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Herberholz, Barbara – Arts & Activities, 2012
When he painted a portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II (1552-1612), Giuseppe Arcimboldo used his imagination, and portrayed him as "Vertumnus," the Roman god of vegetation and the seasons. It's fun to find the different fruits, vegetables and flowers he used: pea-pod eyelids, a gourd for the forehead. Court painters of the time usually…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Artists, Art History
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Yohlin, Elizabeth – Children's Literature in Education, 2012
Children's picture books that recreate, parody, or fictionalize famous artworks and introduce the art museum experience, a genre to which I will refer as "children's art books," have become increasingly popular over the past decade. This essay explores the pedagogical implications of this trend through the family program "Picture Books and Picture…
Descriptors: Art History, Picture Books, Knowledge Level, Family Programs
Fortune, Tracy – Arts & Activities, 2011
Look for ways to take students on virtual journeys to faraway places, and then connect the experience to something they can relate to on a more personal level. In this article, the author describes a block-printing unit inspired by Japanese printmaker, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), and his series of art prints, "Thirty-six Views of Mount…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Studio Art, Middle School Students, Visual Arts
Fritsche, Susan – Arts & Activities, 2011
Both Greeks and Romans placed the building of temples and sanctuaries high on their list of architectural priorities, as these structures were a source of public pride. The temples were built as shrines for the all-important gods and goddesses of the ancient world. The Parthenon is a great example of this. The frieze on the Parthenon shows scenes…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Art History, Grade 4
Skophammer, Karen – Arts & Activities, 2011
Creativity--where does it come from? When nurturing creativity, it is necessary to have an open mind. By nurturing a creative mind, one finds that artists' ideas flow freely, so students need to look deeper into the artworks, the artists' lives, and what was behind the inspiration for the work. Imagining themselves as one of the artists they have…
Descriptors: Creativity, Artists, Art History, Studio Art
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Bobick, Bryna; DiCindio, Carissa – Art Education, 2012
Advocacy is not new to art education. Over the years, Goldfarb (1979), Hodsoll (1985), and Erickson and Young (1996) have written about the importance of arts advocacy, but the concept of advocacy has evolved with the times. For example, in the 1970s, arts advocacy was described as a "movement" and brought together art educators,…
Descriptors: Art History, Visual Arts, Elementary Secondary Education, Art Activities
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Blackwood, Christine Horvatis – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2011
Chess is one of the world's oldest games, invented in India before 600 AD. The original pieces were inspired by the infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots of the ancient Indian army. The design of chess pieces changed when the game spread to the West, reflecting the society of medieval Europe. The king remained, pawns were the foot soldiers,…
Descriptors: Games, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Studio Art
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Beaudoin, Joan E. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2011
This paper presents the findings of a research study which investigated the digital preservation practices among two faculty user groups, archeologists and art historians. This faculty's knowledge of digital preservation practices and their perceptions and emotions concerning the digital images they had created and, or collected to support their…
Descriptors: Preservation, Historians, Faculty, Archives
Sutley, Jane – Arts & Activities, 2011
This article describes how the author exposes her students to the world of Jackson Pollock, the artist who brings to mind dripping, meandering, splashing puddles of paint. Pollock's action paintings of the late 1940s-'50s call out for unfettered movement, fluidity, and freedom of application. Is it even possible to capture the action, rhythm and…
Descriptors: Painting (Visual Arts), Artists, Studio Art, Art Activities
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Acuff, Joni Boyd; Hirak, Brent; Nangah, Mary – Art Education, 2012
The consequence of narratives becoming stagnant or controlled is that they become a Master Narrative. The Master Narrative is an "ideological script that is being imposed by the people in authority on everybody else: The Master Fiction... history" (Moyers, 1990, para. 4). Master Narratives use myths and ideologies to sustain a sanitized version of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Art Education, Art History, Ideology
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Kostal, Heather – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2011
Five- and six-year-olds know a lot about their own homes. Besides school, home is probably where they spend most of their time. But have they ever really thought about their space? Using students' knowledge of their current space will help them design new spaces and think about all the areas that surround them. In this project, students design…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Joo, Young Ju; Joung, Sunyoung; Lim, Eugene; Kim, Hae Jin – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This study investigated whether college students' self-efficacy, level of learning strategy use, academic burnout, and school support predict course satisfaction and learning persistence. To this end, self-efficacy, level of learning strategy use, academic burnout, and school support were used as prediction variables, and course satisfaction and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies
Skophammer, Karen – Arts & Activities, 2010
This article describes an activity in which students created and designed lampshades using artists' styles. This was a unique experience because while all of the students have drawn or painted on flat canvas, none of them had done dimensional painting in this manner before. Essentially, they were planning and creating murals in 3-D. The author…
Descriptors: Art History, Artists, Art Activities, Studio Art
Carlson, Pam – Arts & Activities, 2010
"Art history? Ugh!" is often the response of high-school visual arts students when faced with an art-history assignment. With the exception of very few students who might have an affection for the historical aspects of art, getting art history into the hearts and minds of high-school students can be a challenge. In this article, the author shares…
Descriptors: Art History, Visual Arts, High School Students, Freehand Drawing
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Kane, Patrick – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2010
This study of Egyptian aesthetics interprets the historical and political context of artistic discourse in the early twentieth century. In a period marked by intense struggle between landlords and rural laborers during the Depression and World War II, I compare the rise of the Egyptian Surrealists from the late 1930s, and the Contemporary Art…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art History, Art Expression, Artists
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