Guide to MOMA/Grove Art Learning Resources
Designed by The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), these resources for educators provide an exploration into the history of modern art combining the museum's rich collection and articles in Grove Art Online. Grove Art Online is a useful tool for teachers and students researching artists, art historical movements, and art techniques. The educator’s guides are organized by traditional art historical categories which go beyond these parameters by exploring artistic developments and movements in conjunction with their social and historical context. Guides are informed by issues posed by the selected works in a variety of media (painting, sculpture, prints, photography, film, media, architecture, and design), but their organization and lesson topics are tailored to school curriculum with particular application to visual art, history, and language arts. Lessons are accompanied by writing, research, and art-making activities that encourage students to make connections between the visual arts and other disciplines.
Lessons from the guides on this site have been augmented with suggestions for further information including artist biographies, various art media, processes used as well as art movements and issues from Grove Art Online. In keeping with the focused exploration prompted by a series of objects, the suggested Grove articles have been limited to articles that are very closely related to the ideas in the lessons. Once in Grove, you are welcome to expand your investigation by pursuing more information on the artist or art historical movement discussed in the lessons. Information in Grove is broken down into helpful subcategories. You may choose to supplement the information in the MOMA lessons or ask your students to pursue their own further research based on the artists or ideas from the lessons.
Modern Art and Ideas
Unit 1: 1882-1900
- Lesson One: Painting Modern Life
- Lesson Two: Rise of the Modern City
- Lesson Three: Portraiture
- Lesson Four: Popular Culture
- Lesson Five: Landscape
Unit 2: 1893-1913
Unit 3: 1907-1914
- Lesson One: Painting Modern Life
- Lesson Two: Rise of the Modern World
- Lesson Three: Art and Movement
Unit 4: 1914-1928
- Lesson One: New Visions of the World
- Lesson Two: Constructing Things
- Lesson Three: Ideal Living
- Lesson Four: Ideal Objects
- Lesson Five: Ideal Performance
Unit 5: 1913-1936
- Lesson One: Transforming Everyday Objects
- Lesson Two: Revealing Process
- Lesson Three: Portraiture
- Lesson Four: Landscapes: Real and Imagined
Unit 6: Art Between the Wars
- Lesson One: Identity
- Lesson Two: Modern Movements
- Lesson Three: Action/Reaction: Art and Politics
- Lesson Four: Modern Landscapes
- Art Between the Wars: For Further consideration
Unit 7: 1950–1969
- Lesson One: Revolutions in Painting
- Lesson Two: Color and Environment
- Lesson Three: Transforming Everyday Objects
- Lesson Four: Art and Politics
- Lesson Five: Artist’s Choice: People
- 1950-1969: For Further Consideration
Unit 8: 1962–1974
- Lesson One: Serial Forms/Material Difference
- Lesson Two: Language Arts
- Lesson Three: Constructing Space
- Lesson Four: Public Interventions
- Lesson Five: Performance into Art
- 1962–1974: For Further Consideration
Photography: Picturing People
- Lesson One: Posed
- Lesson Two: Unposed
- Lesson Three: Politicians
- Lesson Four: Constructing Stories
- Lesson Five: The Photographic Record
- Photography: For Further Consideration
Artist’s Work/Artist’s Voice: Louis I. Kahn
- Lesson One: What is Architecture?
- Lesson Two: The Power of Drawing
- Lesson Three: The Process of Design
- Lesson Four: Form and Function
- Lesson Five: The Spirituality of Matter
- Lesson Six: Designs for Urban Life
- Louis I. Kahn: For Further Consideration
