Described are art activities that will challenge students to be creative by asking them to draw or sketch their ideas or fantasies regarding some aspect of the future. (RM)

Adults sometimes fail to appreciate the depth of understanding shown in children's art. Examination of drawings in the Prospect Archive (North Bennington, Vermont), a collection of 200,000 pieces of children's art, suggests that houses have great meaning for children and that much can be learned about children from their drawings. (IS)

History and geography are more than units in textbooks for students in Warren County, Mississippi. Here students have the opportunity to express visually and verbally the influences of the Mighty Mississippi on everyday life. (Author/RK)

The present study investigated the degree of accuracy of five groups of judges in inferring pathology in human figure drawings. It was suggested that intuition gained through several years of unsystematic observation of figure drawings played the major role in their interpretation. (Author)

This teaching guide discusses Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas (1834-1917), his paintings, and his sculpture. The guide focuses on his paintings of daily activities at the horse racetrack in Paris (France). The unit has a concise biography of Degas. It is divided into two parts: Part 1: "Paintings and Drawings" (Kimberly Jones); and Part 2:…

Experience in the visual arts promotes students' development of perceptual skills. Visual perception relies on identifying, sorting, and organizing images. This study hypothesized that drawings by Native American and Caucasian students would evidence different visual images when drawn from the same visual stimulus. Students in ninth-grade art…

Author stresses that child art has a different interpretation for adults than it does for children, and an understanding of child art can open our minds to better appreciation and respect for all art, all children, and all artists. (Author/RK)

After viewing and discussing slides of Van Gogh's and Munch's paintings and studying the principles of color, middle school students had to execute two drawings, one showing any emotion and the second depicting an expressionistic self-portrait. (RM)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the interaction of biological unfolding and culturally related factors on sequences of narrative figure drawings by American and Egyptian elementary students. Findings support hypotheses relating to the interaction of natural and nurtural influences on children's drawings. (Author/SJL)

Describes an activity in which eighth graders explored color relationships in art. Students selected their favorite pieces of art work, redrew and redesigned the artists' composition, and then painted them using completely different color schemes. Student confidence in their own artistic judgment and capabilities increased. (AM)

The authors present an art teaching idea which extends the graphic discussion method described in the October 1981 issue. Rather than drawing together, the two participants respond in writing to each other's completed work, which provides an essential aspect of art learning--responding to another artist's images. (SJL)