Student Work: Living Paintings

My Humanities final is hands-down without-a-doubt my favorite assignment ever.

Instead of formally assessing my students with a cumulative final,

I give them the opportunity to bring a masterpiece {that we have studied} to life.

In addition to recreating the masterpiece,

each group selects a narrator to provide an in-depth analysis of the piece.

Here are some of my favorites:

Michelangelo's Pieta

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Mantegna's Lamentations of Christ

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Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

Teaching Inspriation

This video is so beautiful.

{I always wished I were a ballerina.}

It will be perfect to introduce my dance unit in Humanities.

Hope you enjoy!

Student Work: Living Painting

And here is the Humanities Final Project...

Students were asked to recreate their favorite masterpiece we studied this year.

In groups, students designed the setting  & costumes

and prepared a 5 minute narration to accompany the performance.

I didn't do this project last year, 

so this was my first time.

I was really nervous about how it would turn out

but I am overjoyed with the results!

The Calling of St. Matthew
Caravaggio

The Scream
Edvard Munch

Las Meninas
Diego Velazquez

Creation of Man
Michelangelo

Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci

Venus of Willendorf

Judith Beheading Holofernes
Caravaggio

Gold Marilyn
Andy Warhol

Student Work: ModernismPostModernism

My Humanities classes just finished a unit on Modern and Post-Modern art.

This is by far my favorite unit of the year!!

The class was divided into ten groups.

Each group was assigned to research one of the following art movements:

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Cubism

Surrealism

Abstract Expressionism

Dadaism

Pop-Art

Hard-Edge Painting

Conceptualism

Found-Object Sculpture

Then they gave a 20-minute presentation on thier art movement to the whole class.

After the research and presentations were complete,

each group created an artwork in the style of their art movement.

{It is a great way to formally assess the students without giving them a written test.}

It is amazing how much they remember about each others' art movements

after watching them create the artwork in class.

Here are a few of my favorite "masterpieces":



Obama
Cubism
based on Picasso's work



Campbell's Soup
Pop Art
based on Andy Warhol's work

Ballerina
Impressionism
based on Edgar Degas' work

Rose
Surrealism
based on Rene Magritte's work

Clay Collage
Dadaism

Language
Conceptualism

Splatter
Abstract Expressionism
based on the Jackson Polluck's work

Flower Power
Pop Art
based on Andy Warhol's work

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Hard Edge
based on Frank Stella's work



One in Three Rulers
Conceptualism
based on Joseph Kosuth's work

Rocks
Post-Impressionism
based on the work of Paul Gauguin

Sorry the work is out of chronological order.

Once I uploaded the pictures,

it was really difficult to change the order.