Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: 3 D "Special Space" Painting
Jim Dine's Child's Blue Wall combines sculpture and painting. It is both a realistic depiction of a child's bedroom and an abstract painting of a night sky. This lesson plan explores how Dine accomplished these two ideas in the same work...
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...
US Department of Agriculture
U.s. Department of Agriculture: Paint Your Pet's Behavior
Use this activity to learn more about different animal behaviors. Get creative painting or drawing!
Birmingham Museums Trust (UK)
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: Victorians: Investigate a Victorian Painting
Young scholars studying the Victorian Age can dig into the details depicted in a painting from the era. Enhance study with utlization of the additional activities and timeline provided.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: "Live" Paintings (Lesson Plan)
This art project will teach students about various art styles and allow them to investigate various art historical periods. The site has a lesson plan included.
Read Works
Read works.org: The Artist Who Painted Herself
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this read aloud lesson to teach concepts such as main idea, using pictures to gain information, and recount key details from an informational text. This lesson plan aligns with Common Core standards...
ACT360 Media
Act Den: Pop Art Lesson Plan
Use Paint Shop Pro to "Design a label for a drink of your choice." Learners will have the opportunity to explore the text tools that Paint Shop Pro offers to change the style, size, effects, and strength of the text.
Other
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
This resource includes a detailed biography, transcripts of his letters to his beloved brother Theo, photographs, numerous reproductions, and more. The museum also collects Western paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from the...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Feel the Music
Students will learn about words used to desribe music. Students will listen to music, move to music, and paint to express themselves.
wikiHow
Wiki How: How to Mix Colors Properly
A quick review of the color wheel and some tips on how to mix colors with paint.
University of California
University of California: Bampfa: Portrait of Alexander Dix by Sarah Perkins
Learn about the significance of children's portraiture in early America by studying a portrait of young Alexander Dix painted in 1795. The portrait is also a useful resource for learning about how portrait settings can be used to express...
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Eugene Delacroix
A short biography of Eugene Delacroix. Includes specific notes for many of his works, including "Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi", though there is no reproduction of the painting.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Velino Shije Herrera: What's the Story?
Artwork often has hidden stories within them. This Native American painting has three hidden stories. Can you find them?
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: Edgar Degas Art for Kids
A webpage containing the biography of an artist and painter of the Impressionist art movement who painted ballet dancers named Edgar Degas.
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Send a Postcard
Students develop an understanding of impressionsim by studying works of Claude Monet and then designing and sending their own postcards.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 2: Unit 3: La Diversion
In this third unit of an intermediate Spanish course, students learn about Spanish art. They investigate El Greco and use a whiteboard tool to create a painting in El Greco's style. They present and research information about other...
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Flowers & Georgia O'keeffe (Lesson Plan)
Students will have the opportunity to create a drawing of a flower using Georgia O'Keeffe as their inspiration. They will develop skills in drawing and composition and understand the difference between realistic and abstract art.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Rothko's Legacy
Transcript of NewsHour's Paul Solman interviewing the art historian and Rothko biographer, Dore Ashton. Provides insight into the life and work of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. Interview dated August 5, 1998.
Other
Tate Online: Tate Tales
Let your imagine run wild when you select a painting from the Tate Gallery collection. Interpret the painting by making up a story about it. Let the painting inspire you to new heights of creative writing and then add it to the story...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Gross Clinic, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912
Thomas Eakins's controversial painting that reflects the skill of professional, scientific practitioners during the late-nineteenth century.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: So, This Is Alberta
As a part of celebrating Alberta's 100 years of being a province in Canada, The Heritage Community Foundation has created "So, this is Alberta", a website that thoroughly captures who Alberta is. From History to Innovation, from Natural...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Colorful and Musical Feelings
In this lesson, students will communicate their emotions through drama, art, and poetry. Mouse Paint, by Ellen Stohl Walsh, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, by Mary O'Neill, and Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" will be used during this engaging...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Things to Do at Home
Families can come together through games designed to make history something fun and integral to family life. Build a sod house like prairie settlers did in the 1800s. Go back in time to visit five families that lived in the same house...
Other
Kim's Korner: The Educator's Reference Desk
A great cross-curricular lesson that focuses on humanity in the time of the Stone Age. Students will study prehistoric cave paintings and then produce their own paintings as part of a large mural.
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