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Overview
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Lesson 1: The Sensory Palette
Lesson 2: The Literary Palette
Lesson 3: The Color Palette
Lesson 4: The Studio Palette
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Resource List Illustrative Materials
& Showcase Gallery
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Teacher Diane Lufrano's Adaptation of this Unit
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Lessons by Lori (middle school level)
After studying the variety of artists and styles in class, students are encouraged to visit local museums with their families to view the actual paintings. Our 8th grade accelerated art class was given the opportunity to visit the newly renovated MOMA, on a class trip with Mrs. Langsner, to coincide with this lesson. The students were very excited to see Dali’s “Persistence of Memory” and were surprised that is was such a very small painting. Classroom slides and reproductions do not always appear as in true likeness.
An extra-credit assignment was for students to write a creative piece about how they would feel as a character in their 3D installations. Here are two sample student responses (click to enlarge):
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://metmuseum.org
Students may visit this major museum in NYC on Fifth Avenue and 82nd St. and view American and European paintings, works on paper, sculpture, design, and architecture representing the major artistic movements since 1900 in their permanent collections.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art: http://philamuseum.org
This museum is privileged to be the only American venue to host the major centennial retrospective exhibition, Feb. 16 – May 30, 2005, devoted to Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). This exhibition, timed to coincide with the celebration of the 2004 centenary of the artist’s birth, considers all aspects of the artist’s long and controversial career. On view is a vast array of Dalí’s highly influential Surrealist paintings, as well as his early Cubist-inspired works and later experiments with optical illusions and perspective. Dalí remains one of the best-known artists of the modern era, due to his flamboyant personality and instantly recognizable painting style. His Surrealist paintings are rendered in a meticulous technique that imparts a dream-like clarity to his barren landscapes.
The Museum of Modern Art: http://moma.org
MOMA presents the most extensive display of its collection ever, showcasing work from each of the Museum's six curatorial departments-Architecture and Design, Drawings, Painting and Sculpture, Photography, Prints and Illustrated Books, and Film and Media. Many of the Museum's best-loved works, including Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night and Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, are on view.
Community
Children's Museum
77 East Blackwell Street
Dover, NJ
(973) 366-9060
van Gogh's Bedroom http://communitychildrensmuseum.org/htm/exhibits.htm
How often are children encouraged to touch a famous work of art? At this exhibit, they don't just touch the painting, they actually step inside it!
As visitors approach this stunning exhibit they will see a larger-than-life-sized replica of the painting Van Gogh's Bedroom, 1888, Next to this screen will be a wall with text and pictures introducing visitors to the artist, Vincent Van Gogh – his life, times and work.
After viewing these introductory materials, visitors part the screen and step through into a room that exactly replicates Van Gogh's bedroom. They will literally walk into the painting.
The bed in the room, for example, is of the same color and design found in the painting, but visitors can actually sit on it. They can feel the texture of the walls and touch the portraits hanging above the bed. They can open the drawer in the artist's dressing table. They will learn about the artwork while experiencing the difference between two-dimensional art and three-dimensional space.
The visitor then enters the next stage of the exhibit. This room is fashioned after an art school of the 1800's where Van Gogh studied. By recreating his world, we give the visitor the context within which to understand his work. Upon entering the room the young visitors become art students and learn the skills taught by art schools of this period
The Art Studio brings art to life for children. We venture to make art a part of everyday life and inspire artistic expression in children, using all their senses. We use varied tools, methods, media and interactive exhibits to demonstrate various art concepts.
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