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    • A Wall in the Middle Ground

      For Grades 3–12

      English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring Paul Gauguin's The Yellow Christ, 1889
      To talk about narrative paintings (those that tell a story), we often divide images into three sections—the foreground, the middle ground, and the background. The foreground refers to the space closest to the viewer, the background is the area farthest away, and the middle ground is everything in between. This lesson plan explores these concepts and includes discussion exercises and creative writing activities.

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    • Alexander Calder’s Visual Poetry: Mobiles and Stabiles

      For Grades K–12

      Math, Science, and Technology; English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring Alexander Calder's The Cone, 1960
      Students will observe Alexander Calder’s sculpture The Cone, learn the meaning of the terms stabile and mobile, and create a personal interpretation of The Cone through a creative poem.

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    • Art for Remembering

      For Grades K–12

      English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring Robert Rauschenberg's Ace, 1962
      Robert Rauschenberg, one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and well-known artists, lived in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s. This lesson plan explores the invention of what he called “combines”—semi-abstract compositions combining Abstract Expressionist–style painting with real world objects he collected during walks through the city.

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    • Basketball Drawing!

      For Grades K–12

      English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring David Hammons's Basketball Drawing, 2001
      Students will become familiar with a work of art by David Hammons, make a drawing by harnessing the actions of other people, and discuss ideas about authorship and open-ended narratives.

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    • Blue Sky, Blue Wall

      For Grades 3–5

      Math, Science, and Technology; English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring Jim Dine’s Child’s Blue Wall, 1962
      Jim Dine’s Child’s Blue Wall combines sculpture and painting. It is both a realistic depiction of a child’s bedroom and an abstract painting of a night sky. This lesson plan explores how Jim Dine accomplished these two ideas in the same work of art, and gives students a chance to try making similar works themselves.

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    • Can It!?

      For Grades 3–5

      Math, Science, and Technology; English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring Andy Warhol’s 100 Cans, 1962
      Pop artists used consumer products, advertising, and popular culture icons as the major source for subject matter in their art. Between 1962 and 1967, Andy Warhol painted soup cans, both individually and in groups. The Gallery’s work 100 Cans is one of the last images he painted by hand before turning to silkscreen printing methods. This lesson contains activities that teach elementary math concepts, as well as the visual arts concept of multiple images.

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    • Color that MOVES!

      For Grades 6–12

      English Language Arts; Social Studies; Visual Arts

      Featuring Bridget Riley's Sequel, 1975
      Students will become familiar with a work of art by Bridget Riley, learn about the optics of complementary colors, and use complementary colors to create an artwork that evokes optical effects.

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    • Compare and Contrast: It’s All in the Details

      For Grades 4–12

      Math, Science, and Technology; English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring Three Sculptures of Horses
      Students will learn about the artists Edgar Degas, Louise Nevelson, and Marino Marini, compare and contrast three sculptures of horses, and compare and contrast three sculptures of horses to a realistic horse.

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    • Create Your Own Sculpture

      For Grades 4–12

      Math, Science, and Technology; English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring Three Sculptures of Horses
      Students will create a Edgar Degas, Louise Nevelson, or Marino Marini–inspired animal sculpture.

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    • Culture Collage

      For Grades 4–12

      Math, Science, and Technology; English Language Arts; Visual Arts

      Featuring Jirí Kolár's Cycladic Heads, 1976
      Students will learn about Greek culture and its influence, and create a Jirí Kolár–inspired collage.

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