Art

[|The Artist's Toolkit] This website covers many topics. Artists use visual elements and principles like line, color and shape as tools to build works of art. Each title below has three sections: Watch an animated demonstration, Find examples of the concept in works of art from museums, Create your own composition. You can also access videos of artists, but the video is very small. Also check out the visual encyclopedia.

[|Google Art Project] (Weblink) Tour famous art museums from around the world and see their collections.

[|Denver Art Museum] (Weblink) Find lesson plans and ideas. Look through art images that can be sorted by country, media, period or region.

[|What's Cute?] (Weblink) Interact with a cat, a face, and a hammer to see how to make them cuter. It's easy, quick, and fun!

[|Interactive Art Zone] (Weblink) Interactive art you can make online. From the National Gallery of Art.

[|Landscape Perspectives] (Weblink) Use different interactive tools to learn about landscape perspectives.

[|Art Tints and Shades] (Weblink) This flipchart describes color value and the differences between tints and shades. It provides examples, websites and questions for review.

[|Compositional Diagraming & The Elements of Art] (Flipchart) The goal of this lesson is to show students how painters use the elements of art - line, shape, value, texture, color, space, form - to create works of art. For each example the students must answer the questions of what subject matter is being portrayed, how the painting was designed and why it was made (content). A key part of the lesson is to have the students diagram structure lines on the images included in the lesson.

[|Matching - Art] (Flipchart) Flip and match the artworks. Also, review the artist too.

[|WebMuseum, Paris] (Weblink) An index to many artists with information about each artist and examples of many of their works.

[|World Visit Guide] (Weblink) Visit many world museums and their collections. Also included are many famous sites and architecture from around the world.

[|Art Resource] (Weblink) Art Resource, the world’s largest photo archive of fine art, offers a range of material from prehistoric times to the present. We carry the works of almost every major museum in Europe, and function as the official rights and permissions representative for many institutions in the United States and abroad.

[|Artist Index] (Weblink) An index to artists and their works.

[|Free Rice - Guess the Artist] (Weblink) Shows artwork by famous artists with multiple choice answers. Be sure to change the subject to art if it is not on art already.