Five Passions in World Art Multicultural Curriculum Handbook which their Education Department produced. The handbook includes 15 posters and transparencies. It suggests that we can see connections in seemingly diverse works of art, which can evoke similar emotions in us. Some of the works, in fact, are abstract, and don't tell a story at all. But even for those that do, curator J. Carter Brown's point is as much about the colors, shapes and textures of this art as the fact that the picture may show a person being kissed, or beheaded.
Activity Have the students choose one work of art to share with each other.
Before they present the work, in any medium, have them write down on a slip of paper the emotion this art makes them feel. Or perhaps they can write what it made them feel the first time they encountered it. Have each person in the class write a paragraph about how they felt when the student presented the art. At an art exhibition, the display of the works of art themselves can lead the viewer to feel certain emotions. An added feature of the exhibition was a music tape, which added another artistic element to the mix, as viewers moved from work to work.