Art-Making Activity: Self-Portrait Collage
Create a self-portrait on paper from collaged materials using your hand as a representation of your body. Read More
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Object Lesson: America by Will Ryman
Will Ryman’s large-scale sculpture America is a reflection on the industries and economies that built the United States over the past few centuries. America is made of many materials, each of which have been carefully selected and arranged by Ryman to reflect the legacy of capitalism in this nation. Read More
Object Lesson: The Window of My Studio by Josef Sudek
In 1940, Josef Sudek began his best-known series of photographs, a body of images of or through his studio window in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Read More
Object Lesson: Studio Window, West 56th Street, New York by Leslie Gill
Photographs of and through windows have remained popular throughout the history of photography. In the early years, the presence of windows was driven by necessity: photography in its infancy required great amounts of light, and windows obliged. Read More
Object Lesson: Bruynzeel Boys’ Bedroom by Vilmos Huszár and Piet Klaarhamer
Photography has often been employed in the service of recording exceptional spaces, but a photograph always more or less distorts the space it is supposed to record. The distortion may enhance the true nature of the interior or it may severely misrepresent it. Read More