Elementary Art

This is cool. A paint tool for twitter users.

Great art projects, photos & plans

art projects, photos & plans

Moma offers several audio descriptions of art. Audio is short and includes music, art image and is great for elementary students.

Brief biography, web links, lesson plans

Some online art games: picassohead, destination modern art etc.

The Teaching Palette: tutorial on navigating Environmental Art Around Google Earth

"A UNIT ON TIME & EXISTENCE TARGET AGE: 5TH GRADE"

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A French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century.

There's a mathematical ratio commonly found in nature-the ratio of 1 to 1.618-that has many names. Most often we call it the Golden Section, Golden Ratio, or Golden Mean, but it's also occasionally referred to as the Golden Number, Divine Proportion, Golden Proportion, Fibonacci Number, and Phi. You'll usually find the golden ratio depicted as a single large rectangle formed by a square and another rectangle. What's unique about this is that you can repeat the sequence infinitely and perfectly within each section.

This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, shapes, proportional, perspective and much more. We hope that drawing tutorials and techniques in this post will be a great help to you.

Short blurbs explaining the movements, with attractive minimalist posters. Movements include: Expressionism, Post-Impressionism, Dadaism, Cubism, Surrealism, Pop Art, Op Art, Neorealism, Kinetic Art, Abstract Art, Fauvism, De Stijl, Futurism, Abstract Expressionism

art term glossary MOMA

great ideas for contemporary artists to teach with traditional artists!