High School students can abstract or reduce an original watercolor painting into a series of strips to produce a visual explosion of shapes, lines, and colors still recognizable as original. (AM)

An art teacher at South Shore High School in Brooklyn, New York, uses blot paintings as a wedge into the teenager's fantasy world thereby defining nebulous shapes into concrete, but often delightfully outlandish, subject matter. (Author/RK)

Students designed and painted a mural entitled, THE FAMILY OF MAN. They focused on people from all corners of the world and learned about the dignity of man while creating a work that now proudly hangs in their school cafeteria. (Author/RK)

Article considered the found materials artists utilize in expressing their creativity and the opportunities for students to experiment with the refuse of our technical age. (Author/RK)

Students turned their schools' blank walls into colorful murals thereby giving a satisfying sense of accomplishment. (Author/RK)

One of the most offbeat exhibitions presented in the last several years was the widely celebrated Warhol-Wyeth duo show, "Portraits of Each Other", held at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Discusses their paintings and their diametrically different personalities. (Author/RK)

Evaluates the works of two great artists, Paul Cezanne and Jasper Johns, based on exhibits during the 1976-77 period at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. (R K)

During this past year a vast number of art shows have been exhibited across the United States. Their most striking features were their range and diversity. Here are some comments on Ben Shahn's paintings and photography focusing on social realism, some works by the Polish Constructivists, interested in redefining form in relation to space, the…

By displaying slides or prints of paintings, by reading and discussing related poems, and by having students write their own poems on what they see, teachers can expose art students to a new view of poetry and visual arts. A list of poems and paintings to compare is included. (RM)

Vincent Van Gogh's painting "The Starry Night" is discussed, and ways that an art teacher can use this painting as a resource for learning are suggested. Specific activities to use with elementary and secondary students are included. (RM)

Article describes the increase in examples of photo-realism and its place in modern art. (GB)

Sparked by a filmstrip on Pop Art and its influence on contemporary sculpture, an eleventh year Art class at Clara Barton Vocational High School decided to create "larger than life" three-dimensional objects inspired by natural patterns and forms of fruits and vegetables. (Author)

Students inspired by the possibilities of leaving a senior art class gift to the school in the form of large paintings. (Author/CB)

Article briefly outlines how to teach elementary students the technique of crayon resist, using crayons, construction paper and white tempura paint to make snow scenes. (PD)

In this experiment in description, students in a high school honors English class were asked to select a surrealistic painting and capture it in writing. Their compositions were given to art students who tried to reproduce the paintings from the written descriptions. (SJL)