Mixing art history with practical experience in the elementary school can be a very rewarding experience. Through this process children receive an introduction to various artists. Here they learn about Rouault and his art works and attempt to translate his concepts with their own art work. (Author/RK)

The traveling exhibition titled "The Wild Beasts: Fauvism and its Affinities" opened first at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and was then moved to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1976. Discusses the exhibition's historic value, how Fauvism passed through three fairly distinct stylistic phases, and the social…

Describes some of the work of two members of the Half Moon Photography Workshop Collective, an independent London gallery committed to showing social and documentary photography. Examines The Workshop's major aim of promoting interest in the use of photography as a critical educational tool. (MH)

The message we can get from McLuhan is to use the visual communication that conveys its own message, as in the case of advertising arts. (HOD)

Describes an art program staffed by volunteers and utilizing materials costing an average of less than $50.00 per school. It attempts to supplement the teaching of art in the elementary grades by introducing youngsters to fine art and encouraging their enjoyment and appreciation of it. (Author/RK)

Imagination is indispensable for knowing the world. However, visual and musical imagery are ignored in education. Adult literacy education can be enhanced by the process of reading the world through print, pictures, and music. (SK)

Examines the key role that memory plays in the meaning-making process that children enact as they read and view images in a classroom that respects and encourages their own views and reflections. Discusses the six major categories of children's visual responses, and presents representative examples of children's illustrations. (TB)

Considers the importance of teachers learning about an artistic discipline in much the same way that language arts teachers are encouraged to write. Discusses knowing what materials can do, making materials mean something, and children's artistic intentions. Visits two second-grade classrooms in which working with clay invites students to think…

Presents speculations on broadening the concept of literacy and using pictures to teach. Discusses the importance and value of training students to "read" a painting and, by extension, a visual image and how this fits into promoting a culture of literacy. Considers the application of reader-response theory to pictures as text. (SG)

Demonstrates how a final year student teacher takes up a two-stage methodology for reflective practice generated from the principles of traditional literary theory and cultural studies, particularly poststructuralism. He produced a personal reading of his field experience documented as a picture book, and then a critically alternative (re)reading.…

Swedish nursing students (n=72) conducted group dialogues about empathy using Munch's painting "The Sick Girl"; a control group of 72 students discussed empathy. The visual art group were more emotionally engaged in learning about empathy and their learning was more structured. (Contains 18 references.) (SK)

Explores three broad areas of inquiry: what significance visual images have for rhetorical analysis; how a study of nonverbal material might be conducted; and whether visual explanations depend on the image or the viewer. Argues that viewers understand Joseph Wright's painting "The Air Pump" in terms of its subject, its exhibition space, the…

Considers that in order to be successful offering visual art lessons in the classroom, pre- and inservice teachers must develop a deeper more conceptual understanding of the power of art to communicate meanings, beliefs, ideologies, and experiences. Suggests teacher enroll in a high-quality arts course, create some authentic works of art, use…

The article describes a program at a special school for retarded and otherwise handicapped children in Japan which stresses development of artistic talents. The children's work has been the subject of an exhibition in Paris. (Author/DB)

In 2 experiments, 168 undergraduates tested a newly devised mnemonic strategy to help recall various paintings' themes and contents. The effectiveness of cuing the artist's name with a prominent feature of the painting was demonstrated. A mnemonic variation that incorporated a verbally described mnemonic interaction into the painting was most…