Picturing America

America's history through America's art

Lesson Plans:

Allegory in Painting

Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad: From Painting to Poem

Everything in its right place: An Introduction to Composition in Painting
Lesson 1: Shaping the View: Composition Basics
Lesson 2: Shaping the View: Symmetry and Balance
Lesson 3: Repeat After Me: Repetition in the Visual Arts
Lesson 4: Follow the Leader: Line in the Visual Arts

Horse of a Different Color: An Introduction to Color in the Visual Arts
Lesson 1: In Depth with the Full Spectrum
Lesson 2: Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

I've Just Seen a Face: Portraits

An Introduction to the Relationship Between Composition and Content in the Visual Arts

Martin Puryear’s Ladder for Booker T. Washington

Midnight Ride of Paul Revere—Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License

Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción and the Spanish Mission in the New World

Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech—Know It When You See It

Realistic Impressions: Investigating Movements in the Visual Arts

What’s in a Picture? An Introduction to Subject in the Visual Arts

Monthly Features:

December 2008 - Emmanuel Leutze’s Symbolic Scene of Washington Crossing the Delaware

September 2008 - National Hispanic Heritage Month

August 2008 - Winslow Homer: The Veteran in a New Field

July 2008 - Four Freedoms for the Fourth






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