Verso.November Birthdays 1--William Merritt Chase, 1849 2--Jean-Baptiste Chardin, 1699 3--Lois Mailou Jones, 1905 7--Francisco de Zurbaran, 1598 8--Charles Demuth, 1883 11--Paul Signac, 1863 12--Auguste Rodin, 1840 14--John Steuart Curry, 1897 15--Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887 17--Rene Magritte, 1898 23--Jose Clementa Orozco, 1883 24--Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864 26--George Segal, 1924 29--James Rosenquist, 1933 30--Gordon Parks, 1912 Inspirational Poster for Faculty Room "Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings. They did it by killing all those who opposed them." #1 Reason for Team Teaching Team teaching means never having to take all the blame for poor performance yourself. For Starters If you could walk into any painting and actually experience the moment it depicts, which painting would you choose? --from The Conversation Piece Revisionist re·vi·sion·ism n. 1. Advocacy of the revision of an accepted, usually long-standing view, theory, or doctrine, especially a revision of historical events and movements. 2. Art History A middle school student's response to an essay question on Greek art Greek art, works of art produced in the Aegean basin, a center of artistic activity from very early times (see Aegean civilization). This article covers the art of ancient Greece from its beginnings through the Hellenistic period. : "The Greeks were a highly sculptured people. Without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth. In the Olympic games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. , Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw the Java." Where in The World? Can you match these famous art galleries with the cities in which they are located? Museums: 1. The Uffizi Gallery Uffizi Gallery Art museum in Florence, housing the world's finest collection of Italian Renaissance painting. The core collection derives from the Medici family of Tuscany. , 2. Vatican Pinacoteca, 3. Peggy Guggenheim Peggy Guggenheim (August 26, 1898 – December 23, 1979) was an American art collector. Born Marguerite Guggenheim to a wealthy New York City family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912 and the niece of Solomon R. Museum, 4. Rijksmuseum, 5. Alte Pinakothek, 6. The Hermitage, 7. Tate Gallery, 8. Kunsthistorisches Museum, 9. The Prado Museum, 10. The Louvre Louvre (l  `vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent.
Cities: a) Amsterdam, b) Paris, c) St. Petersburg, d) Venice, e) Madrid, f) Munich, g) Vienna, h) London, i) Rome, j) Florence answers--1 (j), 2 (i), 3 (d), 4 (a), 5 (f) 6 (c), 7 (h), 8 (g), 9 (e), 10 (b) |
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