GRADE 7
ARTIST UNIT
The seventh graders are working on artists and their paintings. They will be studying the paintings and looking especially at the color. The following is a list of the artists from which they will choose:
| Pieter Bruegel | Albrecht Durer | Michelangelo (Buonarroti) | Norman Rockwell |
| Mary Cassatt | Thomas Gainsborough | Joan Miro | Peter Paul Rubens |
| Paul Cezanne | Paul Gauguin | Claude Monet | Titian |
| Marc Chagall | Giotto (di Bondone) | Georgia O'Keeffe | Joseph M. W. Turner |
| John Singleton Copley | Francisco Goya | Pablo Picasso | Vincent VanGogh |
| Salvador Dali | Keith Haring | Raphael | Diego Velazquez |
| Leonardo daVinci | Winslow Homer | Rembrandt | Jan Vermeer |
| Edgar Degas | Roy Lichtenstein | Frederic Remington | Jean Antoine Watteau |
| Eugene Delacroix | Edouard Manet | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | James McNeill Whistler |
| Marcel Duchamp | Henri Matisse | Diego Rivera |
Directory Search
The following site is very
helpful to find many of the artists listed above.
It does not, however, list all of them.
Yahoo: Artists: Masters:
Painters
Most of the following sites will
provide both your artist's biography and show his/her works.
| Web Gallery of Art | Loggia: Exploring the History of Art |
| Artchive | Web Museum, Paris |
| CGFA | All About Artists |
| National Gallery of Art | Ask Art (North American artists only) |
| Olga's Gallery : Artist Index | Distinguished Artists Series (only American artists) |
Search
If you cannot find your artist on any of the
pages given above, a search engine may prove helpful. The following search
engine is the best for this unit. Simply type your artist's name in the
space labeled "with the Exact Phrase".
Were you unable to locate the artist's
works? Try these pages.
Virtual Library
Museum Pages - Search - This site allows you to search on-line
museums for works exhibited on the World Wide Web. You may search by the name of the
artist.
Louvre
Tour -- This site will
allow you to view some of the famous paintings which are housed in this museum.
The Museo del
Prado -- a virtual tour
of this museum is available.
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Advanced Image Search |
Thanks to MSDN
Online workshop for providing the artwork for this page.