You are a member of an elite group of museum curators for a travelling art exhibit that is coming to your school. Your job is to research and acquire the artworks you will display in the show.
Your Mission is to leap into the life of a famous artist. Find out as much as possible about your artist including early life, daily life, talents, subjects and style of painting.
1. Acquaint yourself with various artists.
2. Look at different paintings from different time periods.
3. Select one artist to showcase and produce a web page on him/her.
4. Produce an online drawing.
You will be working with two or three other museum curators to produce an exhibit with an overall theme of your choice. In addition, each curator will be an expert on a different artist, and will choose between three and ten works of art that are good examples of their artists work. When the exhibit is opened to the public, the works of art will be displayed with your research as well as one of your own works of art.
Artists
Portraits From The Past
Help Carmine send the characters back to their own paintings. To send them back, you have to figure out who these people are and when and where they lived! Off you go.
An Art History Game
I yawned and rubbed my eyes. I tried to focus on the wall of paintings in front of me. My feet were killing me. I'd rather be anywhere — outside, playing with my friends, even brushing my teeth — anywhere but this art museum. Find out what happens.
Select an Artist
Choose an artist from the list. Start collecting your information about this artist. You may use paper or a computer program eg. Inspiration for your notes. Remember to use dot points. Do not write or copy sentences. This worksheet will help you to cover all the main points.
Select the Paintings
Choose between three and ten works of art that are good examples from your artist. Why have you selected these works of art? Use the worksheet to help you
Need some more help? Have a look at this site. You do not need to answer all these questions but they make help you in describing your paintings.
Online drawing
Produce an original online drawing. Go to this site. When you are happy with your original art work press the "print screen" button on the keyboard. Click "Start. All Programs, Accessories, Paint". Go to edit, and select Paste. Crop the picture and save it to "My Pictures".
Using Frontpage make a web site using your notes on the artist and the selected art works. Import the paintings as thumbnails. Make sure your first name (no surnames) and room number appear on you page.
Include your own piece of art with a description.
