Using the chemistry of basic black and white photography, students can combine painting techniques with photo techniques to achieve an aesthetically pleasing painting. (Author)

Article explained techniques for brayer painting with some accompanying examples of brayer art. (RK)

Describes a program that involved high school students in the painting of murals of their own creation on the plaster walls of their school. (RB)

Six lesson plans can help junior high school students learn about concrete and abstract images. Students draw human figures, identify concrete and abstract images in words and paintings, draw concrete images from abstractions, and make paintings of positive, abstract concepts using concrete imagery. (AM)

High school students learned to use sculpture, collage and painting with a linoleum base in a project in which they worked in self-elected groups of three or four in creating mural-like compositions. (Author/RK)

Article provided some suggestions and results in a method combining watercolor paints and salt. (RK)

Article discussed the use of plaster impregnated cloth as a material for creating sculpture. (Author/RK)

Author described the life and times of the San Francisco Art Institute and reviewed the forces that made San Francisco a city of more than ordinary awareness of the arts in its civic and civil existence. (Editor/RK)

Thomas Cole's painting, "The Architect's Dream," is used to illustrate a middle school lesson on how artists interpret cityscapes. Includes suggestions for classroom activities. (AEM)

Recently an outstanding cross-section of works from Van Gogh's Arlesian period was on exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His works are discussed; some samples are included. (RM)

By participating in this art activity, students in grades seven-nine learn about one of the first American modernists, Stuart Davis, and come to understand how simplification and abstraction developed in American art. (RM)

Marcel Duchamp will probably never be forgotten by art historians of the future, said the author, and he reflected on the achievements of the artist as well as Duchamp's increasing fame. (Author/RK)

For more than two thousand years, the painted image has been critical to the culture of the West. At the beginning of the 21st century, however, painting sits quietly in a small corner and is, for the most part, ignored. Museums increasingly devote their contemporary exhibition space to "installation art," as opposed to discrete objects…

Each fourth-grader was given opportunity to work on classroom mural by dividing class into groups, each of which then designed and executed its own small mural. (PD)