Laurie Spigel's
Art History Class on Clay Sculpture

We examined the work of Henry Moore, including his small maquettes which were models for his larger pieces. We also looked at the work of Constantin Brâncuşi and Alberto Giacometti. Students used Model Magic, which was lighter and easier to handle than regular clay. They worked with white clay and colored clay.
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Modern Art History Syllabus

	Description	Activity
1.	Author Emile Zola and Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet	Watercolor Painting
2.	Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Toulouse-Lautrec.	Colored Pastels
3.	Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh	Impasto Painting, thickened tempera with sand
4.	Georges Seurat, Paul Signac	Pointillism — dot paintings with markers
5.	Camille Pissaro, Paul Cézanne, techniques that led to Cubism	Pastels and oil pastels
6.	Pablo Picasso, Georges Braques, Juan Gris, Cubism	Cubism: Collage and mixed media
7.	Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse	Papercuts and Collage
8.	Wassily Kandinsky and his theory of color and sound	Improvisational painting to music using watercolors
9.	Paul Klee	Colored pencils and markers
10.	Dada — Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and others.	Dadaist portrait collages
11.	Surrealism — Yves Tanguy, Marcel Jean, and Salvador Dali.	Surrealism
12.	Surrealist collages — Giorgio de Chirico and Rene Magritte	Surrealist collages
13.	Surrealism and symbolism — Joan Miró	Surrealism and symbolism
14.	Alexander Calder	Wire sculpture
15.	Henry Moore	Clay sculpture
16a.	Louise Nevelson	Stabiles
16b.	Louise Nevelson	Found object sculpture
	Romare Bearden	Collages