Sixth graders create examples of expressionistic paintings using pastels, black paper, and chalk in this 6th grade Art instructional activity. Emphasis is on creating an emotion for the painting using simple lines and large shapes and...

Students select a person whom they admired and get a picture of that person. Then they go through a lesson on creating and using grids. They learned how to properly use a grid to increase the scale when they create a drawing.

Learners create individual works of art using cow cut-outs as their canvas in this hilarious instructional activity ideal for the High School Art or Art History classroom. The instructional activity includes resource links and can be...

Students will examine Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits and letters to better understand the artist's life story and personality. They will paint two Van Gogh-style self-portraits to show two parts of their own personality and write a...

This is the home page of the Fine Art Museum in Basel, Switzerland. You can browse through the artworks in the collection online. Among the paintings on exhibit are ones by such renowned artists as Picasso, Gauguin, Monet, and Van Gogh....

This site offers paintings by famous artists with some information about each of them, followed by a language arts lesson. They include the following: Van Gogh (reflexive pronouns), Seurat (-ight), Gauguin (-ou), Chagall (opposites),...

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