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Lesson One: Revolutions in Painting
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- Article
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- Beginner
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- Free
About this lesson
MoMA's classroom lesson on Pollock, Kline and Frankenthaler. Activities include taping out the full scale of a Pollock canvas and building a 'line dictionary', where students draw lines for words such as frenetic or calm and classmates interpret them. Also covers critique writing and research on Krasner and Motherwell.
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