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  • Color that MOVES!

    For Grades 6–12

    English Language Arts; Social Studies; Visual Arts

    Inspired by The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
    On View November 4, 2011–March 4, 2012
    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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  • Meditative Drawings

    For Grades 8–12

    Visual Arts; Health, Physical Education, Family and Consumer Sciences

    Inspired by The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
    On View November 4, 2011–March 4, 2012
    Students will explore the technique of meditation while creating art, become familiar with the artist Agnes Martin, and create a drawing using Agnes Martin’s The Tree as an example.

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  • Three Ways to Make a Scene

    For Grades 4–12

    English Language Arts; Visual Arts

    Inspired by The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
    On View November 4, 2011–March 4, 2012
    Students will become familiar with the artists André Derain, Stuart Davis, and Giorgio de Chirico, explore three techniques for creating a landscape, and create a collage inspired by one of three works from the Gallery’s Collection.

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  • Wide Awake Dreaming

    For Grades 3–5

    English Language Arts; Visual Arts

    Related to The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
    On View November 4, 2011–March 4, 2012
    This lesson plan explores how Joan Miró, one of the artists in the 1920s and 1930s who became known as the Surrealists, used dreams and the unconscious to create his whimsical, playful painting known as Carnival of Harlequin. It includes hands-on activities and discussion to encourage students to create their own imaginary creatures.

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