Category: Curriculum

Your Destination: Growing from Surrealism, Abstract expressionism combines the emotional intensity of expressionism with the abstract European forms of art like Cubism, Futurism and Bauhaus. The term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940’s and 1950’s. It is often recognized by emotional brush-strokes or mark-making, …

Your Destination: Best known for its comparison of uncommon things, Surrealism consisted of uncomfortable, illogical scenes and creatures made from everyday objects, painted in photo-like detail, with the main idea being the merging of the awake and the dream world, creating something that exists in between both.   Using the handout, you can create your own trippy …

Your Destination: Beginning in Italy, Futurism emphasized speed, technology, youth, and objects like the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Futurism is best known for creating feelings of being young and active while including the new technologies of their time.   Using the handout, you will create a piece of art that shows …

Your Destination: In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up, and put back together in an abstracted (not normal)  form—instead of showing objects from one view, the artist presents the subject from a bunch of different viewpoints to show the subject as a whole.   Using the handout, you at home can create a …

Your Destination: Coming from ragtime, jazz was a musical sensation that took over the mind of America through its infectious rhythm and, at the time, shocking, dance moves. People like John Philip Sousa and Chuck Berry have become Icons in America that have lasted all the way until today. At home, look at different jazz dances …

Your Destination: Coming from ragtime, jazz was a musical sensation that took over the mind of America through its infectious rhythm and, at the time, shocking, dance moves. People like John Philip Sousa and Chuck Berry have become Icons in America that have lasted all the way until today.   At home, look at different jazz dances …