Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo Memorials: Art for Remembering
The lessons in this issue familiarize students with memorials in which they examine four memorials from around the world and examples in their own community. In a culminating activity, students identify and create a memorial for someone...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Themes in Literature
This tutorial focuses on common themes in literature, beginning with a slide show discussing 11 different, common themes and literary examples. This is followed by a 11-minute YouTube video with students acting out common themes in...
Tate
Tate Kids: Memento Mori (Remember That You Must Die)
An interactive exploration of the universal themes of death and mortality, as depicted by a range of twentieth-century artists. Developed by the Britain-based Tate museum, this site combines art criticism with a survey of symbols that...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Images as Messages
After reviewing samples of photography that send messages to views, students will consider something in their own lives that could be captured by art and used to illustrate a meaningful message.
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Festival of Light
Follow this museum trail and discover through seven paintings how different cultures have used light as a form of symbolism in their work.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Asia
A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Art of Africa
A landing page for a course on African art found in regions and in individual countries.
Other
Centre Pompidou: The Object in 20th Century Art
See how artists within various art movements and styles of the 20th century have portrayed objects in their art. Presents a vast array of work surrounding one theme.
University of Oxford (UK)
Pitt Rivers Museum: Human Form in Art
An illustrated article that discusses the earliest forms of human representation in art, touching on their spiritual and ritual significance.