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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Life Imitates Art: The Great Gatsby

For Students 9th - 10th
This media gallery from the American Masters film F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's work mirrored events in his life. Using video, discussion questions, organizers, and essays, students will take a...
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PBS

Pbs: How Art Made the World: Political Art of Augustus

For Students 9th - 10th
The PBS series, titled "How Art Made the World," explains how a sculptural portrait of Augustus, the famous "Augustus of Prima Porta," was designed to further the political goals of Rome's first emperor. An excellent site for examining...
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Other

Museo De Arte De Puerto Rico (Museum of Art of p.r.)

For Students 9th - 10th
The online home of the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico lets visitors view special exhibitions and examples from its permanent collection. Its artist biographies and its glossary of art terms, which is accessible by clicking through to the...
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Definition of "art" according to ArtLex, a dictionary of art terms. Includes links to other important terms, as well as a long list of quotations defining "art."
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University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame: Career Alternatives for Art Historians

For Students 9th - 10th
This vast collection provides information on careers for those with training and interest in art history, outside of the world of universities.
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Other

National Gallery, London: Take One Picture Craft, Design & Technology

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Some exciting ideas from the National Gallery in London on incorporating various crafts into a fun art lesson.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: A Design for the East Building

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents drawings by the architect I.M. Pei and his design team for the National Gallery's East Building, which opened to the public in 1978.
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Other

Inuit Gallery of Vancouver: Inuit Art

For Students 9th - 10th
View stone and musk ox horn carvings and ceramic art of the Arctic.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Andy Warhol/digital Self Portraits

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students will be introduced to the life and art of Andy Warhol as a way of considering photography as a self-portrait medium. They will create their own digitally manipulated photographic self-portrait and then write a poem to describe...
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Other

Stair Galleries: Pop, Neo Pop and Post Pop

For Students 9th - 10th
This article shows the connection between Pop Art of the 1960s and the Neo-Pop and Post-Pop movements of the 1980s, 1990s, and into the 21st century.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Louise Nevelson Self Portrait

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to Wendy Wick Reaves, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, as she discusses the self-portrait of Louise Nevelson.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Stuart Davis

For Students 9th - 10th
Wendy Wick Reaves,a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, discusses the pencil drawing by Stuart Davis and explains how he achieves the look of his self-portrait.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Ornette Coleman

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief audio discussion of Elaine de Kooning's charcoal drawing of saxophonist, Ornette Coleman. Interesting comments by Wendy Wicks Reaves, curator at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Martin Lawrence Galleries

Martin Lawrence Galleries: Keith Haring

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience Keith Haring's art, and discover details about his life here.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Art of Australia

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a page on the art of Australia, including many hyperlinked names of artists and their works.
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Emory University

Michael C. Carlos Museum: Permanent Collection: Sub Saharan African Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Image gallery featuring selections from the Carlos Museum's collection of nineteenth and twentieth century African art. Also includes descriptions of the art.
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Web Gallery of Art

Web Gallery of Art: Leonardo Da Vinci

For Students 9th - 10th
A superb online collection of Leonardo's art. View many of his masterworks at this site, along with drawings, paintings, and inventions. Each reproduction includes a short commentary. A detailed biography is included, with embedded links...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Art Research Library

For Students 9th - 10th
Search the library catalog for any topic in art and you can bet the National Gallery of Art has some information on it. Start here for your artistic research needs!
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings

For Students 9th - 10th
Portraits in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery can be seen and understood with excellent gallery notes that also survey the history of portraiture in American art leading up to the modern period.
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Other

Museum of Web Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating site devoted to art and graphics used on the world wide web. Explore the best in buttons, banners, counters, and more.
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Other

Virtual Uffizi Gallery: Take a Virtual Tour of the Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
See the artwork located in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. This resource brings the images to you. Just click on the room or topic and see background information and a link to the image.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Edward Hopper Exhibition Brochure [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
From the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., this is the exhibition PDF of the brochure for the Edward Hopper Exhibition that runs through January of 2008.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home page for the National Gallery of Art. It offers a search option to find any information about an art history period or of a work of art that you need.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Children's Guide: The Art of Romare Bearden [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A colorful, printable packet, from the National Gallery of Art, for students studying the work of Romare Bearden. Includes images of his work, including his well-known collages. Investigates all the important aspects of Bearden's work:...