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Hubbard, Guy – Arts & Activities, 2000
Provides information on Willie Bester, who lived under Apartheid in South Africa and used his art to bring public attention to the plight of persecuted people. Includes a reproduction of Bester's collage, "Crossroads." Discusses the history and social message of "Crossroads." (CMK)
Descriptors: Apartheid, Art Education, Art Expression, Art History
Johnson, Mark M. – Arts & Activities, 2000
Provides information on marine painting, the historical treatment of its subject matter, and its stylistic development. Discusses and includes reproductions of paintings, from the marine collection of the Butler Institute of American Art, by Robert Swain Gifford, Stuart Davis, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Augustus V. Tack, and James E. Buttersworth.…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Art Expression, Art History
Szekely, George – Arts & Activities, 2000
Contends that children's playfulness with flashlights is an artform suitable to the art classroom. For example, flashlights can become drawing tools or a means of sculpting with forms and light. Discusses works by "flashlight artists" and considers flashlight art history in the classroom. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art History, Art Products
Hubbard, Guy – Arts & Activities, 2000
Focuses on David Bates and his artwork entitled "Blackwater I." Includes background information, activities based on the artwork, and a reproduction of the painting. Describes the painting, focusing on how it is like and unlike folk art. (CMK)
Descriptors: Animals, Art Education, Art Expression, Art History
Hubbard, Guy – Arts & Activities, 2001
Discusses spirals in nature, man-made objects, and art. Focuses on art that incorporates the spiral, including works by M. C. Escher and Frank Lloyd Wright, an African headdress, and a burial urn. Describes activities to help students make spirals of their own, such as constructing a coil clay pot. (CMK)
Descriptors: Architecture, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression
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Day, Michael D. – Studies in Art Education, 1985
The discipline-based view of art education requires that students progress in all of the four domains of art learning: art history, art criticism, aesthetic appreciation, and creative production. Evaluation methods in each of these domains are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Expression
Kader, Themina – 2001
College students in art history courses study African art more frequently than in the past. Textbooks and videos, however, do not reflect the realities of creative expression today in Africa. Rather, African art dwells on the traditional arts of the west and southern regions of Africa. This paper focuses on eastern and southern sub-Saharan Africa…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Art Education, Art Expression, Art History
Johnson, Mark M. – Arts & Activities, 2003
Focuses on the exhibit, "The Artful Teapot: Twentieth Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection," that features artwork of teapots from the collection of Gloria and Sonny Kamm. Includes examples of the artwork and an itinerary for the exhibit. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art History, Art Products
Hubbard, Guy – Arts & Activities, 2002
Discusses various art movements that include examples of artworks with movement, such as Romantic, Classic, Rococo, and Art Nouveau. Addresses ways in which students can learn to incorporate movement into their own works of art. Includes examples of artists who included movement into their artworks. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art History, Artists
Bourque, Simone – Arts & Activities, 2002
Presents a fifth-grade art history lesson that begins with discussion about a group of Canadian artists called the Group of Seven. Explains that the students create their own landscapes following an activity on warm and cool colors. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art History, Artists
Hubbard, Guy – Arts & Activities, 2002
Provides background information on hunting in history and discusses the use of hunting as a subject matter for works of art. Includes examples of art work that have hunting as the subject matter and information on each work of art. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Art Expression, Art History
Johnson, Mark M. – Arts & Activities, 2002
Provides background information on the life and career of Frederick Carl Frieseke, an artist who painted in the style of impressionism. Explains that this artist is the focus of a retrospective exhibition entitled, "Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist" at the Telfair Museum of Art (Savannah, Georgia). (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art History, Artists
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Delacruz, Elizabeth Manley – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2000
Provides historical information on the growth of the folk- and outsider-art establishment within the twentieth century United States. Addresses the problems with defining this art form, contradictions between notions of schooling, and the negative impacts of success. Highlights art-world events and discourses that reflect the changing U.S.…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Aesthetics, Art, Art Expression
Hubbard, Guy – Arts & Activities, 2001
Provides background information on the Impressionism movement. Discusses the life of U.S. artist, Frederick Childe Hassam, and describes the content and techniques used for his painting, "Lower Manhattan." Includes suggestions for class activities and a reproduction of his artwork. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Art History
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Petit, David A. – Art Education, 1990
Describes how three groups of twentieth-century U.S. artists--Landscape and architectural artists, pop artists, and the photo-realists--used the object as the primary image in their artwork. Maintains that this approach to studying still life may be more relevant for teachers and students today. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Art History, Art Teachers
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