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Lesson Plan
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Personified Sculpture

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
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Lesson Plan
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Painting an Impression

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Three Ways to Make a Scene

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Art History: Henri Matisse: Dance 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Features a comprehensive discussion by two art historians of Matisse's painting 'Dance 1', which is considered a Fauve masterpiece.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Art History: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

For Students 9th - 10th
Article discussing the features of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Apotheosis of Homer.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Yakima Valley Museum: Rodin: Maryhill Comes to Yakima

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Website
Other

Bagadoo: Max Jacob in Quimper

For Students 9th - 10th
A presentation of the famous artist and his relationship with his hometown. (Won 1st prize in a college-on-the-web contest.)
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Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Auguste Rodin

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of Auguste Rodin. This site also provides examples of Rodin's work. Another section describes "How Rodin Achieved Unity and Drama".
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Paul Cezanne

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account covers the life and career of Paul Cezanne, French artist and Post-Impressionist painter.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Andre Derain

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account covers the life and career of Andre Derain, French artist and one of the founders of the Fauve artistic movement.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Yves Tanguy

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account covers the life and career of Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Jean Antoine Watteau

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of 18th-century French rococo artist, Jean-Antoine Watteau.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Jean Honore Fragonard

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of French artist Jean-Honore Fragonard who painted in the Rococo style.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Honore Daumier

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Georges Seurat

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical highlights of the life and career of French post-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Henri Matisse

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account highlights the life and career of French Post-Impressionist painter Henri Matisse.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Paul Gauguin

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account highlights the life and career of French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Nicolas Poussin

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account highlights the life and career of Nicolas Poussin, French painter of the Baroque style.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Fernand Leger

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of 20th-century French Cubist painter Fernand Leger.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Aristide Maillol

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account covers the life and career of Aristide Maillol, a French sculptor, and painter.
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Handout
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Claude Monet Biography

For Students 3rd - 8th
Interesting biographical details and style of painting of Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of French Neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.