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Art Wing of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

For Students 9th - 10th
The Israel Museum's Art Wing exhibits examples of works from its collections of modern, contemporary, and Israeli paintings, prints, and photography.
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National Museum in Warsaw (Poland)

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Museum in Warsaw is actually a collection of five museums: the modern National Museum, Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture at the Krolikarnia Palace, the Poster Museum at Wilanow, Radziwill Palace in Nieborow and Romantic...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed:why Vermeer's "Girl With the Pearl Earring" Considered a Masterpiece

For Students 9th - 10th
Is she turning towards you or away from you? No one can agree. She's the subject of Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring," a painting often referred to as the 'Mona Lisa of the North.' But what makes this painting...
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Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Nighthawks

For Students 9th - 10th
View Hopper's famous "Nighthawks," along with contextual details and analysis.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Georgia O'keeffe

For Students 9th - 10th
A picture of a bust of Georgia O'Keefe is accompanied by some information about her painting style and place among modern American artists.
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma Exhibit: Chuck Close

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief introduction to the work of photorealist painter Chuck Close. Includes visual examples of his work, including the recognizable "Big Self-Portrait".
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Art Institute of Chicago

Modern Collection: Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait, 1887

For Students 9th - 10th
Click to enlarge Van Gogh's self-portrait from 1886-87, and read the paragraph of text explaining his methods.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Prose: Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson from a unit on Victorian Literature focuses on John Ruskin and his works that defended the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who did prefered the paintings of the earlier painters to those of Raphael, using the human image. It...
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Website
National Library of France

National Library of France: Heaven and Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how art through the ages has been influenced by the Earth and the heavens. See paintings that attempted to explain the Earth's creation from a scientific standpoint, sacred architecture that provided a place to worship the heavens,...
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eBook
Other

Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness

For Students 9th - 10th
This is Chapter One from "Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness," by Ian Tattersall. This chapter presents recent findings about the art and artifacts of early humans, and what those artifacts tell us about the intellectual...
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Handout
Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: Walt Kuhn

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of American painter Walt Kuhn who was active in the organization of the famous Armory Show of 1913. His name has become synonymous with paintings of circus and theatrical performers and with...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography: Pablo Picasso for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the biography of Pablo Picasso who was artist and painter of the Cubism and Modern art movement on this site.
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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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Helen Frankenthaler, the Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
Helen Frankenthaler was known for using a specific process of pouring paint on to the canvas rather than painting the colors onto the surface with a brush. View a picture of "The Bay" and read about her technique in this essay.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Van Gogh, the Starry Night

For Students 9th - 10th
Van Gogh's canvas "The Starry Night" is an exceptional work of art, not only in terms of its quality but also within the artist's collection, since in comparison to favored subjects like irises, sunflowers, or wheat fields, night...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mexican Muralism: Los Tres Grandes David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera

For Students 9th - 10th
Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and Jose Clemente Orozco-known as Los tres grandes-cultivated an artistic style that defined Mexican identity following the Revolution. They crafted epic murals on the walls of highly visible, public buildings...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lam, the Jungle

For Students 9th - 10th
Wifredo Lam remains the most renowned painter from Cuba and "The Jungle" remains his best known work and an important painting in the history of Latin American art and the history of twentieth-century modernism more broadly. View...
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Other

My studios.com: Persistence of Memory

For Students 9th - 10th
"Persistence of Memory" painting by Salvador Dali. This is one of Dali's most famous works.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Jean Dubuffet

For Students 9th - 10th
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Dubuffet's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Raoul Dufy

For Students 9th - 10th
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Dufy's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Paul Klee

For Students 9th - 10th
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Klee's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Georges Braque

For Students 9th - 10th
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Braque's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Salvador Dali

For Students 9th - 10th
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Dali's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Juan Gris

For Students 9th - 10th
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Gris's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.