Art Homework

CREATIVE ARTS: Looking at Art ~  Art of Other Times & Cultures ~ Artists ~
About Music ~ Dance ~ Stories & Plays 
LITERARY ARTS:  Reading ~  Writing ~ Speaking ~ Speaking 

LOOKING AT ART:

A. Pintura: Art Detective
http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/index.html
Help A. Pintura solve the "Case of Grandpa's Painting" by analyzing the subject, composition, and style of a painting.

ArtLex - visual arts dictionary
http://www.artlex.com/
Dictionary of over 3,300 terms for art materials and techniques - from abbozzo to zinc white.

ArtsNet Minnesota: Themes
http://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/theme.html
Explore themes of identity, environment, spaces and places, inner worlds, and the meaning of art through  more than 50 works of art in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

FAMSF - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
http://www.thinker.org/
Has tutorials on American and African art and images of over 75,000 works of art in the Legion of Honor and the de Young museums.

Inside Art: An Art History Game
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html
A visitor to an art museum gets pulled into a painting by Van Gogh and learns about it "Inside Art" from a fish named Trish.
 

ART OF OTHER TIMES & CULTURES:

Architecture Design (Great Buildings Online)
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc.html
Search by name of building (e.g.. Parthenon), architect (e.g.. Frank Lloyd Wright), or place (e.g.. Minnesota) for links to  photos, floor plans, 3-D models, and detailed information about the construction of hundreds of the world's greatest buildings.

Art History Resources on the Web
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Browse for information about and examples of art work from different time periods, art movements, or countries.

Looking At Art of Ancient Greece and Rome
http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Resources/Beauty/index.html
Has photos and brief descriptions of the sculpture of ancient Greece and Rome - also lists Greek and Roman gods and goddesses.

Mpls Inst Arts
http://www.artsmia.org/permanent/index.htm.
Remember 2,000 when you search or browse the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collection of over 100,000 works of art from around the world. You can find images of more than 2,000 of the paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, textiles, and other works of art, from 2000 B.C. to 2000 A.D., online.

Smithsonian American Art Museum
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/index.html
Trace America's history through its art - from Colonial to Contemporary times - in over 4,000 images from the Museum of American Art.

WebMuseum: Famous Paintings Exhibition
http://homer.cnyric.org/jh/webmuseum.htm
Provides a "Glossary" of painting styles and a "Themes Index" to paintings from different countries and time periods.

World Art Treasures
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/
Explore works of art from the "Tomb of Ramose" to "Art from Egypt, China, Japan, India, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar/Burma" in these 17 guided tours of the world of art.
 
 

ARTISTS:

Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Brief information about over 7,500 artists, including their birth and death dates, nationality, and links to museums and galleries that have works by this artist. Also has image archives showing samples of the artist's works.

Artist of the Month Home Page
http://www.kean.edu/~decoite/artist/artist.html
Links to information about these artists and their works: Miro, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Munch, Monet, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Haring, Dali, Van Gogh, Escher, and Picasso.

Explore Monet's World
http://www.mfa.org/monetsworld/
Biographical information about French painter, Claude Monet, and fact sheets about four of his paintings.

MSU Library: Joyce Kozloff's Ceramic Artwork
http://www.lib.mankato.msus.edu/News/Kozloff.html
Ceramic artist Joyce Kozloff combines design motifs and street maps from twelve cities "Around the World on the 44th Parallel". The ceramic tiles can be viewed at Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato.

National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/collection/srchart.htm
Provides information about some of the greatest artists of each era, discusses their philosophy, and lists examples of their work.

Web Museum - Artist Index
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/
Biographical sketches and images of the works of more than 200 noted artists.
 
 

ABOUT MUSIC:

All-Music Guide - Pop Music Styles
http://www.allmusic.com/mus_Styles.html
How are the Delta Blues different from the Chicago Blues?  What is "World Fusion"? Which country artists were popular in the 30's? These questions and others about artists, albums, songs, styles, and labels are answered by AMG.

Classical Music Pages
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/
Classical Music Pages includes a short history of Western music, biographical sketches of classical composers, and information about musical forms and periods.

Essentials of Music
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
Divided into three parts, this site provides a glossary of 200 musical terms (a cappella to zither), biographies of 70 classical composers, and descriptions of music in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and modern eras.

Historic American Sheet Music
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
What happened in 1911? Search or browse this database of sheetmusic published between 1850 and 1920 for the most popular songs of the era. Historical events, inventions, discoveries, best-selling novels, companies founded during the period, and sports firsts for each decade are listed here.

MHN Instrument Encyclopedia
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/enclpdia.html
Background information about percussion, string, wind, and electronic instruments from around the world.

Piano Education Page - Just For Kids
http://www.unm.edu/~loritaf/pnokids.html
Find out about Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Liszt, Schubert, Brahms, and Haydn through "Meet the Composer" interviews, then listen to "Their Cool Music".
 
 

DANCE:

C.K. Ladzekpo - African Music and Dance
http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.EDU/~ladzekpo/
Video clips of West African dance and an online course in Ewe dance-drumming.

