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PBS Parents: Matisse Cut-Outs

So, studying Henri Matisse in Art History isn’t engaging your students?  Try using netTrekker’s refinement menu for Interactive Media. netTrekker can help you find sites that get your students actively involved in learning and creating their own “Matisse like” work.  For example, today’s Site of the Day features a simple, fun game for young learners that allows them to create a design inspired by the work of artist Henri Matisse. Students get to learn about layering, manipulating shapes and other elements of art and design.

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Tags: art, history, Matisse, site of the day

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: John Constable: Malvern Hall

Today’s Site of the Day features video commentary on a characteristic Constable landscape, with insightful remarks about how the painting is lit. This is one of sixteen video commentaries on primarily 19th century paintings, all of which are available from a link on this page.

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Tags: art, history, paintings, site of the day

Louvre: A Closer Look: “The Virgin and Child with Chancellor Rolin” by Van Eyck

What are all the details you miss when you look at a painting?  Get a closer look with the Louvre at the Virgin and Child painting, and you will be amazed at the details that are revealed and what they mean!

Today’s Site of the Day features a full-featured exploration of the portrait of the Virgin and Child by Van Eyck. With insightful descriptions, analysis, and interpretative commentary, the site leaves you wanting to take a closer look at many other famous paintings to discover their hidden details.

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Tags: art, painting, site of the day, Van Eyck

The Art of Set Design: “The Light in the Piazza”

Today’s Site of the Day features an audio slide show narrated by the set designer for the Tony Award-winning musical “The Light in the Piazza.” The slide show discusses the set designer’s art, as well as inspirations for both the exterior scenes of Florentine piazzas and the interiors of the Uffizi Gallery. Slides include the designer’s drawings and models as well as images from an actual performance!

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Tags: art, musical, site of the day

NPR: From Microscopes to Large-Scale Sculpture

I can remember watching the movie “Fantastic Voyage” and thinking that this journey would never be truly possible and the folks who designed the sets had incredible imaginations. Enter Kendall Buster. She was inspired by that movie… inspired to a point where she took up the study of microbiology and art.

In today’s Site of the Day, National Public Radio makes the connection between art and science by exploring Kendalls sculptures.   There is a great audio file interview with microbiologist-turned-artist Kendall Buster. Buster uses the images she sees through a microscope as inspiration to create her monumental sculptures, which can be walked through and experienced as three-dimensional  worlds.  Now THAT is truly a fantastic voyage!

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Tags: art, science, site of the day

ArtDaily

The richly illustrated ArtDaily publishes art world news, with special emphasis on what is going on at leading art museums, galleries, and auction houses around the world.  Find your city or museum and see what they have going on!  Other entertaining areas in this Site of the Day include the PhotoGalleries and ArtDaily puzzles.

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Tags: art, site of the day

Huntington Library: ArtWonders

Can portraits talk? What’s in a landscape? How do artists make furniture?

ArtWonders helps young learners ask and answer the kinds of questions that make observing art an interactive experience.  This interaction helps students learn how to find the story behind the work of art – now that is what wondering should be about!  Check out the teachers section in today’s Site of the Day for some fantastic ideas on how to use art in the classroom.

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Tags: art, site of the day

The History Teacher: A Lasting Impressionism

Hooray for History!

Check out this National History Day Competition Winner from a Christian School in Ada, Michigan about the history of Impressionism–today’s netTrekker Site of the Day.

Inspiring illustrations  include a series from Monet of Haystacks in different seasons.  The author also nicely points out some of the nuances and aesthetics specific to the Impressionist era in contract to other art traditions.

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Tags: art, history, site of the day