La Vida Retira

Museum of the African Diaspora - Education Department

Curriculum Resource Guide
BY DEMETRIE BROXTON - EDUCATION PROGRAM MANAGER AND HENRY S. FRANCISCO & SARAH LOYD – EDUCATION PROGRAM ASSOCIATES

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Contents
How To Use This Guide When Visiting MoAD About the Exhibition ……… 3 ………………………………….. 4

Fact Sheet: Speaking ofRichard Mayhew ………………. 6 Questions To Use While At MoAD ………………….. 7 ….………….. 8

Reflection Questions – After Your Visit

Images ......................................................................................... 9 Palette: From landscape to Cityscape……………..…..... 15 “I Like This One” .......................................………………... 20 Realism to Abstraction.………………............................. 21 Place, Power & Race ..…………………........................… 26 Timeline of Historical Events ...................................................36 Building a Class Website ……………….……………… 39 California State Standards Addressed ……………...….. 40

Cover Art: Untitled, 2000

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How to Use This Guide When Visiting MoAD
The FactSheet, Question Sheet, and Lesson Plans should be used to prepare students for a focused museum visit. MoAD group tours can be used to introduce students to the exhibition and related MoAD core exhibitions. The Fact Sheet can be used to give students a more knowledgeable approach to the subject matter of the exhibition that will in turn help students look more carefully at the photographs found in theexhibition. Speaking of Richard Mayhew introduces students to some of the art and historical movements which inspired the work of Richard Mayhew. With this information, students can identify some of the shifts in style present in the work of Mayhew throughout this exhibition and the history behind these styles. The Timeline of Historical Events may be used as a tool to place moments in the lifeof Richard Mayhew into historical perspective along with other subjects in your existing classroom curriculum. While visiting MoAD, give each of your students a copy of the Questions To Use While At MoAD to further engage them in the context of the exhibition. Younger students can draw pictures in lieu of words. Be sure to have your students answer the Reflection Questions as soon as possible afteryour visit to the Museum. These are designed to further students understanding and awareness of what they have seen. You may also opt to choose either of the grade level specific projects to complete before (recommended) or after your Museum visit. Again, these can be used as they appear or modified to accommodate other age groups.

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About the Exhibition
MoAD proudly presents Richard Mayhew Painter Richard Mayhew is quite simply one of America’s most important abstract landscape artists of
the twentieth century. Mayhew infuses his Barbizon-style landscapes with bright, often psychedelic, colors creating a mysterious world of vivid trees, meadows, creeks, and mountains. He masterfully follows and breaks therules of color theory to engage and manipulate viewers’ encounters with his fantasy environments. Mayhew’s signature fiery vistas and cool misty fields evoke an emotional engagement from his viewers that has kept him at the forefront of landscape painting in America for the past fifty years. His paintings are found in the collections of the nation’s most prestigious museums including theMetropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and The National Academy of Design. The Art of Richard Mayhew is a retrospective of Richard Mayhew’s paintings, prints, and illustrations. It traces his life trajectory beginning with his years as a young teenager watching summer...