Student access to arts education and the quality of such instruction in the nation's public schools continue to be of concern to policymakers, educators, and families. Specifically, research has focused on questions such as: To what extent do students receive instruction in the arts? Under what conditions is this instruction provided? What is the…

The use of "magic paint can awaken visual and emotional perception. (CK)

Teaching children how to draw the human form is discussed. (DB)

A brief description of the BLACK ARTISTS: TWO GENERATIONS show, held at the Newark Museum during the summer of 1971, precedes a series of pictures from the show. (MC)

Art students were introduced to architecture and environmental sculpture and were encouraged to visit construction sites to improve their observation skills. (CK)

Discusses how creative individuals maintain high levels of variability, examining how Claude Monet's habitually high level of variability in painting was acquired during his childhood and early apprenticeship and maintained throughout his adult career by a continuous series of task constraints imposed by the artist on his own work. For Monet,…

Because beauty has for a long time now been politically incorrect (at least among certain influential critics and academic historians) the art of Henri Matisse has recently suffered from a kind of benign neglect. His goals were luxury, calm, and voluptuousness, not social critique. Liberated from any vital connection with everyday life, they often…

This article details the work of Raymond Pettibon. Raymond Pettibon's pictures place an equal emphasis on drawing and writing. Working with a cast of characters drawn from worlds as different as Saturday morning cartoons and politics, he tells stories that can be both amusing and critical.

To help librarians answer patrons' questions about art works, especially paintings, the procedures followed by the reference division of the Suffolk Cooperative Library System are outlined, and a list of reference materials is suggested. Topics covered include biographical information about artists, identification of paintings, location of…

Uses Marsden Hartley's "Indian Fantasy" to explore with students in grades 7-9 the variety of expressive qualities of an early twentieth-century U.S. artist working abroad. Presents lesson objectives, instructional strategies, evaluation criteria, and background information about the artist and painting. (GEA)