Observation and Imagination School Tour

Observation and Imagination School Tour

Designed for kindergarten through 8th grade, the Observation and Imagination school tour explores the artist’s process. Students learn how artists observe the world and the way that imagination transforms those observations into works of art. Exposure to a variety of artists gives students confidence in their own abilities to understand and interpret the world around them.

This tour typically includes Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series, Pierre-Auguste Renoir's The Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Elizabeth Murray’s The Sun and The Moon.

Gallery activities:
Students may write poetry or letters, draw, create a narrative series, or play flash-card and "I spy" games.

Curriculum connections:
• Language arts: oral and written, vocabulary, symbols, tone
• Social studies: migration, history
• Visual arts: genre, color, mood, perspective

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Elizabeth Murray, The Sun and the Moon, 2005. © Elizabeth Murray, courtesy Pace/Wildenstein, New York.

Pierre Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-81.

©2012 The Phillips Collection.

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