Students will discuss the style and function of an 18th-century compound microscope and its case and then design their own modern scientific or technological instrument.
Students will identify the colors, animals, animals' actions, and natural and manmade items depicted on a decorative clock made in the 1700s. They will memorize a song, practice telling time, and create their own decorated clock.
Students will examine artworks, research literature, and create study drawings and a 3-D model for a monument to a literary figure.
Students will examine Charles-Antoine Coypel's "Self-Portrait" and understand what he shows in this work.
This art history video discussion examines Rene Magritte's "The Treachery of Images" (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), 1929 (LACMA).
This art history video discussion examines Edouard Manet's "Corner of a Cafe-Concert", 1878-80 (National Gallery, London).
This art history video discussion examines Edouard Manet's "Emile Zola" 1868, oil on canvas (Musee d'Orsay, Paris). This portrait was painted in appreciation for the support Zola gave to Manet in his 1866 essay in La Revue du XXe siecle and during Manet's independent exhibition held along side the Universal Exposition in 1867.
This art history video discussion examines Edouard Manet's "In the Conservatory", 1878-1879, oil on canvas (Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).
This art history video discussion examines Edouard Manet's "Le Dejeuner Sur L'herbe" (Luncheon on the Grass), oil on canvas, 1863 (Musee d'Orsay, Paris).
This art history video discussion examines Edouard Manet's "The Balcony", 1868-69, oil on canvas, (Musee d'Orsay, Paris). The three principal figures depicted are each a friend of the artist. From left to right they are: the painters Berthe Morisot and Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet, and Fanny Claus, a violinist. Some have suggested that the fourth figure, barely visible in the shadows, is the young Leon Leenhoff, the son of Manet's wife.
This art history video discussion examines Henri Matisse's "Luxe, calme et volupte", 1904, oil on canvas, 37 x 46 inches (Musee d'Orsay, Paris). Painted while the artist stayed with the pointillist painter, Signac, at his home in Saint-Tropez on the Cote d'Azur. Matisse's title comes from Charles Baudelaire's poem, L'invitation au voyage (Invitation To A Voyage) from his collection, The Flowers of Evil. Luxe, calme et volupte translates just as it sounds in English, Luxury, calm, and voluptuous(ness).
This art history video discussion examines Henri Matisse's "The Piano Lesson", 1916 (The Museum of Modern Art).
This art history video discussion looks at Henri Matisse's "The Red Studio", oil on canvas, 1911 (MoMA).
This art history video discussion examines Jean-Francois Millet's "L'Angelus", ca. 1857-1859, oil on canvas (Musee d'Orsay, Paris).
This art history video discussion looks at Jean-Francois Millet's "The Gleaners", 1857, oil on canvas, (Musee d'Orsay, Paris).
This art history video discussion looks at Claude Monet's "Cliff Walk at Pourville" 1882, oil on canvas, 26-1/8 x 32-7/16 inches / 66.5 x 82.3 cm (Art Institute of Chicago).
This art history video discussion looks at Claude Monet's "Poplars", 1891, oil on canvas (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Claude Monet painted more than 30 canvases depicting Rouen cathedral between 1892 and 1894. This video discusses the following four paintings in the collection of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris: "Rouen Cathedra"l (The Portal, Grey Weather), 1894, oil on canvas; "Rouen Cathedral" (The Portal and the Tour d'Albane, Morning Effect), 1894, oil on canvas; Rouen Cathedral (The Portal, Harmony in Blue), 1894; and "Rouen Cathedral (The Portal and the Tour d'Albane in the Sunlight)", 1894, oil on canvas.
This art history video discussion looks at Claude Monet's "The Argenteuil Bridge", 1874, oil on canvas, 60.5 x 80 cm (Musee d'Orsay, Paris). Please note that there is significant background chatter in this video, the Musee d'Orsay is happily a very busy museum and this painting is hung in a relatively small room.
This art history video discussion looks at Claude Monet's "Les Nympheas (The Water Lilies)", suite of paintings on permanent exhibition at the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris. Room 1: "Morning", oil on two canvas panels c. 1918-26; "Clouds", oil on three canvas panels c. 1918-26; "Green Highlights", oil on two canvas panels c. 1918-26; and Sunset, oil on canvas c. 1918-26. Room 2: "Reflection of Trees", oil on two canvas panels 1918-26; "The Morning Light", the willows, oil on three canvas panels c. 1918-26; "The Morning Willows" oil on three canvas panels c. 1918-26; "The Two Willows", oil on four canvas panels c. 1918-26.