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Abstract Expressionism
- "Abstract Expressionism" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "The Sound of Movement" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Abstract Expressionism: A New Art for a New World" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Artists and the Past" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Make a Monument" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Abstract Expressionist Sculpture" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "What is a Sculpture" Worksheet (.doc)
- "The Processes and Materials of Abstract Expressionist Painting" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Debate: Chaos vs. Control" Worksheet (.doc)
- "From Figuration to Abstraction" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Line Dictionary" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Make a Collage" Worksheet (.doc)
- MoMA-Learning_De-Kooning-and-the-Representation-of-Women
- "The Sublime and the Spiritual" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Make an Abstract Drawing" Worksheet (.doc)
- MoMA-Learning_The-Chapels-of-Rothko-and-Nevelson
- "Art and Spirituality" Worksheet (.doc)
Advanced Placement Art History Exam
Conceptual Art
- “Conceptual Art” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Activating Materials" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Language and Art" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Repetition and Meaning” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Interpreting LeWitt’s Instructions” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Sol LeWitt and Instruction-based Art” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “The Wit of Sol LeWitt” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Challenging Conventions” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Words and Images” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Following and Breaking with Tradition” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Outside the Museum” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Debating Daniel Buren” Worksheet (.doc)
Cubism
- “Artistic Exchange” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Cubism” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Exploring Perspectives through Photography" Worksheet (.doc)
Dada
- “Research Dada Cities” worksheet (.doc)
- Worksheet_Artists_and_their_Time
- "Dada" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Artist Collaboration" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Artistic Collaboration" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Create a Poem Object with a Partner” worksheet (.doc)
- “Chance Creations” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “The ‘Degenerate Art’ Exhibition” worksheet (.doc)
- Worksheet_MakeaCollage
- Worksheet_Readymade
- “Duchamp and the Readymade” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- Worksheet_ArtandControversy
- “What Makes a Work of Art?” worksheet (.doc)
- “Word Play” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Make a Poem with Chance” worksheet (.doc)
Design
- "Design" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- Design_Journal
- "Essential Objects" Worksheet (.doc)
- Design_Design-Your-Own-Chair
- "Chairs" PowerPoint Slideshow
- "Everyday Marvels" PowerPoint Slideshow
- "Sweet Inspiration" Worksheet
- Design_Humble-Masterpieces
- "Design Objects in Context" Worksheet
- "Plastics" PowerPoint Slideshow
- Design_Plastics-and-the-Environment
- "Simple Machines" PowerPoint Slideshow
- Design_Geometric-Beauty
- Design_Tools-as-Solutions
Expressionism
- "Expressionism" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Expressionism and City Life" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Linear Thinking” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Horsepower” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Impress/Express” Worksheet (.doc)
- "Expressionism and Nature" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "After the War" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Critic Critique" Worksheet (.doc)
- Degenerates!" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Living in America" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Expressionist Depictions of War" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Expressionist Portraits" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Degenerate Art" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Hand Signals" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Picturing People" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Self-Portraits" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Talk Time" Worksheet (.doc)
Fauvism
Investigating Identity
- “Identity Exchange” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Investigating Identity” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Constructing Gender” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Role Call” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Identity Theft” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Ad Age” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Intersecting Identities” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Most Wanted” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Identity Factors” Worksheet (.doc)
- “The Body in Art” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Beauty is Skin Deep” Worksheet (.doc)
- "Comparing Notes" Worksheet (.doc)
- MoMA-Learning_Worksheet_TheBodyAsAPaintbrush
