Changing Times, Changing Places:

Art Reflects Industrialization
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The  Arts Connection:

Emergence of Modern and Contemporary Art*

Objective:

To look at and understand certain key concepts of modern and or contemporary art, through the examination of a select number of works that are a part of the permanent collection of the Guggenheim museum.

Related subject areas:

Cross-curriculum Art, Social Studies and English

Key concepts:

• The art of the Avant-Garde - 1860-1960 - is defined as new ways to look forward, to engage the future, and to challenge the present.

• Art can be a form of communication of the times

• The lives a large and growing number 19th century women were changed throughout the industrial revolution.

• Artists responded to the industrial revolution by depicting the new urban realities

• Paris was a cultural Mecca of the 19th century.

Activities:

Activity 1         Activity 2          Activity 3       

* This lesson was created by Teacher S. Dimouplos.