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Created: August 1, 2002
Latest Update: August 1, 2002
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takata@uwp.edu

Looking Deeply at
Frank Stella's Jarama II

Teaching Essay Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, August 2002.
"Fair use" encouraged.

This teaching module is based on Jarama II.

1. Preparatory readings for module.

   • Jarama II

2. Notes on and analysis of readings.

   • See the comments provided by the National Gallery of Art as you go through the files on Jarama II,

3. Discussion questions.

   1. Do you like Jarama II?
   2. Would you like to have a version of it in your classroom? How would it make the room feel?
   3. Does art work become part of our social context?
   4. Why do you suppose hospitals have begun to display art in their hallways, if they can afford it?
   5. Why do you suppolse that college classrooms, at least in my experience, don't have art in them?

4. Experiential activities related to module.

   1. Traffic in the City Has traffic ever looked so neat to you when your're driving? How might Frank Stella put traffic into a painting or sculpture?
   2. Activity based on Stella's Jarman II The museum designates these activities for kids. Can you figure out why creative activities with art are granted lower status than commercial art or fine art? "Ain't I art, too?" to paraphrase Sojourner Truth.

5. Self-test questions related to module.

   True or False? And explain briefly why it's true or false. (25 words or less)

6. Conceptual linking we had in mind as we prepared the module.

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