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Became A Teacher Of Painting: The teacher then helped each individual and each group to get started. In one corner of the room two boys were building a dock for the boats several others were painting. Two were painting scenery for the play which they were going to give for the kindergarten. Others were playing house in the doll corner, and still others were experimenting with a magnet in the science corner. The teacher walked among the children, guiding their learning.
At this stage the teacher began to widen the children's options, giving them more choice. She also changed some of the existing choices, for example, by putting bubbles in the water and setting out printing rather than painting with a brush. During this time the teacher observed the children and made a mental note of the preferences they seemed to have in their tasks they undertook. She noted that Eleanor seemed to prefer opportunities to role play.
Hirsch's painting of Two Men (Museum of Modern Art, New York), portraying a white worker and his Negro companion, won the popularity vote at the New York World's Fair in 1939. It is an example of Hirsch's reaffirmation of his "faith in the common ordinary man." Hirsch became a teacher of painting at the Art Students League, New York City, in 1959. His work appears in leading American museums. |
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