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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Paul Cezanne

For Students 9th - 10th
WebMuseum's page on artist Paul Cezanne contains links to a biography, which details his life and gives examples and information on his works; a critique of him and his works; an examination of the themes of his works; and many pictures...
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Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Malevich Kasimir

For Students 9th - 10th
This site was created by The Web Museum, about the Russian painter and designer, Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935 CE). Provides information about his life, examples of his work, and a few links to more information.
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Handout
The Wharton Group

Discover France: Paul Cezanne

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is an interesting biography on Paul Cezanne, the French painter whose works evolved from one style into another. Links to related sites included.
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Website
The Wharton Group

Discover France: Art Nouveau

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on Art Nouveau in great detail. Find out what this term means, and how this "new art" adapted from old styles.
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Interactive
Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Exhibitions: Picasso Guitars: 1912 14

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition focuses on two cubist works by Picasso that showcase the artist's incessant inventiveness with traditional media and found objects.
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Other

Columbus Museum of Art: Curator's View: Picasso Cubist Still Life

For Students 9th - 10th
See the cubist still life painting 'Still Life with Compote and Glass' by Pablo Picasso, in this Curator's View series description and image from the Columbua Museum of Art.
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Other

Ask Art: Max Weber

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides links to many different topics surrounding the artist, Max Weber.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold: Charles Demuth

For Students 9th - 10th
View a picture of Charles Demuth's painting "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold," and read how it was inspired by his friendship with poet William Carlos Williams and his poem "The Great Figure."
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Esphyr Slobodkina

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides biographical information on Esphyr Slobodkina, a Cubist artist whose sphere of influence included children's books. The online exhibit includes images and descriptions of several of her works.
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Cool Fire Technology

Brain Bank: Art Movements and Periods

For Students 9th - 10th
This website alphabetizes and briefly describes all the major movements in the history of visual arts. Good for use as a general reference for Art History studies and the study of historically based painting and art.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mondrian, Composition With Red, Blue, and Yellow

For Students 9th - 10th
Piet Mondrian's painting, "Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow", is a collection of rectilinear forms, squares, and rectangles defined by vertical and horizontal lines. His style is called Neo-Plasticism or "The New Plastic Painting"....
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: Gertrude Stein

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to several interesting photos of Gertrude Stein.
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University at Buffalo

Gertrude Stein

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, maintained by a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, contains an excerpt from Stein's "Composition as Explanation" and 4 photos of Stein.
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Handout
The Wharton Group

Discover France: Pablo Picasso

For Students 9th - 10th
An insightful biography of Picasso (1881-1973 CE) by a museum curator, with critical analysis of several famous works interspersed throughout. Excellent discussion of Picasso's artistic influences. Includes reproductions of a few of his...
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Finding Polygons in Cubist Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan has students identifying the use of polygons in cubist portraits.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Hans Hofmann for Teachers (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Go directly to the lesson plans developed as complements to the PBS documentary "Hans Hofmann: Artist/Teacher, Teacher Artist." These classroom resources were designed to explore the influential theories of the artist.
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Other

Bahram Dabiri, 1950 Cubist/surrealist/romantic Painter

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a short biography of Bahram and many of his paintings.
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Other

Centre Pompidou: The Object in 20th Century Art

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Jacques Lipchitz

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides basic biographical information and links to some of the works of Jacques Lipchitz.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Frederick J. Whiteman

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Frederick J. Whiteman is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his Cubist inspired paintings.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Art Picasso

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews some characteristics of Picasso's style of painting and invites students to draw their own Picasso portrait! It includes some Activote questions and some excellent websites for...
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Website
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Torso of a Young Man

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents an image of the acubist sculpture by the French artist, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, entitled "Torso of a Young Man."
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Georges Braque

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account covers the life and career of Georges Braque, a 20th-century French painter, and co-founder of the Cubist movement.
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Jacob Lawrence

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account covers the life and career of Jacob Lawrence, African-American painter of the 20th century.

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