Presents a lesson on George Wesley Bellows's 1910 painting, "Polo At Lakewood." This lesson is designed to introduce senior high students to the theme of genre painting. (BSR)

Two studies investigated: (1) the art preference of young children for realistic, stylized, and abstract styles; and (2) the influence that exposure to art has on these style preferences. Analyses revealed that exposure increased preference for the selected painting as well as preference for other paintings in that style. (PCB)

Uses Gerald Murphy's painting "Watch" to encourage students in grades 7-9 to recognize design elements and principles in everyday objects and discover how shapes from such objects were combined in overlapping arrangements in the painting. Provides student objectives, background information on the artist and the paining, instructional strategies,…

Through great works of art students can gain pivotal insights into their common political and cultural heritage and their own personal struggles. (Author/MD)

Ohio schools have developed a Balanced Comprehensive Art Curriculum (BCAC) that includes art history, art criticism, and art in society as well as traditional art production. Students in kindergarten through 12th grade receive equitable instruction in all four curriculum areas. Includes a resource list and table. (MD)

Based on Maynard Dixon's oil painting, "Free Speech," this lesson attempts to expand high school students' understanding of art as a social commentary and the use of works of art to convey ideas and ideals. (JDH)

Presents a lesson on John F. Peto's 1904/1906 painting "A Closet Door." The lesson is intended to introduce students in grades four through six to still life painting. (JDH)

Based on Stuart Davis's 1925 painting, "Super Table," the goal of this lesson is to introduce students in grades 10 through 12 to the formal characteristics of early twentieth-century modernism and to show how Davis captures the unique atmosphere of U.S. life in the 1920s by his abstract style. (JDH)

Offers a "marketing strategy" for arts education. Provides statistics from the Americans and the Arts survey, conducted in 1984 by the National Research Center of the Arts, which shows solid public support for the arts both in and out of school. (JDH)

The first art lesson helps middle-school students to understand characteristics, methods, and the historical significance of Cubist paintings as shown in Picasso's "Still Life with Compote and Glass." In the second lesson high school students learn about Cezanne's work and his relationship to the Impressionists and 20th century artists.…

The clustering strategy increased the metaphoric nature of college students' written interpretations for realistic, abstract, and nonobjective paintings. Relaxed attention exercises significantly increased metaphoric interpretations of realistic paintings only. (Author/RM)

A writer and illustrator of children's books describes the creation of his prize winning work and cautions fellow artists that special care must be taken in printing and binding if their original illustrations are to be faithfully reproduced. (RBW)

Describes how the art director works with artists from the early planning stages of a book, supervises the preparation of mechanicals, and works with the production department. (CRH)

Describes the historical origins of photomontage and suggests certain predominant themes, intersections, and parallel developments, asserting that the field of photo montage is so vast that it has as many possibilities as there are different milieu, and in its social structure and the resulting psychological super-structure the milieu changes…

Describes an art activity aimed at the creation of a free-flowing design of lines and shapes. (Author/RK)