In Themes, students access artworks curated by topic. There are over 170 Themes. Themes “provide a wide range of information organized around different subjects. You can assign a Theme that covers a topic your class has studied, and ask students to select and respond to a piece of content that resonates with them. Or, assign a specific story, online exhibit, video, Street View tour or piece of art within the Theme”.
Students explore popular artworks through guided audio narrations. They will get to listen to masterpieces including Evelyn de Morgan’s Love Potion, Kilmt’s ‘Life and Death‘, Chagall’s Dreamscape and many more.
Arts & Culture Experiments (available only on Google Arts & Culture mobile app) are projects that draw on the expressive power of technology to explore the world of art and culture. There are over 1600 experiments organized into different collections including: Experiments for Learning, Play with Arts & Culture, AI+ Writing, Digital Wellbeing Experiments, Voice Experiments, Wen VR Experiments, and many more. “Experiments demonstrate how technology and art influence each other. Many experiments were created by artists in residency with Google Arts & Culture, and born out of a collaboration with Google’s machine learning engineers”.
Like Historical Figures, in Historical Events students get to visually explore popular events that marked our human history including events such as World War I and II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, The Holocaust, the Civil Rights movement, the French Revolution, the Invasion of Normandy, among several others. Students can search for events alphabetically or use a chronological timeline that starts with the year 500 and extends to the present. To search for historical events, open the navigation menu on the upper left side of your screen, and click on Historical events.
In Mediums, students discover the various art types and learn about the different materials artists use to design their artwork. For instance, they get to learn about oil paint, metal, ink, textile, paper, canvas, clay, graphite, photograph, pen, engraving, etching, cardboard, wax, and many more. To access Mediums, open Google Arts & Culture, click on the navigation menu on the upper left side of your screen and select Mediums.
