This resource provides information about abstract expressionism, its leading practitioners (especially Pollock and de Kooning), and its place in American art during the period from 1940-76.

This video lesson focuses on concrete and abstract language by defining them in a comparison form, providing examples of each, and providing practice in the form of listing words and asking students to classify them as concrete or abstract.

This page explains that an abstract noun is not identifiable by any of the five senses and provides examples.

This Artcyclopedia site offers a brief overview of Abstract Expressionism and a timeline that links to each artist.

A scavenger hunt that could be used as a review for students. Site provides ten questions on abstract expressionism.

This online museum page provides an overview of the artistic form of Abstract Expressionism.

In this lesson students will use art, writing, and technology to explore abstract art. Students will use digital cameras to take extreme close up shots of objects that will resemble abstract art.

If you visit a museum with a collection of modern and contemporary art, you're likely to see works that sometimes elicit the response, "My cat could make that, so how is it art?" But is it true? Could anyone create one of Jackson...

The Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) module explains how to write a journal abstract.

This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) explains to process for submitting a journal abstract.

Find a full-featured analysis of an abstract work by Georgia O'Keeffe that communicates many key elements of her art, such as her use of color, the inspiration she found in nature, and her approach to abstraction. Includes insightful...

From Purdue University, a lesson that lays out the details to writing a good abstract.

The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.

Discover Contemporary Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Illusionism, and Lyrical Abstraction through artists that paint in these styles. Biographical information and visuals of artists work.

The online arm of an exhibition staged in 2007, "Circling around Abstraction" showcases dozens of O'Keeffe's modernist works. View details about her career, her interest in abstraction, and a chronological selection of her paintings and...

Delve into the abstract world of Wassily Kandinsky! Allow your imagination to soar as you discover mathematical connections within Kandinsky images that explore the relationships between geometric shapes and polygons.

Delve into the abstract world of Wassily Kandinsky! Allow your imagination to soar as you discover mathematical connections within Kandinsky images that explore the relationships between geometric shapes and polygons.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction article shares information about abstract art and the insights of the artist Mark Rothko. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...

These course notes distinguish between an abstraction and abstract data types (ADT). Follow further links to examples of ADTs- stacks and lists.

Notes and examples of abstract and concrete nouns.

This resource gives many examples of how math and geometry are used by visual artists to create abstract sculpures.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn to identify the differences between concrete and abstract nouns. There is an Activote review at the end of the lesson.

Contains a definition of Abstract Expressionism, some of the artists involved in the movement, and what they were trying to achieve.

Alma Woodsey Thomas is the focus of this lesson plan that introduces students to abstract art. Students will come to understand how the art elements can be used to express emotion and communicate ideas without including objects in the...