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Gallery Crawl

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore art and artists from a specific country. While on a field trip to an area art museum, students choose one painting to sketch. After researching the chosen painting, students prepare a presentation in the targeted...
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Meet Matisse!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders learn all about Matisse.
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Realism: Landscape

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students watch videos and experiment with different mediums of art. Each day students create a project with different materials.
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Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore free-motion machine quilting through three exercises. They enhance patterns, make their own patterns and stitch a realistic quilted drawing. Students create a color wheel and develop a variety of methods that enable them...
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Pear-Shaped Bottle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars describe the designs on this Chinese ceramic bottle and analyze and discuss the shape of the piece. They describe how art from China arrived in Mexico during the viceregal period. Students create their own blue...
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Linking Lines to Landscape

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students evaluate art to enhance their core knowledge of fiction, American folk heroes, and the water cycle. In this art lesson, students complete a unit of activities to use art to study various topics of literature, history, and...
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Fantasy Visualization

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars view and discuss a selection of paintings from Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and other Surrealist artists. They play a game in which each person in a group writes a sentence and passes it on to the next person without...
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Talk The Talk

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create their own "talking sticks" that reflect personas they have invented in this Art lesson designed to introduce the Yoruba peoples from Nigeria. Emphasis is placed on personal reflection after completing the "sticks".
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Folktale through African Art

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study folktales and other stories from West Africa. By hearing and reading these stories they explore many new cultural and religious beliefs, such as spirits inhabiting nature and possessing special powers. Once the students...
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A Child: Past And Present, Rich And Poor

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders analyze universal human rights. They examine their causes, consequences, and possible solutions, and discuss selected global issues. They plan and evaluate age appropriate actions to support peace and sustainability in our...
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Breaking News English: New Computer Art Mirrors Viewer's Mood

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "New Computer Art Mirrors Viewer's Mood," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Photographs as an Artist's Tool

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners learn about Eakins use of photography as a tool for painting. They apply use of photography in their own painting or drawing. They incorporate time of day, composition and positioning of human subject in their own painting or...
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Oceanography Class Quilt

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create and observe a collage of oceanography topics that be placed on quilt tiles in a culmination art project to represent information learned.
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PBS

Pbs: Sister Wendy's American Collection: Still Life With Two Lemons by Claesz

For Students 9th - 10th
Webpage describing Still Life with Two Lemons, a painting by Pieter Claesz from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Image of art provided as well as an option of a larger version or a detail viewer that can be navigated. Also includes a quote...
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Tate

Tate Online I Map: "Still Life With a Beer Mug" by Fernand Leger

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides "Still Life with a Beer Mug" by French cubist painter Fernand Leger. An image file along with information about the artist and the artwork provide an excellent resource on the topic.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Still Life Painting [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the history of still-life painting through a printable catalog of multiple example works of art. Images are accompanied by descriptions and detailed examinations of their elements, meanings, and context.
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Other

Columbus Museum of Art: Curator's View: Picasso Cubist Still Life

For Students 9th - 10th
See the cubist still life painting 'Still Life with Compote and Glass' by Pablo Picasso, in this Curator's View series description and image from the Columbua Museum of Art.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Cezanne's Still Lifes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will view film footage of Paul Cezanne's actual studio in Aix-en-Provence and compare objects they see to his drawings and paintings in the National Gallery of Art collection. By selecting and arranging objects of their choice,...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Inside Scoop: Dutch Still Life [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
A kid-friendly printable packet that walks you through the "what's" and the "why's" of a Dutch food still-life painting. Also includes a fun cookie recipe!
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Chronological Listing of Still Life Painters

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia's complete list of still life painters from the 16th thru the 20th centuries. There are links to the artists' biography and works.
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J. Paul Getty Trust

J. Paul Getty Museum: In Focus: Still Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Enter the J. Paul Getty Museum to visit the exhibition, Still Life. This exhibition takes a new look at still life by examining the genre as portrayed in photography. Many examples from the 19th, 20th, and even 21st centuries are shown,...
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Other

Abc: Landscape and Still Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
With this resource, students will explore how the illusion of depth is created by artists on a flat surface. By examining both a still life and a landscape, students will learn about foreground, middleground, background, and overlapping...
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Still Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a definition of still-life as well as many examples of still-lifes and artists who painted them. Includes links to related topics in art such as modeling, texture, and picture.
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Other

The Worldwide Art Gallery: Still Life

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site has a basic description of still-life art with several famous examples from great painters.

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