Using the American Masters online essay as a tool, this lesson will examine the cultural context of Robert Rauschenberg’s work.
Visual Arts
Robert Rauschenberg: Reinventing Art: Lesson Overview
Diego Rivera: Art as the Universal Language: Lesson Overview
Students will discuss the nature of art, what purposes it serves, and how Rivera's art reflected what was happening in the world during his lifetime.
Through the Lens of Robert Capa: Lesson Overview
In this lesson, students will use Guided Reading techniques to learn about Capa's style and to discover the techniques that made him a great photographer.
Andy Warhol: Lesson Overview
Through these activities students will explore various definitions about what constitutes art and how other periods in art history may have framed these definitions, develop their own ideas of what constitutes art, and use representative works of art to support their own definitions of art.
W. Eugene Smith: Photo Journalism and Compassion: Lesson Overview
In this lesson students will learn about Smith's compassion for the human race through his work during WW2, examine W. Eugene Smith's photo-essays, build a pinhole camera, and create their own photo-essay.






