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Art Wing of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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)
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...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed:why Vermeer's "Girl With the Pearl Earring" Considered a Masterpiece
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...
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Nighthawks
View Hopper's famous "Nighthawks," along with contextual details and analysis.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Georgia O'keeffe
A picture of a bust of Georgia O'Keefe is accompanied by some information about her painting style and place among modern American artists.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma Exhibit: Chuck Close
A brief introduction to the work of photorealist painter Chuck Close. Includes visual examples of his work, including the recognizable "Big Self-Portrait".
Art Institute of Chicago
Modern Collection: Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait, 1887
Click to enlarge Van Gogh's self-portrait from 1886-87, and read the paragraph of text explaining his methods.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Prose: Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood
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...
National Library of France
National Library of France: Heaven and Earth
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,...
Other
Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness
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...
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: Walt Kuhn
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...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: Pablo Picasso for Kids
Investigate the biography of Pablo Picasso who was artist and painter of the Cubism and Modern art movement on this site.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mondrian, Composition With Red, Blue, and Yellow
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"....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Helen Frankenthaler, the Bay
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Van Gogh, the Starry Night
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mexican Muralism: Los Tres Grandes David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lam, the Jungle
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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My studios.com: Persistence of Memory
"Persistence of Memory" painting by Salvador Dali. This is one of Dali's most famous works.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Jean Dubuffet
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Dubuffet's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Raoul Dufy
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Dufy's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Paul Klee
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Klee's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Georges Braque
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Braque's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Salvador Dali
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Dali's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Juan Gris
Artcyclopedia provides direct links to Gris's works in museums around the world. Online exhibitions and reviews.