Lesson #4: Futurism

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 …

Lesson #3: Cubism

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 …

Adriana Varejão

Adriana Varejão is a Brazilian artist who is most famous for her azulejos, or glazed tiles used in Spanish and Portuguese architecture. Her tile paintings and installations are very large. Most of her work is inspired by what colonizers introduced into Brazilian society, like the tiles themselves and the blue …