Knowledge: artists
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- All About Art - Famous Artists
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001159/famart.htm - Includes some well known artist with short biographies and a list of famous paintings for each.
- About Scott Adams
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/news_and_history/html/about_scott_adams.html - The cartoonist who created the Dilbert comic strip tells about his own life.
- Wyeth Center at Farnsworth Museum
http://farnsworthmuseum.org/wyeth/wyeth.html - The Wyeth family has produced three generations of artists and illustrators. Brief biographies are presented here of N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) who illustrated children's books, Andrew Wyeth (born 1917), and Jamie Wyeth (born 1946).
- My Hero: Artists
http://myhero.com/myhero/go/directory/directory.asp?dir=artist - Short student-friendly biographies of more than two dozen painters, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, actors and designers who have shared their talents with the world.
- Poussin, Nicolas
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0839938.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a brief biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0850601.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides information covering the life and works of the Spanish painter. Includes bibliography and pronunciation key.
- Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton
http://www.gardenofpraise.com/art40.htm - Information about the famous painting, a short biography and activity sheet for children.
- The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt
http://www.gardenofpraise.com/art35.htm - Information about the famous painting, a short biography and activity sheet for children.
- NGA Classroom: Calder Close-Up (1898 - 1976)
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/counting_on_art/bio_calder.shtm - Information about the American artist who created many works of art including paintings, jewelry, stage sets, mobiles and stabiles.
- Museum of Art Masters
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/art/arthome.htm - Read about eleven of the greatest artists of all time. Biographies researched and written by the students of Kyrene de las Brisas Elementary.
- Thomas Moran
http://www.ellensplace.net/moran.html - Consists of an illustrated article on the British landscape artist's life and work.
- Joan Miro (1893-1983)
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~lanes/english/hemngway/miro.htm - Short biography for the Spanish painter, ceramist, and sculptor from Hemingway's Paris.
- Paolo Uccello
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/paolouccello.html - A short biography of the Renaissance artist prepared by Kaleena and Meghan, Grade 8, Riverdale Junior Secondary School.
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/bio_arcimboldo.html - Short biography about the Italian artist's life and paintings.
- Josef Albers
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/bio_albers.html - Short biography about the artist-teacher with a strong interest in color theory.
- Encarta: African American Artists
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761587467_1/African_Americans.html - Tells about Africans and their descendants have contributed to the visual arts, producing some of America's finest paintings, sculptures, collages, prints, and other works.
- Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0819408.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography abou the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Frankenthaler, Helen
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0819473.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the American painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Gentileschi, Artemisia
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0820505.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Tuscan painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Giacometti, Alberto
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0820730.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Swiss sculptor and painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Hiroshige
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0823795.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Japanese painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0825221.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Klimt, Gustav
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0827898.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Austrian painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Léger, Fernand
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0829281.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Ma Yüan
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0832368.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Chinese painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Magritte, René
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0831188.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography abou the Belgian surrealist painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Modigliani, Amedeo
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0833547.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Italian painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Mondrian, Piet
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0833698.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Dutch painter. Includes bibliography and pronunciation key.
- Moore, Henry
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0833929.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the English sculptor.
- Morisot, Berthe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0834050.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French impressionist painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Nevelson, Louise
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0835341.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the American sculptor.
- Rauschenberg, Robert
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0841216.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides information a short biography about the American painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Vuillard, Édouard
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0851200.html - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter and lithographer. Includes a pronunciation key.
- Milev, Ivan
http://www.ivan-milev.com - Representative of Bulgarian Modernism. Biography and a gallery of works.
- Jasper Johns
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/john/hd_john.htm - Biography of the abstract expressionist painter born in Augusta, Georgia.
- Street to Studio: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat/street-to-studio/ - Information about the painter and his paintings including gallery and biography. Paint and print out a painting with the virtual studio and see art created by other visitors.
- Josef Albers
http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/albers_bio.html - Biography and works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
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