Looking at diverse artwork, students learn how art can appeal to our senses, our spirit, our intellect, our emotions, and our cultural heritage. Docents will tailor your tour to young adults, providing relevant historical detail and challenging students to think critically about what they see. This tour can accommodate your advance request to see art from a specific culture or time period. Kaleidoscope III Students explore design principles such as unity, proportion, and scale in works from various times and places. Inquiry and active discussion help students analyze how artists apply these principles to make successful artworks.
Students encounter, in portraits and other works, notable people from history and art.
Students also consider whether artistic innovation is an achievement in itself. How Art Reaches Us Through this introduction to aesthetics, students think critically about their own preferences in art and to understand six important ways art appeals to us. Through inquiry-based discussion, students learn how art may excite our senses, awaken memory, appeal to beliefs, evoke awe, inspire curiosity, or serve a ritual function. Students are challenged to evaluate their own tastes in light of these principles.