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Putting a Spin on Current Events (Advanced Level)
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Students will compare propagandistic strategies in artworks to modern-day examples of persuasive techniques and create a propaganda poster for a current political leader.

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Arts Education
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Putting a Spin on Current Events (Intermediate Level)
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Students will examine the influence of Greek and Roman mythology on art, discuss strategies of propaganda in an ancient portrait and a 17th-century cabinet, and create a campaign poster for a classroom candidate that uses Greek or Roman iconography.

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Arts Education
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Puzzle Mystery
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Your students will have fun trying to solve a mystery in this lesson. Students are given a small detail of a painting, which they sketch and then give a title. Students shares their titles and try to determine the theme and subject of the full painting based on these clues. At the end of class the students put their details together like a puzzle to create a class reproduction of the painting.

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Arts Education
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Python, Python, What Do You See?
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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.

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Arts Education
Visual Arts
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Read All About It !Events and People of the 1930s and 1940s That Shaped California and the Nation
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Make connections between Dorothea Lange's images and the history of the Dust Bowl, the Depression, World War II, and large-scale agriculture in the United States. Students learn about the role of photography in news stories and write their own news story.

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Arts Education
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Referencing the Classical Past
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Students discuss the sculptural group "Three Goddesses" by Joseph Nollekens. They then discuss the 18th-century tradition of the Grand Tour and consider why wealthy 18th-century Europeans and people today seek associations with the classical past.

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Arts Education
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Relating to the Urban Environment
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Students will examine a photograph and participate in a class discussion about their own experiences living in the urban landscape. They will create a collage from magazines that reflect life in the city as they have experienced it. They will then write about their collage of the city.

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Arts Education
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Remembering Waiting
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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.

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Arts Education
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Revolutionary Europe: Rembrandt and Rubens Painting the Revolution
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Students will learn about the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter Reformation as related events. They will analyze works by the artists Rubens and Rembrandt, and use the artworks to illustrate the divergent beliefs and philosophies of the two movements.

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Arts Education
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Revolutionary Europe: Science & Exploration in the Decorative Arts
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Students will view three works of decorative arts and complete the accompanying activities to better understand the Age of Exploration and the Scientific Revolution, and how these "revolutions" and their discoveries influenced the new European world view.

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Arts Education
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
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10/18/2018
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.

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Arts Education
Earth Science
Science
Visual Arts
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Sacred Places: California Missions from Different Perspective
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Students explore the concept of a sacred place by looking at works of art representing sacred spaces, and studying the California missions. They explore perspective and point of view in both the visual and literary senses. Students create a project poster displaying photos, drawings, and journal writings that incorporate the major themes of California's missions, and use perspective and point of view both visually and in writing.

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Arts Education
Visual Arts
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Sculpting a Message: From the Counter-Reformation to the Present Day
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Students will learn how images have been used to persuade people in the past and present about a specific message or idea. They will research the 17th-century European Counter-Reformation and discuss how a sculpture of a saint might have been used as a persuasive image in a Catholic convent or monastery. Working in teams, students will then create sculptures commissioned by "patrons" and write press releases to promote their creations.

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Arts Education
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Sculpting a Modern Hero
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Students will examine the sculpture of the Greek hero Herakles (Hercules to the Romans) and discuss what it means to be a hero in ancient Greece and today. They will then choose a modern hero and create a sculpture that expresses the hero's identity and attributes.

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Arts Education
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Sculptural Space/s
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Students discuss the unique considerations that artists creating site-specific outdoor sculpture have to take into account when planning their work. They then choose sites and create models for their own site-specific works. Finally, they create proposals to present to potential patrons - such as school administrators or grant committees.

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Arts Education
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Shapes & Grapes: Create Poetry Using Still Lifes
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Students generate new vocabulary by discussing descriptive words, or adjectives, and the names of shapes they see in a still life painting. Inspired by an object in the painting, students then use their new vocabulary to create a shape poem.

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Arts Education
Language Education
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Diagram/Illustration
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018
Shaping Ideas: Symbolism in Sculpture -- Lesson 1
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This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. Students consider the ways that sculptors have represented concepts and ideals as symbolic forms in three dimensions. They compare historical examples to those in contemporary culture, and begin sketching designs for their own symbolic sculpture.

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Arts Education
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Date Added:
10/18/2018
Shaping Ideas: Symbolism in Sculpture -- Lesson 2
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This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students use criteria developed in class to evaluate which of their own sketches would make the best symbolic sculpture. They choose a final design, techniques and materials, and create sculptures based on their designs.

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Arts Education
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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Date Added:
10/18/2018
Shaping Ideas: Symbolism in Sculpture -- Lesson 3
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This lesson is part of a sequential unit. Students participate in a class critique of the symbolic sculptures they created. They critique the work of their peers by responding to questions about the symbolic content and applying criteria for sculpture developed in Lesson 1.

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Arts Education
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
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Provider:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Provider Set:
Getty Education
Date Added:
10/18/2018