will analyze scenes from the Trojan War that are visually depicted in an ancient object and an 18th-century painting, especially the details depicted in the foreground, middle ground, and background.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Before, During, and After 'The Musicians' Brawl'
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Students will be able to write a one-paragraph description of a painting based on their own observations; speculate about what happened before and after a scene depicted in a painting; write narratives using past tense and future tense; and write idioms about characters depicted in a painting.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Breaking the Chains, Rising Out of Circumstances
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Students will be able to discuss a photograph and write a descriptive narrative using sensory details; identify the events leading up to the Emancipation Proclamation and speculate what life was like for newly freed slaves in 19th-century America; write journal entries from the perspective of a freed slave in the 19th century; and create a print using scratch foam.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography (Advanced Level)
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Students will create and use pinhole cameras to understand how artists use and manipulate light to capture images in photographs. They shoot and develop photographs made with pinhole cameras. They compare and contrast a nineteenth-century image, photographs taken with a pinhole camera, and pictures created with a digital camera or camera phone.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography (Beginning Level)
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Students will create pinhole cameras to understand that light travels in a straight path. They describe the lines and shapes in a nineteenth-century photograph of a building and then use their pinhole cameras to trace the architecture of their school building.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography (Intermediate Level)
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Students will create pinhole cameras to learn how artists manipulate light to make photographs. They describe and analyze a nineteenth-century photograph and use their cameras to capture the architecture of their school or other buildings.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Ceramics: A Vessel into History-Lesson 1
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This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. Students view ceramic vessels from different time periods and cultures, and discuss their meanings, functions, and original contexts. They develop criteria for value and meaning of these objects, and create a timeline to situate the objects in history.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Ceramics: A Vessel into History-Lesson 2
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This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students are tested on what they learned about the history of ceramic forms in "Ceramics: A Vessel into History—Lesson 1." They start work on a personal clay vessel that has a specific use or meaning in their contemporary culture, which could be discerned through study by future archeologists and art historians.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Ceramics: A Vessel into History-Lesson 3
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This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students begin work on a ceramic vessel, which they designed in "Ceramics: A Vessel into History—Lesson 2." They discuss their artistic choices and identify elements derived from historical examples while considering how artists appropriate ideas from earlier artists.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Ceramics: A Vessel into History-Lesson 4
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This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students hold a critique session to evaluate the work of their peers using the criteria for value and meaning they developed in "Ceramics: A Vessel into History—Lesson 1."

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Depicting Women and Class in a Global Society
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Students will analyze how a portrait reflects the events and trends of its time and then create a portrait of a public female figure today. Students will be able to research the effects of European expansionism and colonialism on different groups of people during the Age of Exploration; discuss the notion of "exoticism" as it relates to a 19th-century painting, the burgeoning of stereotypes, and modern-day stereotyping in the media; and create a portrait of a female public figure from a different culture.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
A Design for a Fireplace: Extreme Home Makeover
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Students will be able to discuss and analyze the sculpture Sketch for a Fireplace Overmantel by Francesco Antonio Franzoni; consider current styles of home interiors; create studies in 2-D and 3-D for a decorative overmantel for the celebrity patron of their choice; research and read about the life and style of an arts patron and create a design for an overmantel that reflects the patron's life; and articulate in writing the processes they followed to create their overmantels.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Exploring Photographs, Lesson 1: Methods of Visual Analysis
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This curriculum is intended to provide students and teachers with the tools to analyze photography. Each lesson is easily adaptable to enhance learning on any theme, topic, or historical period that is expressed by, or documented in, photographs. The lessons in this curriculum are intended to be used sequentially. Students will learn the basic tools for analyzing images using description, reflection, and formal analysis.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Exploring Photographs, Lesson 2: A Closer Look--Analysis in the Museum
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This lesson contains three activities. Each activity uses a different object to explore one method of analysis and emphasize concentrated looking. When using non-photographic images, emphasize that the tools students are learning can be used to analyze any work of art from any time period, including photographs. This activity is an engaging way to help students create rich, descriptive sentences. Learning to write these sentences will be helpful when students create their own artist's statements in later lessons.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Exploring Photographs, Lesson 3: Writing the Artist's Statement
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Students will read an artist's statement by Dorothea Lange and write an artist's statement based on their own photographs. Students will examine the relationship between photography and the artist's statement; look closely at their own works of art; and use the methods of description, reflection, and formal analysis to write their own artist's statements.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Fighting Corrosion to Save an Ancient Greek Bronze (Advanced Level)
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Students will learn that the bronze used to make this sculpture is an alloy of copper and tin with small amounts of antimony, lead, iron, silver, nickel, and cobalt. They use the periodic table to research the chemical formulas of compounds used to make bronze. After learning about oxidation-reduction reactions that occurred in the statue, students speculate about the conservation techniques needed to conserve the bronze sculpture.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Fighting Corrosion to Save an Ancient Greek Bronze (Beginning Level)
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Students will study an object from antiquity that was found in the sea off the coast of Italy in order to understand how conservators remove and prevent corrosion on bronze statues.

Subject:
Arts Education
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Trust
Author:
J. Paul Getty Museum Education Staff
Date Added:
02/26/2019