Lesson Plan
Kinder Art

Kinder Art: Flowers & Georgia O'keeffe (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will have the opportunity to create a drawing of a flower using Georgia O'Keeffe as their inspiration. They will develop skills in drawing and composition and understand the difference between realistic and abstract art.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Abstract Expressionism

For Students 9th - 10th
This Artcyclopedia site offers a brief overview of Abstract Expressionism and a timeline that links to each artist.
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Georgia O'keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Hyman Bloom

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Hyman Bloom is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with paintings and drawings in the tradition of expressionism.
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Other

Electric Gallery: Abstract Realism Collections

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes the works of many realist artists. However, these paintings are more modern "abstract realism" rather than 19th century pieces.
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Other

Hunter O'reilly: Abstract Artist and Geneticist

For Students 9th - 10th
Galleries of artwork and information on the artist Hunter O'Reilly.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Eye Contact: Ornette Coleman

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief audio discussion of Elaine de Kooning's charcoal drawing of saxophonist, Ornette Coleman. Interesting comments by Wendy Wicks Reaves, curator at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Other

Brock University: Some Notes on Realism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site talks about the different aspects of 19th-century realism. (From realist painting to literature)