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Students will examine porcelain objects and see how their original use has been changed to create a new decorative object or an object with a new function. They will then take everyday utilitarian objects and re-create them into new objects that can be functional or entirely decorative.

Students explore a portrait of two historical princesses and consider the adornments the both wear. Each student compares these adornments to the decorative objects worn by a woman in their own lives and sketches a portrait of that woman, focusing on the objects of adornment she wears.

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Students will examine the details and color in an 1821 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting two sisters who are exiled princesses. Students will read a tale about the Brothers Grimm, who were writing fairy tales during the same time period that these sisters were exiled. Students will then write and illustrate a fairy tale inspired by the painting.

Students write and illustrate a short fantasy story based on the book "Corduroy".They create a character who has an adventure in a palace. The decorative arts collection at the Getty Museum provides inspiration for this palace setting.

This lesson focuses on people doing leisure activities as depicted in a work of art. Students practice using vocabulary related to people and leisure. Activities emphasize oral and written descriptions of the people portrayed in the work of art, using action verbs. Students are challenged to infer what leisure activities individuals are doing based on such clues as their pose.

Students create a work of art and write a story about "Man with a Hoe Five Years Later." Students also photograph their hands with a tool and write about what wonderful tools hands are.

This art history video discussion examines Pierre Le Gros the Younger's "Stanislas Kostka on His Deathbed", 1703, upstairs at Bernini's Sant'Andrea al Quirinale.

This lesson focuses on different exterior spaces depicted in works of art. Students practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and how people react to the sea. Activities in this section teach students about some of the elements of art (color and line), adjectives, and two kinds of sentences (declarative and imperative).

This art history video discussion looks at Georges Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" - 1884, 1884-86, oil on canvas (The Art Institute of Chicago).

This art history video discussion looks at Nicolas Poussin's "Landscape with Saint John on Patmos", 1640, oil on canvas (Art Institute of Chicago).

Students will analyze art elements and symbolism on a 17th-century cabinet and create cardboard cabinets using symbols to convey a message.

Students will discuss the sculpture "Python Killing a Gnu" by Antoine-Louis Barye. They will use their imagination to visualize a setting for the python depicted in sculpture. Then they will describe their setting, sculpt a clay snake, and create their setting using mixed media.

Students will study the pastel drawing "Waiting" by Edgar Degas and discuss the story Degas may be telling through the body language and clothing of the people in the work of art. They will then create a pastel drawing depicting a time when they had to wait for something and compose a brief narrative based on this memory.

This art history video discussion examines Pierre Auguste Renoir's "La Loge", 1874, oil on canvas (Courtauld Gallery, London). This painting was exhibited by Renoir at the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris (1874).

This art history video discussion examines Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Moulin de la Galette", 1876, oil on canvas (Musee d'Orsay, Paris).

This art history video discussion examines Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "The Grands Boulevards", 1875, oil on canvas (Philadelphia Museum of Art).

This art history video discussion examines Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "The Large Bathers", 1884-87, oil on canvas, (Philadelphia Museum of Art

This art history video discussion examines Auguste Rodin's "The Gates of Hell" 1880-1917, plaster (Musee d'Orsay, Paris).When the building, earlier on the site of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, was destroyed by fire during the Commune in 1871, plans were drawn up to replace it with a museum of decorative arts. Rodin won the competition to design a great set of doors for its entry way. Although the museum was never built, Rodin continued to work on the doors. They became an ongoing project; a grand stage for his sculptural ideas. It's fitting that the plaster of this great unfinished sculpture, The Gates of Hell, is now on display at the d'Orsay, the former railway terminal that was built on this site instead of the museum of decorative arts and that, by lovely coincidence, was converted into one of the world's great art museums.