From site: Meet Raoudi, artist Henri Matisse’s perky schnauzer, in Matisse for Kids, a delightful on-line exploration of the beloved 20th century master’s bold, bright paintings. Along the way, you’ll earn props, patterns, and colors to use in creating your own Matisse-inspired artwork.
Explore Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art offers two interactives to help students explore modern art, The Country Dog Gentlemen Travel to Extraordinary Worlds and SFMOMA ArtScope.
- The Country Dog Gentlemen Travel to Extraordinary Worlds – In this interactive feature, canine characters from Roy De Forest’s playful painting Country Dog Gentlemen take you on adventures to learn about famous artworks in SFMOMA’s collection. Make your own masterpieces with activities inspired by Jackson Pollock, Frida Kahlo, and other artists.
- The SFMOMA ArtScope, a visual browsing tool that allows you to explore more than 6,400 pieces of art in their collection.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
From site: Welcome to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists.
The permanent collection comprised of more than 3,000 works provides a comprehensive survey of art by women from the 16th century to the present, with new acquisitions added regularly. The work in the collection represents a wide range of styles and mediafrom the Renaissance paintings of Elisabetta Sirani to modern photographs by Barbara Morgan to Louise Nevelson’s contemporary sculptures. NMWA also has several important special collections, including silver by 18th and 19th-century Irish and English women silversmiths.
Destination Modern Art
Destination: Modern Art, from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA,) is a site for kids ages 5-8. Their interactive online gallery give kids the opportunity to learn more about some of MoMA’s collection in depth, as well as works at its affiliate, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. The interactives provide kids online and at-home activities to play with art and create their own.
Smarthistory
From site: Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smARThistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon after, we embedded the audio files in our online survey courses. The response from our students was so positive that we decided to create a multi-media survey of art history web-book. We created audios and videos about works of art found in standard art history survey texts, organized the files stylistically and chronologically, and added text and still images.