text: Education: Grade(s) 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Adult Learners
  1. Define and discuss realistic and abstract art.
  2. Introduce mid to late 20th century artists from The Cleveland Museum of Art collection such as Jackson Pollack, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close and others.
  3. Discuss media such as silk screening, painting, and sculpture as well as the artists' point of view towards their subject.
  4. Optional drawing interactivity in which students choose elements of a style represented by one of the videoconference's featured artists.
  Students will be able to discuss and analyze the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
  Students will learn that there are diverse ways of expressing creativity through different media, moods, imagery and styles, including figurative and abstract.
  Students will learn that a contemporary painting is the product of a series of thoughtful, artistic decisions, even if it appears spontaneous or abstract.