Hi, I haven’t done a Wordless Wednesday in forever! What do you think of the Wordless Wednesday series? Do you like them? Not? Tell me in the comments. I’m curious. 🙂 I like them because it gives me a chance to quickly introduce some cool art to you without the pressure of doing a lot…
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Wordless Wednesday: Remojadas, Battered Warrior Figure
Today’s Wordless Wednesday is a really cool artwork. Look at it. Click here for more views of this sculpture. Awesome, yes? I know absolutely nothing about this other than when and where it is from. Remojadas was a culture near Veracruz, Mexico from around 100 to 800 C.E. Very little is known about this culture,…
Wordless Wednesday: William Blake, Pity, 1795
I <3 William Blake. He is both a poet and an artist from the Romantic age in the late 1700s and early 1800s which is one of my favorite time periods in art history. Through their creative endeavors, Romantic artists celebrated emotion, passion, imagination, nature, literature, art, and more. I find Romantic art to be…
Wordless Wednesday: Great Indian Fruit Bat
Today’s Wordless Wednesday is a creepy, yet adorable fruit bat created in the late 1700s in Calcutta, India. Take a look. I find this watercolor painting delightful and intriguing. I’m not exactly sure why. This was made as a part of an initiative by the chief justice of Bengal and his wife to document all…
Wordless Wednesday: Beatriz Milhazes’ The Beach
Today’s Wordless Wednesday is one I came super close to featuring in November in my Art Around the World in 30 Days series, but it didn’t make the cut, because I wanted more architecture. I really love this painting. It’s just lovely and fun and different. You don’t see a lot of paintings that are…
Wordless Wednesday: Ladder for Booker T. Washington
It’s Wordless Wednesday again where I quickly show you some super cool art. Today I’ve got Ladder for Booker T. Washington by Martin Puryear. This is at one of the art museums in my area (The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth), and you just need to see it in person to get the full…
Wordless Wednesday: Tintoretto’s The Last Supper
Okay, I could do a whole looooong post on this painting, but today, I will just whet your appetite with a Wordless Wednesday and come back at a later date to talk about it more. Take a look. Isn’t it just awesome? This painting is from the Late Renaissance in Venice. The strong diagonal lines,…
Wordless Wednesday: Brauner’s Prelude to a Civilization
I saw today’s Wordless Wednesday artwork for the first time when I went to NYC over the summer. I snapped a picture of the label to remember to look it up and write about it later. This is Prelude to a Civilization by Victor Brauner. Sorry for the small thumbnail; click the image to view…
Wordless Wednesday: Gustav Klimt’s the Three Ages of Woman
It’s Wordless Wednesday again, and it’s time for me to share with you a quick artwork that I think is great. I discovered today’s artwork when I was finding artworks for my 25 Favorite Madonnas post before Christmas. This artwork is breathtakingly beautiful. It’s a mother and child, and I believe I will be buying…
Wordless Wednesday: Kuba Mask
I’m back for Wordless Wednesday, where I find amazing art and show it to you! I like this series, because there is just so much art out there, and I couldn’t cover it in a lifetime on the blog if I tried. This series allows me to show you something quickly as a nice, easy…
Wordless Wednesday: “Discrimination is Not Protection”
When I wrote my Civil Rights Movement art article on Monday, I had A LOT of other choices selected, many of which I wrote about and then removed for some reason or another. It was so hard to narrow it down as much of the art was so powerful and moving. This artwork Lorna Simpson…
Wordless Wednesday: Jester with a Lute by Frans Hals
Hello! I am back with Wordless Wednesday where I share with you some artworks that I love. Today, I’ve got an artwork that I have always loved. There is something about this painting that just makes me smile. Frans Hals is a portrait painter from the Dutch “Golden Age.” (Think the same time period as…
Wordless Wednesday: Hellenistic Bronze Grotesque
There is just so much art out in the world, and I want you to see it all! But, I don’t have the time to write about it all. I’m going to start sharing some random artworks that I like every Wednesday for an art history-fied Wordless Wednesday! I am going to try not to…
Teaching the Past, Creating the Future: Black History Month Art Lessons
Inside: A collection of posts and resources with artworks by black artists, civil rights art, African art, art projects, book suggestions, and more to teach Black History art lessons. When students are exposed to a variety of works of art, they learn about the world and themselves. Children deserve to see the wide variety of…
Dreams and Dots: Australian Aboriginal Art for Kids
Inside: Learn about the intriguing culture and religion of the Australian Aboriginal people with this Australian Aboriginal art for kids lesson plan and project. I used to be terrified of Australian Aboriginal art and culture. Not terrified of the culture itself–just of teaching it. I never felt like I fully understood it no matter what I…
Scarred for Life: Using Art to Analyze the Small Moments that Define Us
Inside: An exploration of Tracey Moffatt artwork that looks at the moments that scar us, including discussion questions and classroom activities tailored to middle and high school students. There are moments that stay with us, both good and bad. Sometimes they are big moments that we know are coming, prepare for, and catalog in our…
Native American Indian Shield Art Lesson and Activity
Inside: Explore this Native American Indian shield from the Crow Nation with your students and then have students explore the concept further with the related Native American art activity! I’m focusing on Native American art this month, and I have already written about the Mound Builders and the Northwest Coast Indians. Today’s Artwork of the…
Islamic Art for Kids: Calligraphy Art Project inspired by the Islamic Tughra
Inside: In this Islamic art for kids lesson, your students will learn the basics of the Islam religion, the characteristics of Islamic art and architecture, study the ottoman tugra, and create a calligraphic design of their own inspired by an Islamic tughra. Have you ever had a moment in your teaching that just took your…
Ode to a Grecian Urn: Colorful Scratch-Art Project
I teach at a classical school, and my sixth graders are studying Ancient Greece. I planned a multi-step project – within the context of a larger lesson on Greek art from this time period – to create Greek amphora scratch-art. We first did a general lesson on Greece where we learned about their architecture and sculpture….
The Olympic Art Competitions from 1912-1948 — Discussions and Activities
When I was in high school, there was a pivotal moment at the end of my freshman year of high school: do I continue with sports or do I follow my interest in the arts? Ultimately, I choose the arts because the competitiveness of high school basketball was a little too much for me to…
