full name escapes me–Barbara from Buffalo Grove HS?
that there is much to be taught from art without necessarily teaching art/art history directly. For example: 1. Use famous paintings such as Picasso’s Mother and Child, or many of Rivera’s and Kahlo’s works, or Juan Gris and Picasso cubist pieces to teach body parts. Instead of using boring, stick figure transparencies, use the web to print out transparencies of these paintings and use them instead. After a few minutes, students ask and express interest in the works, rather than the teacher saying “We’re going to study art now.” 2. Using transparencies or posters that have people in them, have students write a conversation between the people in the painting. Consider the elements that could be introduced using Rivera’s politically charged murals, for example. One of the proudest moments of my career was when I took students on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago and two students were arguing their interpretations of a painting **IN SPANISH** so strongly that the guard asked th
