Ideas and Resources to support a Primary Project about artists using the Internet. Ideas
There have been many famous artists and many different styles of paintings from the time of cave paintings to the present day. People have always enjoyed having attractive and challenging images around them. We can also learn much from art about the lives and ideas of people at different times throughout history.
Children can find out about artists from a range of resources, including stories, information books, television and film and now by using a computer to look at CD-ROMs and the World Wide Web.
The Resources section lists useful examples of books and software and the Links section points to valuable World Wide Web sites.
Starting from questions.
Below are many questions which could be used as the starting point for children's enquiries into different aspects of the lives of artists.
Some of the issues raised here are covered in the Hands-on section.
Here is a list of the artists featured in this project.
- Pablo Picasso
- Vincent van Gogh
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Andy Warhol
- Salvadore Dali
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Claude Monet
- Joseph Turner
Questions to ask about each person
- When was he born?
- Where was he born?
- Where was he educated?
- Where did he study art and who was his teacher?
- Did he have any form of employment?
- What was his style of painting called?
- What is his most famous painting?
- Can you name any other works?
- Is he known for anything else?
- What different styles of painting have there been?
- Which artists worked in the various styles?
- Did any artist produce work in more than one style
- Why are there relatively few famous women artists?
There are many other artists whose whose works we still value today. Some of them are listed below. Choose one and see what you can find out about him.
- Henri Matisse
- Edvard Munch
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Paul Klee
- Max Ernst
- Rene Magrittes
- Jackson Pollock
- Michelanglo
- Hieronymous Bosch
- El Greco
- Raphael
- Paul Gauguin
- Caravaggio
- Paul Rubens
- Anthony van Dyck
- Diego Valezquez
- William Hogarth
- Joh Constable
- Paul Cezanne
- Auguste Renoir
- Edgar Degas
- Sandro Botticelli
These are just some of the many artists who are well known. You might like to choose one of your own
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