Dance Sheets
http://www.tcnj.edu/~kirkwood/dance.html
Dance steps for eight country western dances.

Library of Swing Steps
http://www.swingcraze.com/ussds/steps.html
Look here for instructions on ballroom dancing including the waltz, foxtrot and swing, and the steps for round dancing, country western, and more.

PowWows.com
http://www.powwows.com/dancing/index2.html
Shows photos of costumes and tells about dances performed at Pow Wows.
 

STORIES & PLAYS:

Dramatic Exchange: Catalog of Plays
http://www.dramex.org/htmlplays.html
Scroll down for links to the full-text of one-act plays, children's theatre, musicals, and other plays by playwrights who want to show off their dramatic works.

From Story to Stage
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/Tips.html
Children's writer Aaron Shephard offers tips for scripting, staging, and reading children's plays.

Online Literature Library - Aesop - Fables
http://www.literature.org/authors/aesop/fables/
Over 300 short fables, including "The Grasshopper and the Ants", "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" and "The Hare and the Tortoise", can be found here.

Puppet Manipulation Skills
http://www.axtell.com/manip.html
Steve Axtell explains how to use eye contact, plus head and mouth movements to make puppets come alive.

Reader's Theater Scripts for Younger Students
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/readersmine.htm
Two scripts for children's plays, "The Little Red Hen" and "Three Billy Goats Gruff", by Inez Ramsey.

Stage Hand Puppets * Activity Page*
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/onstage/puppets/activity/index.html
Learn how to make puppets from paper and cloth, get tips on putting on a puppet play, read puppet plays by other kids, and find out how to "throw your voice" at this site.

Writing Puppet Scripts
http://www.legendsandlore.com/puppetscript.html
Tells how to use the 4 W's - who, what, where, and wrong! - to write a puppet play.
 
 

READING:

Children's Book Council - About Authors & Illustrators
http://www.cbcbooks.org/html/archives.html
Find biographical information about dozens of authors and illustrators or click on "Author/Illustrator Links" for links to the web pages of nearly 200 authors and illustrators of children's books - including Jan Brett's always fun page!

Literary Menagerie
http://home.olemiss.edu/~egcash/
An A to Z listing of websites about authors and their literary works. Includes modern authors like Edward Abbey and Roger Zelazny and classical authors like Jane Austen and William Wordsworth.

Literary Resources - American
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
Links to webpages about American authors, literary time periods, and electronic texts.

Online Literature Library
http://www.literature.org/authors/
L. Frank Baum's "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz", Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Edgar Rice Burrough's "Tarzan of the Apes", Jack London's "Call of the Wild", Lucy Maud Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables", Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", and Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer", are just a few of the literary classics to read online at this site.

Penguin Putnam Inc. Books
http://www.penguinputnam.com/Book/BookFrame?0399236015
Click on "Authors & Illustrators", then on "Author Bios" for links to biographical information about nearly 300 authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults.

SparkNotes: Literature
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/.dir/
Similar to Cliff Notes, but more detailed, SparkNotes has chapter by chapter guides to over 250 literary classics, ranging from George Orwell's 1984 to the plays of William Shakespeare and to Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

VoS English Literature - Main Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html
Links to webpages about the literature of American, Australian, British, Canadian, South African, and other English-speaking countries from Anglo-Saxon times to the present.
 
 

WRITING:

Guide For Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association Documentation
http://cctc.commnet.edu/mla.htm
Explains how to gather information, take notes, outline, quote, cite sources, and organize the paper.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Offers sentence-level, paragraph-level, and essay-level help with writing and grammar, including how to diagram sentences, use commas properly, develop paragraphs, and make transitions between paragraphs. Also has the full-text of Principles of Composition.

Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides
http://bailiwick. lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html
Links to sites that tell how to cite sources in approved APA, Chicago, Lexis/ Nexis, MLA, and Turabian styles.

Writing Guides Index
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/wrtstr.htm
Links to directions for organizing a term paper and to writing literary, expository, and persuasive essays.
 
 

SPEAKING:

2000-2001 High School Debate Topic Online: Privacy
http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/kulib/docs/debate2000.html
Has links to information that may be useful in debating whether "the United States federal government should significantly increase protection of privacy in one or more of the following areas: employment, medical records, consumer information, search and seizure."

Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking Website
http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/
Tips on deciding on the type of speech to give, determining who the audience is, researching the topic, organizing and writing the speech, and presenting it.

Great American Speeches
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/
Click on "Speech Archives" for the text of more than 90 great American speeches - from 1895-1999.

Nonverbal Q & A
http://socpsych.lacollege.edu/givens.html
Discusses body language and how to interpret it.

On-Line English Grammar
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm
Learn proper usage of adjectives, adverbs, nouns, possessives, determiners, pronouns, and verbs.

Virtual Presentation Assistant
http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/vpa/vpa.htm
A guide to giving a speech that includes determining the purpose of your speech, selecting and researching it, analyzing your audience, outlining major points in your speech and giving supporting evidence, using visual aids, and actually presenting the speech.