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Three panels depict a woodland scene. The panels include humans, animals, and plants. The panels are wood and gold.

Organ Screen

Music, Art, Nature, and Storytelling

Black and brown people wearing red, yellow, and white drape their bodies over the branches of a large tree.

Apariciones/Apparitions

"The body of the dancers, or phantoms, become sources of knowledge, and their gaze holds the viewer accountable, something that is too often missing from history and art; holding space in historically white spaces in ways that they have never been inhabited before.” -Carolina Caycedo, artist

Painting with a reddish mountain in the background, hills in the midground, and trees and water in the foreground.

Chimborazo

How can artists express their understandings of the natural world through composite landscape paintings?

Painting of a valley with greenery in the valley basin and high vertical mountains. A waterfall is visible on one of the mountain faces.

Yosemite

Natural Beauty and National Identity: One Artist’s Impact

Plant with bright green leaves growing close to the ground.

Fern

Use the elements of art to guide you as you look closely at ferns, and explore how different artists have been inspired by ferns.

A field of orange lilies.

Lily

Use the elements of art to guide you as you look closely at lilies and explore how different artists have been inspired by lilies.

A pink lotus flower with fish swimming in the background.

Lotus

Use the elements of art to guide you as you look closely at lotuses and explore how different artists have been inspired by lotuses.

Lamp with rounded metal decorative leaves at the base and eighteen orange glass bulb covers in the shape of lily flowers.

Tiffany Glass

Tiffany’s Glassworks: Light, Color, Change, and Innovation

Nature as Artistic Inspiration

How are artists inspired by nature? How do artists combine observation and imagination to create artwork?

Litografía en color a partir de una placa de aluminio que muestra varios elementos, incluidas imágenes rotas de mujeres negras, un pájaro, una pluma, una flor, un sol de papel y un tapetito de encaje. La escritura a mano en la parte inferior dice en inglés: Conservar para los viejos recuerdos.

Actividad: Piezas de tí

Crea tu propia obra de arte inspirada en la obra de Betye Saar, Fragments (Fragmentos).