Objectives:

As a result of this activity, students will be able to:

1. understand how Rivera used facial expression and posture to tell us more about people and their emotions.
   
2. understand how Rivera used objects to give information about people.
   
3. understand how Rivera used elements of realism and abstraction to portray people in Detroit Industry.
   
4. understand the sequential process of making a collagraph print.
   
5. understand that each person may view a work of art differently.
   

Standards:

Michigan Curriculum Framework: Content Standards and Benchmarks: Visual Arts

Content Standard No. 4
All students will understand, analyze, and describe the arts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts.

Analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas, and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art.

Excerpted from: Arts Education Content Standards and Benchmarks: Visual Arts (Michigan Department of Education, 1996).

For more information see The Michigan Curriculum Framework.