This is the last of a series of articles on teaching art. (MM)

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)

The painting by Paul Cezanne, The Bridge of Trois-Sautets, was painted near the time of his death. In this rich watercolor, the artist dispensed with notions of traditional painting goals. Rather than solely focus on a realistic rendering of this scene, Cezanne turned instead to the task of recording his sensorial experience and exploring the…

This Instructional Resources continues our 2004 series on forms of "public art" that included Susan Goetz Zwirn's contribution on images of work in the 1930s (March 2004), Carol Argiro's exploration of public sculpture (July 2004), and Mary Jane Zander's work on WPA post office murals (September 2004). This Instructional Resources explores an art…

This brief article describes the life and the art of Horace Pippin. It focuses on one work called "Christmas Morning, Breakfast" that is part of a series of works based on Pippin's childhood memories. The painting depicts a very modest room, including exposed wallboards where chunks of plaster have fallen off. The room is very tidy, but…

The MC (microcomputer) paint brush and other parts of the MC painting medium can be used easily by the student, teacher, or artist, young or old, to produce color pictures on a TV screen and store them for later viewing or modification. The 15 colors available--two intensities of each of six colors, black, and two whites--can be painted with any…

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…

The imperative need to reintroduce solid technical and aesthetic disciplines into the education of the artist was considered. (Author/RK)

Notes that educators often view art as an intellectually shallow, mechanical process. Describes Sir Joshua Reynolds's concept of invention as the intellectual combination of placing the painter's mental picture of actions, expressions, and characters on canvas. Calls for educators to stress intellectual qualities of art in order to develop…

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)