Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Personified Sculpture
After learning about Fernand Leger's sculpture, students will learn basic concepts of modern dance, create their own movements, select sounds or music, and combine all of these in a modern dance performance.
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Henri Matisse: Dance 1
Features a comprehensive discussion by two art historians of Matisse's painting 'Dance 1', which is considered a Fauve masterpiece.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Article discussing the features of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Apotheosis of Homer.
Other
Yakima Valley Museum: Rodin: Maryhill Comes to Yakima
An educators guide to an exhibit featuring Auguste Rodin at the Yakima Valley Musem. Includes biographical information about Rodin, with background information on many of his sculptures, classroom activities, and discussion points.
Other
Bagadoo: Max Jacob in Quimper
A presentation of the famous artist and his relationship with his hometown. (Won 1st prize in a college-on-the-web contest.)
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Auguste Rodin
Biographical summary of Auguste Rodin. This site also provides examples of Rodin's work. Another section describes "How Rodin Achieved Unity and Drama".
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Paul Cezanne
Biographical account covers the life and career of Paul Cezanne, French artist and Post-Impressionist painter.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Andre Derain
Biographical account covers the life and career of Andre Derain, French artist and one of the founders of the Fauve artistic movement.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Yves Tanguy
Biographical account covers the life and career of Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Jean Antoine Watteau
Biographical summary of the life and career of 18th-century French rococo artist, Jean-Antoine Watteau.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Jean Honore Fragonard
Biographical summary of the life and career of French artist Jean-Honore Fragonard who painted in the Rococo style.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Honore Daumier
Biographical account covers the life and career of French artist Honore Daumier known for his drawings and cartoons satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Georges Seurat
Biographical highlights of the life and career of French post-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Henri Matisse
Biographical account highlights the life and career of French Post-Impressionist painter Henri Matisse.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Paul Gauguin
Biographical account highlights the life and career of French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Nicolas Poussin
Biographical account highlights the life and career of Nicolas Poussin, French painter of the Baroque style.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Fernand Leger
Biographical summary of the life and career of 20th-century French Cubist painter Fernand Leger.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Aristide Maillol
Biographical account covers the life and career of Aristide Maillol, a French sculptor, and painter.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Claude Monet Biography
Interesting biographical details and style of painting of Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Biographical summary of the life and career of French Neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.