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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Beyond Geometry: Modernism, Defined

For Students 9th - 10th
The term modernism, as used in its artistic context, is defined.
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Boston College

Boston College: 20th Century Architecture: Post Modernism

For Students 9th - 10th
Photo gallery of the Georges Pompidou-Beaubourg Center in Paris. This building is a good example of post-modern architecture.
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Other

Calouset Gulbenkian Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the home page of the Calouset Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal. The museum houses both the private collection of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, the founder, and a more recent collection of modern and contemporary art. Online,...
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Lacma Collections Online

For Students 9th - 10th
This Los Angeles museum offers online exhibits of international art. Focuses include contemporary art and collections from Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Land Through a Lens

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Land Through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," features 84 photographs from the early years of photography in the 1850s through the 20th century. Included in the collection are works by early, modern, and...
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Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art: Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a companion to a 2006 exhibit of the works of American artist Andrew Wyeth, who died in January 2009. Features include a biography, overview of the exhibit, a five part podcast from a museum curator,...
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The Wharton Group

Discover France: Art Periods: Cubism

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed history and explanation of the ideologies behind cubism. Lots of cubism links as well.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Masquerade Dress

For Students 9th - 10th
A picture of the painting "The Masquerade Dress" with general information about it. Also includes detailed biographical info about the painter, Robert Henri.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: A Song for the Horse Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibit from the National Museum of the American Indian explores the close relationship of Native Americans and their horses through art, pottery, textiles, artifacts, and photographs. It traces this relationship from the 15th...
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PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Jackson Pollock

For Students 9th - 10th
A NewsHour interview with Kirk Varnedoe, curator of painting at the Museum of Modern Art, on the life, work, and influence of Jackson Pollock. The interview revolves around Pollock's breakthrough drip paintings and is interspersed with...
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Stencil Portraits

For Students 9th - 10th
The Museum of Modern Art presents this classroom or group activity for making stencil portraits. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Maurice Sterne

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Maurice Sterne is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with modern painting and sculpting.
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Dali: Painting and Film

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art explores the relationship between Salvador Dali's art and the role cinema played in his works. Click on "navigate" in the right upper corner to work your way through.
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Manuel Alvarez Bravo

For Students 9th - 10th
The Museum of Modern Art offers a nice biography and a few images of this great Mexican photographer.
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Philip C. Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography highlights the career of Philip Johnson, founder of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and designer of many landmarks across the nation, including Pennzoil Place in Houston,...
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art: Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
In recent years, the parameters of Islamic art (particularly as defined by museums, commercial art galleries, and private collections) have expanded to include contemporary works by artists from or with roots in the Middle East. These...
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Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Artists in the Collection: Richard Avedon

For Students 9th - 10th
Browse the museum's holdings of works by Avedon, which include several iconic portraits as well as some fashion photography. Also includes a biographical note, excerpted from Grove Art Online.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: A Brief History of Religion in Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Before we began putting art into museums, art mostly served as the visual counterpart to religious stories. Are these theological paintings, sculptures, textiles and illuminations from centuries ago still relevant to us? Jeremiah Dickey...
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Curated OER

A View on Cities: Antwerp: Mhk

For Students 9th - 10th
MHK - Museum of Modern Art (Antwerp)
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University of Notre Dame

Snite Museum of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame houses over 19,000 works of art from the antique through modern. The web site illustrates many works found on display and lists all works on display.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Ault

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on George Ault. Ault's paintings throughout his life consistently reflected a modernist theme. The site, in addition to the...
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Other

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
Located in Lincoln, NE. The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden web site resources highlight its collection of American art. Find examples of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism,...
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Museum of the City of San Francisco

Museum of San Francisco: Isadora Duncan 1878 1927

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Museum of San Francisco provides a biography and family background of Isadora Duncan, with stories of the family's history and involvement in the arts, as well as Duncan's upbringing.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hagia Sophia

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this page provides an explanatory description of the 6th-century church Hagia Sophia in modern-day Istanbul. Various images of the structure and links to other related topics are also included.