Students observe people at work. They create their own drawings of those people at their jobs.

Students paint portraits in the style of Rouault.

Students explore how to construct and play diminished triads and half and whole diminished chords on the keyboard. They create appropriate sounds to accompany sections of the movie "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors." Students discuss the...

Students study several of Marc Chagall's paintings with an emphasis on his use of symbolic color and of space. They explore learn basic techniques for using Scholar colored pencils, and create an artwork using a baseball theme.

Students research the myth of Icarus and his father and discuss the associated metaphor. They view the work of a number of artists and create a painting depicting the myth.

A large collection of resource links here for a wide range of art periods and styles from ancient times to the modern day.

This Artcyclopedia resource offers a brief overview of Expressionism and a chronological timeline that links to each artist.

This resource provides information about abstract expressionism, its leading practitioners (especially Pollock and de Kooning), and its place in American art during the period from 1940-76.

From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, here is the image "The Garden of Love (Improvisation Number 27)", an expressionist painting by Wassily Kandinsky.

This resource offers a study guide on the movements in twentieth-century art after World War II, including abstract expressionism, op art, pop art, minimalism, conceptual art, performance art, photorealism, earth art, neo-expressionism,...

This definition of expressionism in art includes numerous quotes from artists and pictorial examples of art that embodies the concept.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides this informative page on the Swiss expressionist painter Paul Klee (1879-1940). With information and pictures this in a nice resource for study.

If you have access to a color printer then you can print and play Hofmannopoly! Assemble the game board according to the directions and grab a friend to play. You will be an art student traveling through the world of Hans Hofmann. Learn...

From the landing page of a past exhibit introduction, use links to learn about Edvard Munch and the themes in his work. View selected works and the tools and techniques he used to create his art. A chronology of his life and additional...

An exhibition that examines the many influences that Jackson Pollock absorbed before breaking with past traditions to create a new kind of abstraction. Beginning with Thomas Hart Benton, who was Pollock's first teacher, Pollock learned...

This site offers a definition of Expressionism with links to Van Gogh and Gauguin.

This Artlex site offers a brief description of Expressionism, examples of Expressionist work, quotes, and related links.

This Artcyclopedia site offers a brief overview of Abstract Expressionism and a timeline that links to each artist.

Expressionism described primarily in terms of visual art. A good history of the movement and its key artists.

This website alphabetizes and briefly describes all the major movements in the history of visual arts. Good for use as a general reference for Art History studies and the study of historically based painting and art.

From the BBC's documentary series on art "Simon Schama's Power of Art", this is the web-page synopsis version of the program on the American abstract-expressionist painter, Mark Rothko.

Discover Contemporary Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Illusionism, and Lyrical Abstraction through artists that paint in these styles. Biographical information and visuals of artists work.

The Luce Foundation Center for American Art in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, presents this short biography, a photographic portrait of the artist and an example painting with a map to its exhibit location in the museum, by the...