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Activities:

Have students choose an artist who particularly interests them. Explore his or her life in more depth with a trip to the library
and a visit to some links.

Invite a local children’s book artist to come and talk about a typical work day. Ask him or her to explain techniques and to
share knowledge and opinions about famous artists in history.

If possible, arrange for a class trip to a fine arts gallery or art museum.  Look for techniques and themes in art history that tie in
with Lives of the Artists.

Create a Classroom Museum, The Smithsonian Institute
http://educate.si.edu/resources/lessons/collect/crecla/crecla01.htm

Take a trip to a virtual museum:

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/

Metropolitan Museum, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/

Louvre Museum, Paris
http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org/

Tate Gallery, London
http://www.tate.org.uk/

National Museum of American Art
http://www.nmaa.si.edu/

For looking up artworks on the web:
Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html
A database of more than 7000 artists listed by alphabet, etc.

For a collection of other Alphabetized Fine Art Image Links:
http://newcrit.art.wmich.edu/ (click "Links: Image Sites")
 

Have students research Impressionism and the significant artists of this period.  Group reports might include the life, times, and work of individuals such as Manet, Monet, Cassatt, and Renoir—as well as student watercolors painted after reviewing art by the famous Impressionists.  (Check out more activities like this one on the “Curricular Connections” page for Lives of the Artists on the Audio Bookshelf website at  http://www.audiobookshelf.com/loart_cc.html)

Harcourt study guide section on Artists

Approximately 38 things to do with biographies in the classroom
 
 

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