FXUA Saturday Museum Class National Gallery of Art (East Wing)

Welcome and Introduction Thank you all for participating in today's virtual-class. In today's lesson, we will be navigating through the various exhibits and factors within Washington DC's National Gallery of Art (East Wing). Finally, I highly recommend using a laptop computer and NOT your cell phone to complete these activities.Your class "textbook" can be found here: will also need to join my EdPuzzle Class here by click on this link: IF YOU DON'T TYPE YOUR NAME IT WON'T RECORD YOUR SCORES! EdPuzzle: East Wing Exhibit on American Art (1900-1950) Be sure you are signed in correctly and you complete this EdPuzzle accordingly. Directions: Please write your full name and email address below.Example: Joe Thompson ([email protected]) According to your knowledge, what meanings can a painting represent? Directions: This is an open-ended questions. In a paragraph format, please respond to the question(s) to the best of your ability. How much do you know about modern art? In what ways do you think that modern art is different from other types of art from a different time period (e.g. the Renaissance)? Directions: This is an open-ended questions. In a paragraph format, please respond to the question(s) to the best of your ability. Article Matching Vocabulary Article: Read the following article about the Nabis while focusing on the vocabulary works below. After reading the article, match the terms to the correct definition. essentially (1) absolutely necessary; indispensable: (2) pertaining to or constituting the essence of a thing. rally (1) to bring into order again; gather and organize (2) to draw or call people together for a common action or effort movement (1) act (2) process (3) involving a direction symbolist a person versed in the study or interpretation of symbols intimate associated in close personal relations: Matching Activity (...continued...) wry (adjective) produced by a distortion or lopsidedness of the facial features interior (adjective) being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center seamstress a woman whose occupation is sewing. dense having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: American Painter, Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1936) Directions: Watch the video above displaying many of the works from Patrick Henry Bruce. You will then have an open-ended question after the video. Using your own words, describe the style of painting, the background, objects, colors, figures and their facial expressions found in the video. If you need extra assistance, you may use this PDF to guide you: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. East Building Permanent Collection Robert Henri quote from his book, "The Art Spirit" “There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.” Within the John Hay Whitney Collection, a 1907 painting by George Bellows (1882-1925) entitledClub Night is depicting which popular sport? boxing baseball American football wrestling Vocabulary from American Art (1900-1950) depict (verb) to represent by or as if by a picture typify (verb) to represent in typical fashion : to constitute a typical mark or instance of prominence (noun) the quality, state, or fact of being conspicuous (elevation mayhem (noun) needless or willful damage or violence unregulated (adjective) disorder, not controlled Which of Henri's students' work did you prefer more: Bellows or Hopper? Please describe why... Analyze Bellows'Forty-two Kids Now that you have studied Bellows' work, what can you tell someone about the painting above?