This art activity introduces students in grades four-six to the popular 18th-century capriccio painting of Canaletto, one of the greatest painters of views of Venice, Italy. (RM)

Students in grades 10-12 are introduced to a romantic-realist approach to landscape painting using masterpiece by Robert S. Duncanson. The activity helps students consider the decisions artists make in choosing how they will interpret nature. (RM)

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

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)

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)

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…

Author described a show of dissident art held in Moscow on September 29, 1974, and contrasted the government's efforts to control artistic freedom with the determination of Russian artists to resist such imposition. (RK)

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)