Meintest du essen?
A lesson for preschool to kindergarten students about artist Joan Miró’s painting The Farm. Students learn how to look at this painting, what you can read to learn more, how to create a collage, and a list of vocabulary terms related to this activity.
visiting your favorite place: the beach, the library, a relative’s house, or somewhere else
A lesson for preschool to kindergarten students about artist Jacob Lawrence’s 1964 painting Street to Mbari. Students learn how to look at this painting, what you can read to learn more, how to paint a gathering place, and a list of vocabulary terms related to this activity.
Does that shape repeat somewhere else in the painting?
A lesson for preschool to kindergarten students about artist Wassily Kandinsky’s 1913 painting Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle). Students learn how to look at this painting, what you can read to learn more, how to paint music yourself, and a list of vocabulary terms related to this activity.
Or do you see something else?
A lesson for preschool to kindergarten students about artist Romare Bearden’s collage Tomorrow I May Be Far Away. Students learn how to look at this collage, what you can read to learn more, how to create a collage, and a list of vocabulary terms related to this activity.
Where else does that color appear?
A symbol is a drawing, shape, or object that represents something else, such as an
For classical pianist and activist Lara Downes, Romare Bearden’s collage is a puzzle full of questions and unfinished business. In response, she brings together different musical sources, overlaying sounds to create both harmony and tension.
But if we put the train together in it, it may be about being somewhere else.
Orphée depicts many tragedies, but songwriter Dom Flemons finds the joy in it: it resolves in the beautiful scene of two lovers embracing. Flemons pairs it with the tranquil Blue Butterfly. The instrumental song helps the emotional weight sink in.
we might have done two or three takes on it, and then we moved on to something else
Warhol himself joked in 1963 that he thought someone else should be able to do all
Pieter Molijn, born in London of Flemish parents, was baptized on April 6, 1595. It is not known when he left England or where and with whom he studied painting.
Little else is known of his professional career, except that he seems to have remained
Jan van Huysum was born in Amsterdam on April 15, 1682. His father, Justus van Huysum the Elder (1659–1716), was also an artist, as were Jan’s three brothers, Justus the Younger (1685–1707), Jacob (1688–1740), and Michiel (1703–1777).
Van Huysum’s reluctance to teach anyone else his techniques did not prevent the perpetuation
