Related pages :

Art in Civilization :
Galleries and Museums - Murals - Myths and Legends

Colours - Tattoos - Body

Vocabulary :

• Multimedia Art Glossary
  (hbschool.com)
  "provides audio support for the text in addition to visual images"
  5 grades
  Recommended by Larry Ferlazzo

  

• Art - Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur les images. - avec son
  (languageguide.org)

• A glossary (artsmia.org)

• Art glossary (warhol.org)

• Artistic alphabet - with animals
  (bemboszoo.com)
  
  

• A Work of Art (How to understand a work of art) - analyse très complète! (library.thinkquest)

• Art Cars - examples
  (artcars.com)
  
  

Listening :

• Multimedia Art Glossary
  (hbschool.com)
  "provides audio support for the text in addition to visual images"
  5 grades
  Recommended by Larry Ferlazzo

  

   

• Audio slideshow: Blake's 'Informal Panorama'
  

  "The artist Quentin Blake - best known for his illustrations in Roald Dahl's children's books - has unveiled a 70-foot-long work celebrating the 800th anniversary of Cambridge University.

  On display at Addenbrooke's Hospital - and in his own distinctive style - Quentin Blake's mural depicts famous alumni from centuries past.
  Take a guided tour with the artist himself."
  (BBC)
  
  

• Art - Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur les images. - avec son
  (languageguide.org)

• The Metropolitan Museum
  (Rodolphe Maurel - Soundguide)

  

• CyberMuse with interactive games
  - thematic explorations of the permanent collection
  - contextual aids such as chronological maps and glossary terms
  - lesson plans
  - in-class activities
  (cybermuse.gallery.ca)

  

INTERACTIVE activities :

• Go West, Young Artist. (alifetimeofcolor.com) - LIEN MODIFIE
  "It's 1870, and explorers and artists are discovering the wonders of the American West.
  Travel westward and meet six landscape artists to learn the basics of landscape composition."
  
  

• The Art of Crime Detection. (alifetimeofcolor.com) - LIEN MODIFIE
  "You witness a crime, and the police ask you to help identify the culprit, using their new PDArtist tool.
  Learn how your left and right brain work and the best ways to use your brain as an artist.
  Can you create composite portraits that help identify the culprit?"
  
  

• What were they doing?
  "Watch this mural carefully then play the 2 games."
  Created by Renée Maufroid (Ac. Lille)
  

  "In the 30s, The United States government, through the Works Progress Administration, commissioned artists across the country to paint murals on public buildings, such as post offices and libraries. This one can be seen in San Francisco" :

  

• "Going to" with Norman Rockwell.
  "First watch the video and read the sentences, then click on "play the game" and do the 6 activities."
  Created by Renée Maufroid (Ac. Lille)

  

• Interactives : Science - Language - History - Art
  (learner.org)

• Edward Hopper
  "Look at the video and enjoy Hopper's Art...
  Now you can begin the activity. Look at the paintings from the slideshow and match the description of the painting with its name. Good luck!"
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

• CyberMuse with interactive games
  - thematic explorations of the permanent collection
  - contextual aids such as chronological maps and glossary terms
  - lesson plans
  - in-class activities
  (cybermuse.gallery.ca)

  

• Norman Rockwell
  "Watch the video and look at Norman Rockwell's works. When you are through you will have to find the name of 11 paintings. You will be given either a short description or a little picture to help you find the painting. All of them are in the first 8 pages of the gallery.
  Good luck!"
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

• Impressionism - a quiz and fun activities (telfairartyfacts.org)

• Describing a Picture (Glen Canyon Dam by Norman Rockwell) -
  Gap-Fill Exercise by Barbara Dieu
  
  

• The Art Zone - interactive art that you can make online (nga.gov)
  Collage Machine " Mobile " PixelFace " 3-D Twirler " Cubits " Diamonds " RiverRun " Paintbox
  
  

Activities TO PRINT :

• Looking at Portraits - Click on Art / Planning & Resources
  (Primary Resources)

  

• 'How to describe a picture' à partir du document : a painting by Norman Rockwell.
  - une grille critériée d'aide à la rédaction et à l'évaluation
  Niveau : 4ème
  envoyée par Françoise Chapellier (Ac. de La Réunion)

  

• THE GOLDEN RULE by Norman Rockwell 1894-1978 with a worksheet
  (gardenofpraise.com)

• Irish Murals - Which is which? (chaternet.eu)

  

Lesson plans :

• PROJET ARCIMBOLDO
  (Marie-Claire Renard - Belgique)
  
  Pendant l’année 2008-2009, 5 classes ont travaillé de concert sur le « projet langues » présenté à la journée Portes Ouvertes :
  les 1e Dif, les 1e R Ndls L 1, les 2 classes de 2e R Ndls L1 et les 3e R anglais L2.

