This paper discusses the development and implementation of the system-wide assessment of arts learning in primary and secondary schools that took place in Western Australia in September 1996. The paper describes the background to the assessment, the design brief, and the assessment package as a whole, focusing on the visual arts tests. It…

Mary Cassatt's paintings and graphics depict the world of 19th-century women, mothers, and children. Her exploration of intimate domestic life is informed by an unsurpassed ability to capture the natural, sometimes awkward poses of her figures and her refusal to "prettify" her subjects. This teaching guide gives an overview of Cassatt's…

The Peale family could be termed the "first family" of U.S. art. The patriarch, Charles Willson Peale, was an accomplished painter, scientist, inventor, founder of museums and art societies; his dynasty included his nine children and his younger brother, James Peale. This teaching guide discusses their diverse contributions to U.S. art…

What types of considerations are appropriate for selecting artists to represent key themes in the history of art? How do minority artists in the United States fit into this selection process? Previously, most art history courses and texts emphasized the highlights of significant creative expression as evolving in the Western world antiquity. In…

This book is intended as a guide for parents, teachers, and others interested in developing creative art talent in young people. The book is based on the following assumptions: (1) being able to recognize and knowing how to identify creative individuals with special talent in art, guidance can be given to maximize the achievement of their…

Author feels that it is important for child artists to relate to the art forms of given periods and societies in their understanding of artistic influences. (Author/GB)

Presented a variety of visual situations through which the art student can be motivated to color, shape and delineate the particular quality of his or her felt experience. (Author/RK)

Discusses art history from the standpoint of the circumstances surrounding the artists themselves. (GB)

This bibliographic essay discusses sources on popular culture, both general works and selected works dealing with the cultural aspects of music, advertising, television, and film. (Author/JH)

Describes an art teacher's technique of teaching about abstraction in art by having students draw and paint their impressions of various sounds. (GB)

Students join in a creative venture to enhance their surroundings. (RK)

The forty-fifth National High School Art Exhibition revealed that students are no longer preoccupied with the disjunctions of the Sixties.'' (Editor)

Author attempts some clarification of his general philosophy of art and of the teaching of painting. (Author/MB)

How to introduce batik into a grade seven art program. Suggests methods and materials to use. (RB)

The author describes the relationship between media, expression, and the arts and suggests what these relationships imply for educational practice, the arts and media research. (Author/AS)