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Overview Major Goals/Aims Target Students Standards Addressed
Students
will experience original works of art in the Guggenheim Museum through an online
tour of the Guggenheim
Museum in New York City. Students
will value and appreciate the unique architecture of the building as well
as develop an understanding and purpose of this design, and its
relationship to Central Park in NYC. They
will focus their attention on a single painting of their choosing, which
they will interpret in acrylic paint on canvas, and they will lead a
detailed class discussion of many aspects of their chosen painting.
A classroom museum will be set up for all the school community to
see. Class discussion of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the history of the building will be researched and discussed in class. Students will be introduced to Wright’s spiral design that allows visitors to walk on the gentle slope of a continuous ramp. They will analyze and evaluate this design from the perspective of a visitor to the museum. They will note how this contrasts to other museums with interconnecting rooms. In class, students will have the opportunity to visit the Guggenheim’s permanent collection online, in addition to participating in a teacher created slide presentation and follow up discussion. Using teacher led visual literacy questioning strategies, students will tap into their critical thinking skills. This technique will spark interest and curiosity about selected paintings in the art museum and prompt students to begin to have their reactions move from personal opinion to informed judgments. The following paintings have been selected to be viewed and discussed: Pierre
Auguste Renoir - Woman with Parrot Edouard
Vuillard – Place Ventimille Franz
Marc – Yellow Cow Marc
Chagall – Green Violinist (Note: you may find additional images online using the "image" search feature in http://www.google.com) Students will be given the following homework assignment, and may review the slides discussed in class, as well as spend time in the computer lab.
“The Guggenheim’s collection encompasses a vast array from the classic to the new; striking a balance that reflects the dynamic tenor of the institution as a whole.” To arrange a class visit, receive slides, or attend workshops from the museum’s collection, you may contact the Guggenheim Museum @ www.guggenheim.org or museum education department: Education@guggenheim.org, the Sackler Center for Arts Education. The Guggenheim Museum is located at 5th Ave. & 88th Street, in New York City, 212-423-3500. I’ve created this lesson for my eighth grade major talent art class. However, it is easily adaptable to all age groups: - K – 12 - After school classes - Community organization groups - Scouting - Senior citizen groups - College level courses The class meets for four, forty-five minute periods per week in the art classroom. This unit can usually be completed in one month. Library visits and computer lab visits aid in our web exploration of modern artists. Students have Internet access at home that lends itself to my assigning homework to gather additional research and background information at home. If your students are not able to access the Internet at home or at the public library, then scheduled class visits to the school computer lab will be necessary.
This unit fulfills the following New York State Learning Standards for the Arts, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Technology. The Arts: Standard
1. Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts. Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation in the visual arts. Standard
2. Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources. Students
will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources
available for participation in the arts. Standard
3. Responding to and Analyzing Works of Art. Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to aspects of human endeavor and thought. Standard
4. Understanding the Cultural Contributions of the Arts. Students
will develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that
shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse
cultures of past and present society.
English Language Arts: Standard 1. Language for Information and Understanding. Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding. Standard
2. Language for Literary Response and Expression. Students
will read, write, listen and speak for literary response and expression. Standard
3. Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation. Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation. Social Studies: Standard
1: History of the United States and New York
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York. Standard
2: World History
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives. Standard
3: Geography
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.
Technology: Standard
5. Technology. |
