Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography
John Pfahl used creativity, strategic placement of objects, changing vantage points, and a sense of humor to create his Altered Landscape series of photographs. Students will learn about his artist statements and methods and then create...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography
Young scholars will learn about horizon lines in traditional landscapes and portraits, shadows and reflected light, and John Pfahl's Altered Landscapes. They will also create their own altered landscape photographs and portraits and...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Painting an Impression
Impressionists used new methods of mixing colors based on contemporary scientific writings about optics. This lesson plan explores the theory of optical color mixing, painting the same subject under different conditions of light, and the...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Three Ways to Make a Scene
Students will analyze landscapes by three artists. After learning about the horizon line, they will create their own painted and collaged landscapes inspired by one of the artists.
National Gallery of Canada
National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario)
The online arm of the National Gallery of Canada provides a variety of entryways into the museum's collections of Canadian art, aboriginal art, Inuit art, photographs, contemporary art, and American and European art. Use the museum's...
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Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Located in Lincoln, NE. The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden web site resources highlight its collection of American art. Find examples of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism,...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: North American Galleries and Museums
A collection of links to art galleries and museums in North America.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: The Elements of Art: Texture
Students will be introduced to one of the basic elements of art, texture, by identifying different types of textures found in multiple works of art and hypothesize what materials and techniques were used to achieve that texture. Then,...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Thiebaud's Cake Math (Intermediate Version)
Using the painting, Cakes by artist Wayne Thiebaud, students will learn and practice math concepts of volume and surface area. Then they will create a bold cake painting, either online or with classroom art materials.
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University of the Arts, London: Manuscripts at Universal Leonardo
This gallery of 22 excerpts from Leonardo's notebooks is accompanied by historical information and links to additional explorations of his interests in the forces of nature, light and vision, and imagination and invention. The drawings...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department (Iad)
The Incredible Art Department website started in 1994 and has grown into a huge site with a wealth of resources on teaching art, student research, careers in art, art history, games, links to art galleries and museums around the world,...
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
Northern Research Portal: "Art and Artists" Exhibit
The Inuit and First Nations people tended to express their culture and history through artistic expression. Highlighted is the various art forms and artists of these people and especially the Northern region of Canada. Included are...
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Silicon Valley Art Museum: China's Han Dynasty Artifacts
See treasures from a Han dynasty tomb (206 BC to AD 24) exhibited at the Silicon Valley Art Museum. Delightful reproductions of ceramic and bronze vessels and figurines pepper the site. Informative notes discuss both the technology used...
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Asia Society: More Than Meets the Eye: Japanese Art
This tour of Japanese art is almost as good as being there in person. It offers an extensive introduction and virtual gallery.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Fashion Illustrations
Explore more fashion illustrations of the early 20th century in this online art gallery of lithographs. Includes the work of noted French illustrator George Barbier.
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Spanish arts.com: The Museum of "El Prado"
Enter the largest art gallery in the world, the museum of "El Prado." Click on sculpture, drawing and coin exhibits. Peruse through exhibits online and be enriched by the captivating works of art.
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Anavian Gallery (New York): Islamic Art Gallery
Dozens of examples of Islamic art in all media in the holdings of the Anavian Gallery, New York-based art dealers/appraisers. Browse, learn, and enjoy.
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Asheville Art Museum: More Than Math
A fascinating and fun web site that integrates art and math. Includes activities and an art gallery of work from Joseph Albers.
Other
Studio Antiques and Fine Art Incorporated
A tremendous display of fine art complete with the artist's bio and studio address, as well as the type of painting it is (oil painting, water color etc.) The font size on this site is small but readable.
Other
Vincent Art Gallery: About Expressionism
This site offers a definition of Expressionism with links to Van Gogh and Gauguin.
Smithsonian Institution
Freer | Sackler Galleries
Explore the Freer and Sackler Galleries by topics including but not limited to Arts of the Islamic Worlds, Chinese Art, and Contemporary Art. An overview of the collection, online exhibit features, and teacher resources are available.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Michelangelo
The Web Gallery of Art provides an amazing online collection of Michelangelo's (1475-1564) art. Not only can you view high-quality reproductions of his drawings, paintings, sculptures, and architectural commissions, you can also click...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
An interesting site with examples of Egyptian art from the National Gallery of Art in Washington. This article discusses pharaohs, sphinxes, symbols, mummification, and much more. [PDF]