Curated OER
Lesson: Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone
Kids consider the pure abstraction and minimalism found in Mary Heilmann's work. They analyze several of her pieces through critical discussion and then think about her use of a song title as the title of her exhibit. Learners then use a...
Curated OER
Lesson: Elizabeth Peyton: Artist's Community: The Real
What is real or imagined? The lines of beauty reality, and imagination are blurred in Elizabeth Peyton's portraits of her community. Learners analyze her use of artistic technique in conveying real and imagined communities. They then use...
Curated OER
Lesson: Elizabeth Peyton: Pictures of Royalty: The Imagined
Elizabeth Peyton is an artist who creates images of people (often famous) that she doesn't personally know. These images become part of her imagined community. Learners analyze her work, her community of imagined friends, and then create...
Curated OER
The Journey of the Spirit
Students discuss Scholastic Art Magazine issue on 'Artists Today' . They participate in a class discussion & watch a demonstration on the use of 'found objects' and ordinary materials (i.e. paper towels, leaves) to create surface...
Curated OER
Abstract to Real: The Human Form in Art
Young scholars analyze and evaluate the effects of abstraction and realism on depictions of the human form in ancient and modern-day cultures.
Curated OER
Look to Your Dreams
Students research the life of surrealist artist Salvador Dali and create their own "surreal" art in the form of a collage, based upon their dreams or fantasies.
Other
Centre Pompidou: Great Figures of Modern Art: Wassily Kandinsky
Educational dossier of the life and work of Wassily Kandinsky, built around a selection of his works, helps us understand Kandinsky's progression from his early realist works to abstraction. Includes a biographical note, reproductions, a...
Other
Whitney Museum of American Art: Georgia O'keefe: Abstraction
Find a full-featured analysis of an abstract work by Georgia O'Keeffe that communicates many key elements of her art, such as her use of color, the inspiration she found in nature, and her approach to abstraction. Includes insightful...
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Abstract Expressionist New York
Blockbuster exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art underscores the relationship between New York City and the explosion of creative activity among the artists who lived there in the postwar period. Learn why New York became the center of...
Other
Broken Toyland: The Art of Valery Milovic
Personal site of contemporary artist/illustrator Valery Milovic that also contains poetry, musings, and stories. Creative, intergrated site, developed around Milovic's thematic "Broken Toyland" universe.
REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 21. Computational Thinking
Computational thinking can be used to take a complex problem, understand what the problem is and develop possible solutions to solve or explain it. In these six Quest, students will learn about the four stages of computational thinking:...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Georgia O'keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction
The online arm of an exhibition staged in 2007, "Circling around Abstraction" showcases dozens of O'Keeffe's modernist works. View details about her career, her interest in abstraction, and a chronological selection of her paintings and...
Other
Brock University: Some Notes on Realism
This site talks about the different aspects of 19th-century realism. (From realist painting to literature)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sfmoma: Making Sense of Modern Art: Gerhard Richter
A multimedia in-depth look at the artist Gerhard Richter.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Stuart Davis
Stuart Davis is profiled at this site in a format that begins with a brief biographical sketch of his life. His works are then listed by appearance in the museum's database. Each work is presented in thumbnail format with brief...
BBC
Bbc: Bitesize: Introduction to Computational Thinking
Find out about the four cornerstones of computational thinking, and how these contribute to task completion and learning.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography: What Are Maps?
Defines what maps are and provides illustrations and related links to a site devoted to cartography.
Other
Electric Gallery: Abstract Realism Collections
This site includes the works of many realist artists. However, these paintings are more modern "abstract realism" rather than 19th century pieces.
Other
Fondation Beyeler: Ornament and Abstraction
This resource presents a scholarly comparison of non-Western styles of ornamental art with modern and contemporary abstract works by Western artists.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Wassily Kandinsky
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Kandinsky's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.