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Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st

For this lesson, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...

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Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st

In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...

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Poetics by Aristotle

For Students 9th - 10th

Well here it is, the basis for Art Imitating Nature! This site is all text translated by S. H. Butcher. 26 chapters on the subject. If you wondered about the origins of the concept, here it is.

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The Frick Collection: Ingres

For Students 9th - 10th

A careful study of a portrait painting of the Comtesse d'Haussonville that illuminates the important qualities of Ingres's faultless neoclassical style.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim Museum: Looking at Art: Art Investigations: People in 1900 Paris

For Students 9th - 10th

Based on what you see in a painting, what kind of conclusions can you draw about the artist's view towards his or her subject matter? Examine Pablo Picasso's "Le Moulin de la Galette" and respond to thought-provoking writing/discussion...

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