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Robert Rauschenberg: Reinventing Art: Lesson Overview

Using the American Masters online essay as a tool, this lesson will examine the cultural context of Robert Rauschenberg’s work.

Oct 28th, 2006 | 0 comments | 4,330 Views
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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.

Aug 27th, 2005 | 0 comments | 4,822 Views
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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.

Aug 27th, 2005 | 2 comments | 3,368 Views
(10 votes)
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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.

Aug 26th, 2005 | 2 comments | 4,868 Views
(10 votes)
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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.

Dec 29th, 2001 | 0 comments | 120 Views
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