3.3 Teaching with Themes: Art & Identity

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Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes

102 個評分

The Museum of Modern Art

Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes

102 個評分

This course is designed to help build critical skills that support theme-based teaching practices and build confidence in incorporating modern and contemporary art into interdisciplinary lesson plans. By addressing themes and questions that arise in relation to modern and contemporary art, the course will help you to think creatively about links to your curriculum and the ways that you can tap into students’ knowledge and life experience. In this course, you will explore four themes that educators at The Museum of Modern Art use frequently in their teaching: Places & Spaces, Art & Identity, Transforming Everyday Objects, and Art & Society. Through videos, slideshows, and a variety of resources, readings, and activities, you will explore the content and context of works of art in MoMA’s collection. Learners will… - Explore works of modern and contemporary art through a variety of themes that relate to classroom content and student experience. - Hear directly from artists about their ideas and processes. - Learn about the ways that a thematic approach supports interdisciplinary teaching and learning. - Gain exposure to a range of digital resources available for teaching with themes and incorporating content around works of art into your classroom.

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Module 3: Art & Identity

Discover some of the ways artists create works of art to express, explore, and question identity. Gain strategies for using works of art to approach the topic of identity with students.

3.2 Art & Identity4:36

3.3 Teaching with Themes: Art & Identity3:14

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Lisa Mazzola
Assistant Director, School and Teacher Programs
Department of Education

Identity is a theme that we like to teach here at MoMA because it's

something that students can relate to.

It's something that artists have explored for many years.

Identity is about who we are, about how we see ourselves in the world.

It's something that's incredibly complex yet

it's something we can all relate to and

it's something that can be very public, but it can also be deeply personal.

Once I know that I want to teach with the theme of identity,

I'll come up with a sub-theme or an essential question.

The sub-theme or the essential question is just a way for me to refine the focus for

the lesson and for the experience with the students.

There's a lot of different ways that I could go.

I might want to look at how artists represent sense of self through

self-portraiture.

How an artist represents others through portraiture.

I could also look at individual versus group identity.

I could look at ways that artists use representational and

non-representational ways to explore identity.

It's a rich theme so

it's really important that I come up with a focus that will then allow me to pick

artworks that really articulate the ideas that I want to hit with the students.

One of the artworks that I like to apply the theme of identity to

in our collection is Gold Marilyn by Andy Warhol.

When you bring students to this artwork,

it's something that they often recognize right away.

But they often have a lot of questions about the way that Andy Warhol has

chosen to represent her.

He chose to do something really specific, which is he's got this very iconic,

well-known, public image of her as the subject, yet

it's sort of a small portion of this very large canvas.

She's sort of floating in this incredibly brilliant gold background.

This is an artwork that he created shortly after she died.

So in creating this artwork, he's really given us this very angelic view of her

at a time where most people were learning about these other struggles that she had.

So I think it really exemplifies this idea of the struggle between public and

private and how you can represent that.

Pablo Picasso's, Girl Before Mirror, is another artwork that I like to teach with,

with the theme of identity.

In this artwork, he's showing us a person, someone he knew well, a woman,

named, Marie Therese.

But, he's also showing us this representation of her,

this reflection of her in the mirror.

And surrounding her is this very specific background that often

was a pattern that he used to represent his presence in the work of art.

So now knowing his relationship with this subject, this inclusion of him in this

background, and this reflection of her, the viewer is really left with a lot of

questions which I think is one of the best things about a work of art like this.

Because it's always great to really look deeply and

really consider these things, and then kind of comeback to ourselves and

think about the way we perceive ourselves in the world.

Identity is a great topic to explore with your students and I think

it's an opportunity to really connect with them on a deeply personal level.

So, don't be afraid to have certain conversations.

Just have fun with it and trust your instincts.

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