The renowned painter Elizabeth Murray takes kids on a tour of her studio, explains the use of her tools, shows us some of her favorite paintings and walks us through the creation of her art from inspiration, through sketches to the construction of her unusual three dimensional pieces. She talks of her early interest in art, the support of her family and encourages us all to see art in everyday objects. In a special section she takes us into the Museum of Modern Art in New York where she compares and contrasts paintings by Picasso, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol and others,

Search for artists by name, artworks by title and art museums by name or location.  There are brief descriptions for 8,500 artists, with links to related artists and time periods. 

This searchable directory of art resources is categorized by time period and geographic region.  There are also links to museums worldwide.  From prehistoric to contemporary, and from the Near East to Africa, every culture and time period is represented.  There is also a section on prints and photographs.

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Human vision is like a clock: it works in a very particular way. The exhibit Color Art and Vision teaches students how human vision works and has influenced on Western art.

Art and science are not always an obvious pair. This interdisciplinary study combines the neurobiology of vision and art history. The exhibit focuses on the eye and its response to color interactions and contrasts, luminance and equluminance, and peripheral vision, in reference to artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Bridget Riley and Jim Lambie. Although these artists of different decades and centuries have not always been aware of neurobiology, their exploration of color and vision has enhanced their visual language of representation and demonstrates many neurobiological points about the interaction between color and the eye. The exhibit also explains color theories by scientists such as Isaac Newton, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Michel Chevreul and aims to clarify the impact of different paints such as oil and egg tempera.

These Asian museums have resources for K-12 teachers, students, and their families. For teachers, there are curriculum guides, lab collections you can embed in your presentation or site, “Freer in Focus” talks by docents, providing background on different works in the collection, and videos of some artists at work. Finally, there is (at the time of this writing) Smithsonian X 3D, an experimental 3D viewer of select objects in the collections.

Students and teachers alike can explore works, with descriptions, in the collections which include: American, Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Near Eastern, Arts of the Islamic World, Biblical Manuscripts, Chinese, Contemporary, Japanese, South Asian & Himalayan, Southeast Asian, and Art Across Asia.

One past contemporary exhibition was Xu Bing: Word Play Interact with the art of Chinese artist Xu Bing.   He is a leader in the New Wave Art Movement in China in the late 1980s. These interactives were designed to help visitors engage in Xu Bing’s exhibition, making use of installation sketches, interviews and photographs.