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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Collection Tours: Jewelry Highlights

For Students 9th - 10th
From the online collection tours of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; this is a 35 piece slideshow of highlights from the museum's jewelry collection which spans over 4,000 years beginning with Egyptian works. Scroll down to the tour of...
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Bright Hub Education: Two Dimensional Art Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - K
You don't have to be a trained artist to create beautiful two and three-dimensional art projects with your preschoolers. Many simple activities, such as painting and coloring, can be modified to include sensory elements to increase...
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National Museum of Women in the Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
The permanent collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Images of artwork, biographies and profiles are all available, organized by century. You can search for a particular female artist as well.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Egyptian Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Ancient Egyptian art must be viewed from the standpoint of the ancient Egyptians to understand it. This article discusses the purpose of Ancient Egyptian art and includes pictures.
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Explore Art, Drawings

For Students 9th - 10th
This site breaks down the art of drawing into six subcategories, each encompassing a different drawing medium. Mediums include chalk, charcoal, crayon, ink, metalpoint, and pencil. Each subcategory has many visual examples.
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Explore Art: Manuscripts

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting collection of manuscripts. Teachers and students can explore dozens of images of medieval and early Renaissance manuscripts, both religious and secular. Clicking on the image will pull up a brief description of the work's...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: John Cederquist

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, John Cederquist is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work in teaching three-dimensional art. Cederquist also worked with sculpture...
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Sculpture & 3 D Design Unit

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtLex provides a unit of lessons dealing with three-dimensional design. A quiz with questions on sculpture, art criticism, and qualities of art is included, centering on the sculpture "Vaquero" by Luis Jimenez. There are links to the...
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Paul Sharits: Thinking in a New Way About Movies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Information about 16mm films made by Paul Sharits is packed into his two-dimensional drawings on graph paper. Students will learn about how film works to understand how to translate Sharits's drawings into information about his films....
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Look for the Symbol in the Sculpture

For Students 3rd - 8th
This websites answers the question, "What is a Symbol?" Click on the sculptures for a description of the symbols in each work.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Japanese Art: The Formats of Two Dimensional Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Japanese two-dimensional works of art can take several different formats. Read about handscrolls and hanging scrolls and view examples in this essay.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Abakanowicz on the Roof

For Students 9th - 10th
"On the Roof" refers to the location of her art. This installation artist has found a home on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum.
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Other

The Worldwide Art Gallery: Still Life

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site has a basic description of still-life art with several famous examples from great painters.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shapes Into Sculptures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will identify 2- and 3-dimensional shapes as well as create shape drawings and sculptures. Teacher materials are available.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shape Mobile

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, students will create a shape mobile of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes made from geometric shapes.
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection focuses on Leonardo's sculpture, which, because none of his sculptural works have either survived or were executed, are realized through preparatory drawings and the three-dimensional works of related artists....
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Tech4Learning

Pics4 Learning: Images for Education: Carving

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Dozens of useful photos of various carvings from around the world! A useful reference in an art or history class. Browse through the examples, then click to enlarge.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Roy Lichtenstein on the Roof

For Students 9th - 10th
A web exhibit focused on Lichtenstein's sculptures on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Features images of large bronze and aluminum sculptures.
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Imagin on Fun and Games: Create a Crane [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow these simple directions for making a three-dimensional crane out of paper.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wax Crayon Mosaics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Through this lesson, young scholars will learn how to use crayons to make three-dimensional mosaic designs.
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Tech4Learning

Pics4 Learning: Images for Education: Sculpture

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Dozens of useful photos of various sculptures from around the world! A useful reference in an art or history class. Browse through the examples, then click to enlarge.
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Curated OER

Baltimore Museum of Art Sculpture Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
Nice images of outdoor scupture by five different artists including Mark di Suvero. Various mediums were used such as steel, concrete, granite, and bronze.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Perspective Drawing Inspired by n.c. Wyeth [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For this lesson, students will generate unique fantasy drawings that utilize perspective and create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. Deriving inspiration from the American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth's The...

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