  L’instigateur du projet : ARCIMBOLDO, peintre de la Renaissance italienne, principalement renommé pour ses figures maniéristes composées de fleurs, fruits, coquillages etc.

  Le but final du travail : la réalisation d’un mini-dictionnaire illustré reprenant tout un vocabulaire de base destiné à des débutants ...

  

• Studying paintings (Ac. Paris) -
  "Cette séquence propose, pas à pas, l'étude et la comparaison de deux
  Suvres d'Edward Hopper : Night Shadows (1921) et Nighthawks (1942).
  Il s'agit de sensibiliser les élèves à la démarche de description d un document visuel, en l occurrence une
  Suvre picturale, de comparer deux
  Suvres d un même peintre et de mettre en place des termes techniques relatifs à l art.
  Le projet comprend la présentation de la séquence, les documents iconographiques utilisés qui pourront être présentés aux élèves sur un transparent, la démarche pédagogique détaillée accompagnée de propositions de correction et deux worksheets pour les élèves..
  Les exercices peuvent être faits en laboratoire multimédia ou sur papier, selon les possibilités de chacun."

• WARHOL "POP ART" PORTRAITS (kinderart.com)
  Objectives:
  Students will gain an understanding of Andy Warhol's work and the origins of "Pop Art".
  Students will also learn techniques in the correct placement of facial features.
  
  
  
  
  
  

INTERACTIVE games :

• Van Gogh's bedroom in Arles : "Watch the presentation. Then play the game."
  Created by Renée Maufroid (Ac. Lille)

  

• Warhol's World - interactive game about his life
  (qag.qld.gov.au)

• A. Pintura: Art Detective

  

  Teacher Resources
  "A. Pintura: Art Detective is an online game about art history and art composition.
  In the game, you play a 1940's noir detective with a degree in art history.
  A distraught woman asks you to identify the artist who made a painting she found in her grandfather's attic.
  To do so, you must examine paintings by famous artists from Gauguin to Van Gogh.
  Each example highlights an art concept such as composition, style or subject.
  The story concludes with an appropriate noirish twist, as the woman's true identity and motives become apparent..."

• Mr. Picassohead - Créer une tête "à la Picasso" (mrpicassohead.com)
  - View Gallery

  

• Renaissance Artists Word Search (surfnetkids.com)
  
  

Conversation questions :

• Art (iteslj.org)

Webquests :

• ART Treasure Hunt to "explore the World Wide Web for information about art and artists"
  (woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk)

• OPHELIA by Sir John Everett MILLAIS - a webquest - Niveau : 4ème / 3ème
  (Francis Henné - Ac. Nancy-Metz)

  

• The Art Gallery - a webquest created by Renée Maufroid (quia.com)
  "You are going to visit a gallery with beautiful and famous pictures...
  Using the Internet links below, find the answers to the questions."

• The Pre-Raphaelites (Ac. Nancy-Metz)
  une webquest préparée par Francis HENNE pour 4ème europe
  Objectifs : civilisation, recherche sur la période victorienne.
  
  
  

   

Songs :

• Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) - sung by Don McLean :
  "Starry, starry night.
  Paint your palette blue and grey,
  Look out on a summer's day,
  With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
  Shadows on the hills,
  Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
  Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
  In colors on the snowy linen land..."
  

  - with the VIDEO (YouTube)
  "A slideshow of Vincent Van Gogh's work set to the song "Vincent" by Don McLean."

  

  
  
  
• Heavy On My Heart by Anastacia :
  "If I could paint a picture of this melody
  It would be a violin without its strings
  And the canvas in my mind
  Sings the songs I left behind
  Like pretty flowers and a sunset"

Videos :

• Grandma Moses
  "Watch the presentation, you can see it full screen if you wish. Then play the game." 
  Created by Renée Maufroid (Ac. Lille)

  

• Batman's Alley
  "Groovy graffiti alley in Sao Paulo"
  (YouTube)

  
  
  Sao Paulo unleashes Brazilian creative energy
  "It is known Batman's Alley and on Google Maps it looks like any of the hundreds of narrow inner streets that twist and turn within Sao Paulo's blocks."
  (BBC)

  

• Still Life - Shaun the Sheep
  "A children's series from Aardman Animations and a former character in Wallace and Gromit."
  (YouTube)
  
  

• Women in art
  500 years of female portraits in Western art condensed in a three minute morphing video.
  (YouTube)

  

• Street art in London
  (Daily Motion)

  

• George Bush Art by Phil Hansen - with a video
  "This picture of President George W. Bush was made with the names of Coalition soldiers that died in the Iraq war."

  

Cartoons :

• History of Art (wolfescape.com)

  

Literature :

• 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (Ac. Nancy-Metz)