ArtEd Online.Figures and portraits are an integral part of every art curriculum so there is a definite need for resources about them. One site rich in historical context is the National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery can refer to:
Premiering February 5, 1938 with the life of Andrew Jackson, the show featured dramatic biographical profiles of such famed figures as Walt Whitman (February 25, 1938), Mark Twain (approximately 65,000 records). They may also download teaching materials from subjects as diverse as Rosa Parks Noun 1. Rosa Parks - United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913) Parks , Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley. Other Museum-Based Resources * The Delaware Art Museum Founded in 1912, the Delaware Art Museum holds a world-renowned collection of more than 12,000 works focusing on American art and illustration from the 19th to the 21st century as well as the English Pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-19th century. Portrait Pack is an extensive online teacher's guide developed by the Wilmington, Delaware museum and available at www.delart.com/Teach Pack/por_tocpage.htm. * The Utah Museum of Fine Arts The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is located on the University of Utah's campus close to Rice-Eccles Stadium. Works of art are displayed on a rotating basis. External links
Elementary Resources * Lessons on Portraiture offers seven lessons sequenced from kindergarten to fifth grade and includes a reading list for kids. The lessons are posted at http://grove.ufl.edu/~rolandc/courses/elem_methods/lessons/menu.html * Complementary Color Portraits from Kinderart, available at www.kinderart. com/drawing/complimentportrait.htm, is intended for grades K-6 and includes recommendations for related children's books. * The PBS Kids Democracy Project presents Painting Presidential Portraits, an opportunity for students to express themselves through art and creative writing as they design new U.S. currency with presidential portraits. It is available at www.fujisan.demon.co.uk/ USPresidents/preslist.htm. * Dick Blick Art Materials Dick Blick Art Materials is a retail and catalog operation that supplies artists and school art programs. It was founded as a mail order business by Dick Blick in 1911 and purchased by Robert Metzenberg in 1948. provides Watercolor Self-Portraits Lesson Plan at its site, www.dickblick.com/ lessonplans/selfportraits Secondary Resources * An intriguing site is The Figure Drawing Lab from R. M. Larmann that is intended as an anatomical resource for artists and art students who work with the human form. Though there is a little indistinct in·dis·tinct adj. 1. Not clearly or sharply delineated: an indistinct pattern; indistinct shapes in the gloom. 2. Faint; dim: indistinct stars. 3. full frontal nudity The term "full frontal nudity" may refer to:
* About.com offers a page of links to tutorials and resources on How To Draw Figures and Facial Features at http://drawsketch.miningco.com/ hobbies/drawsketch/cs/figuresfaces. * Sculpture: How to Create a Portrait in Clay illustrates the process with sequential photographs at www.borsheimarts.com/lessons/juanbust.htm |
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