- MoMA-Learning_Worksheet_HairAndIdentity
Maps, Borders, and Networks
- "Maps, Borders, and Networks" Powerpoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Identity Mapping" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Make a Mental Map" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Shifting Borders" Worksheet (.doc)
Migration and Movement
- MoMA-Learning_Worksheet_MigrantStories
- "Migration and Movement" Powerpoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Home Dictionary" Worksheet (.doc)
- "Make A Family Immigration Map" Worksheet (.doc)
- "On The Move" Worksheet (.doc)
Minimalism
- "Minimalism" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Looking at Flavin” worksheet (.doc)
- “Mirrors and Light” worksheet (.doc)
- “Constructing Space” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- Worksheet_Describing_Kusama
- Worksheet_HesseLeWitt
- “Serial Forms and Repetition” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Your Own Hesse” worksheet (.doc)
- "Stella Says" Worksheet (.doc)
- “The Materials of Minimalism” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Debating Donald Judd worksheet (.doc)
- “Comparing Artists’ Approaches” worksheet (.doc)
Photography
- “Photography” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- ”Celebrity Appearances” Worksheet (.doc)
- ”Before and After: Two Portraits of a President” Worksheet (.doc)
- ”Shaping an Image” Worksheet (.doc)
- "Photography and the Public Image" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- ”A Closer Look at Migrant Mother” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Photography as Witness” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- ”Art or Propaganda?” Worksheet (.doc)
- Photography_1MinutePortrait
- Photography_CandidCamera
- “Posed/Unposed” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- ”Imagining a Character” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Sets, Stories and Situations” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- ”Street Seen” Worksheet (.doc)
- "The Photographic Record” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- ”Document Your Neighborhood” Worksheet (.doc)
Pop Art
- “Pop Art” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Appropriation" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Transform an Object” worksheet (.doc)
- “Alter an Advertisement” Worksheet (.doc)
- "Pop Art Presentation" Worksheet (.doc)
- “Rauschenberg & Co.” worksheet (.doc)
- “Take a Stand” Worksheet (.doc)
- PopArt_NewSocialNetwork
- “Construct a Celebrity Collage” Worksheet (.doc)
- "Create a Self-Portrait" Worksheet (.doc)
- “Letter to the Editor: If I Were a Celebrity for a Day” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Celebrity” Powerpoint slideshow (.ppt)
Surrealism
- “Surrealism” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Write Your Manifesto” worksheet (.doc)
- Worksheet_MakeaCreature
- “Surrealism and the Body” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Postcards from Paintings” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Surrealist Landscapes” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Keep a Dream Journal” Worksheet (.doc)
- Worksheet_Shadowbox
- “Surrealist Assemblage” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Automatism & Dreams” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- Worksheet_ExquisiteCorpse
- “Make an Inkblot Drawing” Worksheet (.doc)
- Worksheet_Frottage
- “Free Associate” Worksheet (.doc)
What Is Modern Art?
- What is ModernArt? PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- "Modern Landscapes" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Read and Write a Poem” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Create a Cityscape or Landscape with Mood” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Write a Descriptive Essay” Worksheet” (.doc)
- “Postcards from Paintings” Worksheet (.doc)
- Worksheet_CompareTwoPortraits
- “Create a Symbolic Self-Portrait” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Portraits” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Make a Portrait of Someone You Know” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Painting Modern Life” PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “Host a Salon” Worksheet” (.doc)
- "Popular Culture" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
- “The Cult of Celebrity in Promoting Culture” Worksheet” (.doc)
- “Analyze an Advertisement and Create Your Own” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Design and Advertise a City Improvement” Worksheet (.doc)
- Worksheet_DocumentCity
- “Debate Topic: Eugène Atget” Worksheet (.doc)
- “Create Your Own World’s Fair” Worksheet” (.doc)
- "Rise of the Modern City" PowerPoint Slideshow (.ppt)
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Explore the archiveTips for Teaching with Works of Art
Five Tips for Teaching with Works of Art
Teaching Tips: Marcel Duchamp. Bicycle Wheel. 1951
Teaching Tips: José Clemente Orozco. Dive Bomber and Tank. 1940
Teaching Tips: Jasper Johns. Map. 1961
Teaching Tips: Jackson Pollock. One: Number 31, 1950. 1950
Teaching Tips: Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawing #1144, Broken Bands of Color in Four Directions. 2004
Teaching Tips: Richard Serra. To Lift. 1967
Teaching Tips: David Alfaro Siqueiros. Collective Suicide. 1936
Teaching Tips: Pablo Picasso. Girl Before a Mirror. 1932
Teaching Tips: Frida Kahlo. Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair. 1940
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