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Website
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Balance

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is the encyclopedia entry for balance which covers symmetry and asymmetry, balance with color, and other types of balance.
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Interactive
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Texture

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is the encyclopedia entry on texture and it covers types of texture, visual texture, and illusion of space.
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Color

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is from the artist's encyclopedia entry for color and includes information on the color wheel, value, mood, natural...
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Shape

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This activity is from the artist's encyclopedia entry for shape which includes information on geometric/organic shapes, variations...
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Website
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Space

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This entry from the artist's encyclopedia on space includes information on types of space, real space, and perspective.
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Repetition

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This instructional activity is on repetition using Carla Running Horse's "Star Pattern Quilt." The animation demonstrates the...
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Interactive
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Balance

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on balance (symmetrical and asymmetrical) using "Wrist Guard" by Navajo. The animation shows the arrangement of the...
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Geometric Organic Shape

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on geometric and organic shape using Senufo's "Granary Door." The animation shows the formation of the various...
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Tints and Shades

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on tints and shades and the work studied is from Frank Stella. The animation demonstrates the difference and...
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McGraw Hill

My Art Studio: Elements of Art: Composition: Rhythm

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive activity explaining the principle of rhythm as it applies to visual art.
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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: Harmony

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Artlex provides a brief but effective definition of the Principle of Design known as Harmony. There are links to other terms within the definition as well as quotations by Cezanne, Seurat and Ingres.
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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: Unity

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Artlex provides a brief but effective definition of the Principle of Design known as Unity. There are links to other terms within the definition.
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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: V Page

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief but effective definition of the Principle of Design known as Variety. There are links to other terms within the definition as well as quotations useful to the topic.
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Lesson Plan
Kinder Art

Kinder Art: Monet's Garden by the Sea

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A great lesson plan using oil pastels where the student looks at Monet's "Garden at Saint-Adresse," and then creates their own composition focusing on foreground, middleground and background.
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Website
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Line

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is from the artist's toolkit encyclopedia and includes information on types of lines, edge and outline, expressive line,...
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Website
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Rhythm

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This encyclopedia entry on rhythm and movement covers rhythm and repetition, alternating rhythm, and rhythm and movement.
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Complementary Colors

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This instructional activity is complementary colors and the artwork studied is Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Seated Woman." The...
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Primary and Secondary

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on the color wheel and it studies both primary and secondary colors using Grace Hartigan's "Billboard." The...
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Warm and Cool Colors

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on warm and cool colors and works are studied from both Van Gogh and Joan Mitchell. The animation shows the...
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Edge and Outline

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson plan is on edge and outline and the artwork studied is Fernand Leger's Divers on a Black Background. The animation...
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Linear Perspective

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on linear perspective and it explores this a work by Camille Pissarro. The animation shows vanishing point, linear...
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Positive and Negative Space

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on positive and negative space, and the artwork studied is from Katharina Fritsch.
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Lesson Plan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit: Line

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This lesson is on types of lines and the artwork studied is Franz Marc's Tiger. The animation shows the arrangement of the lines.
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Article
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Ideas About Judging Art

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a personal reflection on judging art from both a layperson and professional point of view.

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