Curated OER
Lesson: Mixing Metaphors across Current Events and Literature
Expression, current events, and art can go hand-in-hand. After analyzing a multi-media piece entitled, Trade Canoe for Don Quixote, the class explores their own expressive process. They create collages that show a current event or issue...
Curated OER
Art in Nazi Germany When Art and Politics Didn't Agree
Five lessons display the art created by Germans under the Weimar Republic. The focus of these lessons is to help learners understand the role of art in politics, government censorship, and Nazi tactics. Web links are included.
Curated OER
Art and Politics
Students analyze the work of three artists whose art work illustrates important political and social events. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze the art of Jasper Johns, Charles Moore, and Andy Warhol. Students complete image...
Library of Congress
Loc: Creating French Culture
Trace the relationship between power and culture using artwork in the collection of France's national library, the Bibliotheque nationale de France. The collection spans a lengthy history, from the reign of Charlemagne (eighth century)...
National Archives (UK)
Uk National Archives: The Art of War
A site that looks at historically significant illustrations, cartoons, films, and pictorial propoganda having to do with Britain's war efforts.
Arizona State University
Chicana and Chicano Space: Protest and Persuasion
Part of a larger website provided by Arizona State University on Chicano art, this learning is focused on "Protest and Persuasion," in art, particularly in printmaking or making murals. Includes lessons, sample work, and more.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Libraries:drawing From Life: Caricatures and Cartoons
A website dedicated to displaying a selection of political cartoons and caricatures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes biographies of many famous cartoonists and commentaries on the cartoonist's style and interests.
Other
Ithaca College: Project Look Sharp: Soviet History Through Posters
[Free Registration/Login Required] Multi-unit curriculum kit on the history of the Soviet Union told in five episodes using Soviet posters as source material. Coverage includes the birth of the Soviet Union, Stalin, the Great Patriotic...
PBS
Pbs Treasures of the World: Guernica Testimony of War
A wonderful site describing Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," a mural he created for the 1937 World's Fair. The resource examines the civil war raging in Picasso's homeland of Spain and the frustration he felt toward the violence taking place...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Presidents in Waiting
Exhibition of portraits of fourteen vice presidents who later became president tells the stories of their careers in pictures and words. Includes videos of taped interviews with four former vice presidents. [Exhibition opening: January...
US National Archives
National Archives: Running for Office
A collection of political cartoons by Clifford K. Berryman that illustrate the presidential campain trail. Most of these cartoons appeared on the front page of Washington newspapers from 1898 through 1948.
US National Archives
National Archives: Tokens & Treasures Gifts to Twelve Presidents
These gifts are unique records of each administration from Herbert Hoover through Bill Clinton. Many of them are handmade artworks. Some are from well known artists and others from supportive American citizens.
PBS
Pbs: How Art Made the World: Political Art of Augustus
The PBS series, titled "How Art Made the World," explains how a sculptural portrait of Augustus, the famous "Augustus of Prima Porta," was designed to further the political goals of Rome's first emperor. An excellent site for examining...
International Institute of Social History
International Institute of Social History: Chairman Smiles: Political Posters
Online exhibit of political posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba, and China, with discussion of the role they played in the revolutionary history of each country. [To access the Dutch version of the site, click back to home.]
PBS
Pbs: How Art Made the World: Image Power of Alexander
The PBS series, titled "How Art Made the World," takes a look at a number of different images of Alexander the Great, which have an unmistakable political purpose. Alexander wanted people everywhere to know that he was worthy to be in...
PBS
Pbs: American Masters: Diego Rivera
PBS provides a biographical article about the Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) who was married to fellow artist Frieda Kahlo.
US National Archives
National Archives: Designs for Democracy
A collection of government approved drawings and designs for hundreds of objects including ships, bridges, flags and more.