Museum of Modern Art
Modern Art and Ideas
The Museum of Modern Art provides this educators' guide to Dada and Surrealism. Featuring the works of such artists as Jean Arp, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, and Meret Oppenheim among others, the guide is ideal for art history and...
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The Age of Confusion
According to the presentation, the age of confusion was marked by a very specific set of art and philosophical movements. Take a visual trip, and explore expressionism, cubism, Dada, Bauhaus, existentialism, and the new modes of...
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Dali & Desnos
Students explore surreal art and poetry. In this visual arts lesson, students examine works by André Breton, Robert Desnos, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miro. Students then apply the techniques in the works they analyze to their own poetry.
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Dali & Desnos: Surrealism in Poetry and Art
Students research the surrealism movement and its primary artists. Language is also analyzed, and students will create their own original poem utilizing surrealistic techniques.
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Cell Art
Combine art and science with this cell structure assignment. Learners depict a cell diagram, including the organelles, imitating a specific artist's style.
Practical Pages
Famous Artists Lapbook
Create mini books with some of the most beautiful and well-known masterpieces of our time. Learners read short paragraphs about famous artists such as Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, and Johannes Vermeer, and create different kinds of...
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Surrealism
A study of the Surrealist Movement can lead students on an exploration of art, philosophy, and culture.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Surrealism
This Artlex website gives a detailed definition of Surrealism including its founder, influences, examples of this type of art, and its relationship to dadaism.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: Salvador Dali Art for Kids
Students learn about the biography of Salvador Dali, artist and painter of the Surrealism art movement on this site.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Surrealism
A brief description of the beginning and growth of Surrealism between World War I and World War II including the goals and theories of this abstract art movement.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Surrealism
A brief description of surrealistic art with a long list of artists associated with this art form.
Other
Centre Pompidou: Great Figures of Modern Art: Surrealist Art
This resource about surrealism discusses its origins and includes a chronology of the movement, a glossary of surrealist terms, and reviews of major surrealist artists: De Chirico, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Mir, Ren Magritte, Salvador...
Ducksters
Ducksters: History: Surrealism Art for Kids
Kids learn about the Surrealism Art movement and its major artists such as Salvador Dali and Giorgio de Chirico on this site.
Other
Jake Biddington: Surrealism
Jake Biddington's resource with art terminology definitions, an art gallery, and more! This page is a biography on surrealism and has hyper-links to artists and images.