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All I Want to Do Is Dance, Dance, Dance!
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Students will observe dance movements depicted in a drawing and a painting. Partners will use simple lines to draw their partner's movements and paint dance costumes on the figures using various brushstrokes. Students will write a persuasive speech to the school superintendent explaining why they believe dance should be a regular part of the curriculum. They will then model dance movements for classmates in teams of four and recite their persuasive speech to the class.

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Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Date Added:
04/06/2023
Analyzing Paintings about Architecture (Advanced Level)
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Students will examine two paintings and discuss the use of architectural elements and vantage points in the paintings. Referring to the elements of art, students will also examine how three-dimensional shapes are transformed into two-dimensional forms in paintings, as well as the use of indoor space vs. outdoor space.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Arts and Humanities
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
05/11/2023
Architectural Elements in Art (Intermediate Level)
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Students will examine the use of the elements of art, including line, shape, form, texture, and color, in a drawing. They will also study the elements of architecture and learn to identify architectural elements in detail and their relationship to the surrounding landscape. Then students will draw an ancient Roman temple in perspective, integrating architectural elements in the drawing.

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Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/11/2023
The Art and Depiction of Dance (Beginning Level)
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Students will learn about an artist's sketchbook that includes drawings of ballet dancers. They will practice two ballet steps and discuss how an artist uses line to depict dancers in rehearsal. Students will make a sketchbook and produce a series of quick sketches of dancers.

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Arts and Humanities
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
04/06/2023
The Art and Depiction of Dance (Intermediate Level)
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Students will learn about axial movements and locomotor movements by discussing dancers depicted in a drawing and photograph. They will then practice combining axial and locomotor movements. They will describe how artists depict a dancer's motion in drawing and photography. They will also analyze how an artist creates movement and emphasis through contrast, composition, and leading lines, and then experiment with photography to capture motion in dance.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
04/06/2023
Buildings, Buildings Everywhere
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Students gain awareness of shapes in architecture by creating a painting of their school and writing a reflective summary of their study of architecture.

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Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/11/2023
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography (Advanced Level)
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Students create and use pinhole cameras to understand how artists use and manipulate light to capture images in photographs. They shoot and develop photographs made with pinhole cameras. They compare and contrast a nineteenth-century image, photographs taken with a pinhole camera, and pictures created with a digital camera or camera phone.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson Plan
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
04/07/2023
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography (Intermediate Level)
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Students create pinhole cameras to learn how artists manipulate light to make photographs. They describe and analyze a nineteenth-century photograph and use their cameras to capture the architecture of their school or other buildings.

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Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson Plan
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/11/2023
Connecting to Centennial
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Using a "Thirty-Second Look" activity, students will look closely at and describe the painting A Centennial of Independence. The students will read their ideas and note line, shape, and other details. Then students will create a favorite outdoor memory inspired by the painting, using crayons and the elements of art to guide their work. They will also make connections to the theme of "teamwork."

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
04/07/2023
Creating a Garden (Beginning Level)
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Students will observe images of gardens, visualizing and imagining the shapes, colors, textures, sounds, and smells of the plants, flowers, and other objects in a garden. They will also write about and sketch their observations. Students will then design and create a model of their own imagined garden.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
04/07/2023
Documentary Photography: Body Image
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Students will analyze a photograph to learn about body image. They will also discuss how society views the human body in different cultures.

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Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Health, Medicine and Nursing
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
04/05/2023
Documentary Photography: Photography and Choreography
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Students will engage in visual and written activities that will support their creative process of choreographing a solo dance composition. The lesson includes motifs and the movement components -- body, effort, shape, and space (BESS elements from Laban Movement Analysis).

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
04/06/2023
Historical Context: Discovering a Painting
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Students will work in groups to visually analyze a work of art and then research what was happening in the time period when the work was made. Students will then discuss what impact their research had on their original perceptions. Students will finally be given background information about the work of art and will discuss how their ideas are different or similar to what they read.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
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Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
04/07/2023
If These Walls Could Talk
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Students will gain insight into the influence of the Enlightenment on American society and government by comparing Neoclassical objects from the Getty collection to American civic architecture of the time.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/11/2023
Imagining China Through Words
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Students will create a drawing from a written description and examine and discuss how European artists from the past created images of China that combined imagination with written descriptions and limited visual imagery.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
04/07/2023
People: Family
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This lesson focuses on a family depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and families. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using possessive adjectives. Students are challenged to infer what the relationships are between figures depicted and what individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.

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Arts and Humanities
Education
English Language Arts
Language Education (ESL)
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
04/07/2023
The Poetry of Architecture (Advanced Level)
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Students will examine architectural structures in paintings and how they are used, also considering the art elements, composition, emphasis, color, and light. They will also study the relationship between the built environment and nature in the paintings. Students then complete activities in which they select words and phrases to describe a painting's mood and write related poetry. Then they create drawings and write related poetry. As an optional activity, students may construct their own "camera obscura" and create a drawing.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/11/2023
Pretty Ugly? The Grotesque in Art and Poetry
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Students will discuss works of art that have grotesque elements and symmetry in their design. They will identify symmetry and line in grotesques. Students will create symmetrical designs for a pilgrim bottle and also design a door panel using grotesques. They will then analyze William Blake's poem "The Tiger" and write their own grotesque-inspired poetry.

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Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson Plan
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
04/07/2023
Rocky Observations
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Students will use visual analysis to examine two images of rocks. They will make their own observations of individual rocks through drawing, and understand how the same observation skills can be used in the study of geology.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Earth and Space Science
Geology
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
04/07/2023
The Ultimate Desk
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This series of lessons will provide students with an understanding of the Baroque period and help them identify decorative arts and architecture from that period. After studying Baroque paintings, furniture, architecture, and craft guilds, students will create a mixed-media sculpture inspired by Bernard van Risenburgh's Double Desk. Throughout the unit, students will reflect on their experiences in journals.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Lesson Plan
Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
05/11/2023