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Lines of Inquiry
At the turn of the 20th century, German poet Rainer Maria Rilke exchanged letters with an amateur poet, Franz Kappus, sharing a sentiment that nicely frames the goals for an inquiry-based approach to...
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Planning an Exhibition Visit
Visiting an exhibition is a fantastic way for students to experience the power of art in person, not on a screen and Learn to Connect to the Art-World. The right exhibition may provide the spark to drive...
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Art Trips
This section looks at how to get the most out of taking students to look at art and explores the kinds of exhibitions, galleries and venues to help you plan your trip. There are also questions and activities...
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Slow Art Viewing
This page reflects on how we view and consume art, with an invitation and activities to help us slow down and savor what we are looking at. We are living at a time when contemporary art draws enormous...
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Four Ways of Looking at Art
This is a framework for guided looking when taking students to a museum collection or exhibition. It is an annotated version of a resource created by Tate Education called Ways of Looking. After trying...
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Artist and Audience
Visiting an exhibition without any prior gathering of information is a very different experience from visiting the same show informed by some background research (or at least reading the exhibition captions)....
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Virtual Art Viewing
When we are unable to travel or visit exhibitions locally, we can turn to the web for some high quality images, beautifully presented and complete with supporting texts and background information. It...
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Exhibition Tasks
Museum and gallery visits help generate meaningful work Field trips and exhibition visits can be a rich source of inspiration and materials for the required Course Components but an art viewing trip can...
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ToK and Visual Arts
Art itself offers many deeply provocative questions that an inquiring mind will find stimulating and mind-expanding. Some students say that it is their TOK class that got them interested in the concepts...
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Shock Factor
British Artist Marc Quinn has created a series of controversial self portraits, making casts of his own head and using his own frozen blood. Every 5 years, Since 1991, he recreates another-version to...