Web Links

Being An Artist: A Cubism and Collage Experience

Internet links to provide additional background knowledge and extended lessons:

Lesson 1

Research the art of the untrained: “Grandma Moses” Anna Mary Robertson, American painter, 1860 -1961
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Moses

Folk art, embroidered samplers from 18th Century America: Henri Rousseau, French naïve painter, 1844 -1910
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rousseau

Lesson 3

Visit the On-line Picasso Project and check out the year 1912. How many pieces of art can you find with a guitar image? Picasso was a prolific artist!
http://picasso.tamu.edu/picasso/

Lesson 5

Learn more about Braque and Picasso during their Cubist period: Wilkin, Karen, Braque, New York 1991
http://www.eyeconart.net/history/cubism.htm

Lesson 7

View another version of “The Three Musicians” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/53963.html

Lesson 8

Return to the On-Line Picasso Project and find other examples of Surrealism in the year 1927. (select: artworks, 1927) Be sure to pre-screen the images before allowing students to view the work. Picasso used surrealistic images for almost ten years. Check out other years and see his progression http://picasso.tamu.edu/picasso/

Lesson 9

Take a guided tour into the life and art of Romare Bearden
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/the_block/teacher.html

Visit NPR’s website
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1428038

Lesson 10

Learn more from the Romare Bearden Foundation
http://www.beardenfoundation.org/index2.shtml

View an elementary school project inspired by Romare Bearden: “Spiral On” is a 70’ long, collaged mural in which you will find incredible Bearden-like musicians made by 3rd grade students
http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/departments/art/spiral/spiralondescribed.html