Art Links

Thoughts on Nudity in Art

Defend Young Minds 

Fight the New Drug 

Talking to Kids about Objectification 

 

Lesson 2 

Prehistoric Art (NOTE: Article contains references to evolution.) 

Make Your Own Cave Art 

Spray Paint with Straws 

 

Prehistoric Cartoons Documentary (NOTE: Documentary includes mentions of evolution.) 

 

Lesson 3 

Paper Mosaic 

Tile Mosaic 

 

Contrapposto Explained (NOTE: Video studies nude sculptures.) 

 

Lesson 4 

Save the World with Beauty Video 

Art for Art's Sake 

 

Classical Orders of Architecture 

The Development of Ancient Greek Architecture 

What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? 


Lesson 5 

Illuminated Letter Step-by-Step Tutorial  

Detailed Illuminated Manuscript Project 

How To Make Illuminated Manuscripts Using Traditional Techniques 

 

Lesson 6 

Christ Pantocrator Divine and Human 

Pantocrator, a Description of the Sinai Christ Icon 

 

The Complex Geometry of Islamic Design 

Basic Islamic Design Tutorial 

Advanced Islamic Design Tutorial (NOTE: This is an Islamic program, and other parts of the episode include readings from the Quran. To watch only the tutorial, begin at the 10-minute mark and end around minute 16.) 

 

Lesson 7 

Making Stained Glass 

Inside the World’s Oldest Stained Glass Workshop 

 

Stained Glass Art Project 

 

Lesson 8 

What Is Foreshortening? 

 

Lesson 9 

Good Government Close-Up 

Bad Government Close-Up 

 

Lorenzetti’s Good and Bad Government (NOTE: Video occasionally briefly shows nude figures.) 

 

Lesson 10 

Art History for Kids: Medieval & Renaissance Art 

Renaissance Video (Advanced) (NOTE: Video shows artwork with nudity.) 

 

Chiaroscuro Forms 

 

Lesson 11 

Donatello Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes sculptures of nude figures.) 

Donatello’s Marble Carving (NOTE: Video includes sculptures of nude figures.) 

Carving Marble with Traditional Tools (NOTE: Video includes sculptures of nude figures.) 

Donatello’s Magdalene (NOTE: Video shows nude sculptures.) 

 

How to Make a Soap Carving 

 

Lesson 12 

St. George and the Dragon 

 

How to Draw One-Point Perspective 

One-Point Perspective with Words 

 

Lesson 13 

Leonardo Mini Bio  

Ken Burns on the Genius of Leonardo da Vinci 

How the Last Supper Was Painted 

Leonardo Documentary (NOTE: Video shows artwork that includes nudity, as well as a brief discussion of Leonardo’s homosexuality.) 

 

St. Anne Bio 

 

Fresco Painting 

The Science of Fresco Painting (NOTE: Video briefly shows artwork that includes nudity.) 

Fresco: Option 1 

Fresco: Option 2 

 

Lesson 14 

Michelangelo & the Sistine Chapel (NOTE: Video includes distant images of the Sistine Chapel with obscured nudity.) 

Michelangelo Mini Bio Part 1 and Part 2 (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes nude figures.) 

 

Creation of Adam Hands - Pen 

Creation Of Adam Hands - Charcoal 

Creation of Adam Hands - Pencil 

 

Painting the Sistine Chapel (NOTE: Video includes nude figures.) 

Michelangelo’s David (NOTE: Video includes nude figures.) 

 

Lesson 15 

Why We Study Art (NOTE: Video includes artwork containing nude figures.) 

How to Look at Art (NOTE: Video includes artwork containing nude figures.) 

 

Lesson 16 

Portrait of Pope Julius II 

How Raphael’s Portrait Changed Portraiture Forever 

The Warrior Pope – National Gallery Lecture 

 

School of Athens 1 (NOTE: Video includes artwork containing nude figures.) 

School of Athens 2 (NOTE: Video includes artwork containing nude figures.) 

 

Lesson 17 

Titian Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

The Titian Painting That’s Been Stolen Twice (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

Titian’s Assumption of the Virgin 

Titian’s Pietà 

 

How Renaissance Artists Were Trained (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

 

Lesson 18 

Sofonisba Anguissola Mini Bio 

Sofonisba Anguissola Article 

 

Lesson 19 

Who Was Caravaggio? 

Supper at Emmaus 1 

Supper at Emmaus 2 

Hidden Symbol in the Supper at Emmaus 

 

Tenebrism (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and violent scenes.) 

 

Lesson 20 

The following videos include nude art and references to sexual violence. They are recommended for older students only.  

Artemisia Gentileschi Mini-Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and violent scenes.) 

Artemisia and the Figure of Judith (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and violent scenes.) 

Analysis of Artemisia’s Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes  

Artemisia and Caravaggio’s Depictions of Judith Slaying Holofernes (NOTE: These paintings depict a violent scene; please preview before viewing/discussing.) 

 

Lesson 21 

Jan van Eyck Mini Bio (NOTE: Video briefly includes biblical artwork with nudity.) 

Jan van Eyck Mini Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.) 

 

Arnolfini Portrait Video 1 

Arnolfini Portrait Video 2 

 

Ghent Altarpiece (NOTE: This article includes artwork with nudity.) 

 

Lesson 22 

Bosch Mini Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity and other possibly disturbing imagery.) 

Dürer Mini Bio  

A Study of Albrecht Dürer 

 

Knight, Death, and the Devil 

 

9 Types of Printmaking 

Dürer’s Woodcuts and Engravings 

How Etchings Are Made 

Make a Collagraph Print 

 

Lesson 23 

Bruegel Mini Bio  

Bruegel’s Works  

Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow  

Bruegel’s Peasant Wedding  

Bruegel’s Tower of Babel  

Bruegel Documentary (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity and occasional imagery that some may find disturbing.) 

 

3D Virtual Tour of Bruegel Gallery 

Inside Bruegel 

 

Lesson 24 

Van Hemessen Mini Bio  

Rubens Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.) 

Rubens’s Daniel in the Lions’ Den  

Rubens’s Descent from the Cross  

Dramatic, Violent and Bold: A Hallmark of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (NOTE: Violent images featured.) 

 

Lesson 25 

Rembrandt Mini Bio  

The Many Faces of Rembrandt (NOTE: Video briefly shows artwork that includes nudity.) 

Lecture on Rembrandt’s Works (Advanced) 

 

How to Draw a Self-Portrait (Simplest) 

How to Draw a Self-Portrait (Step-by-Step) 

Abstract Self-Portraits 

Collage Self-Portraits 

 

Lesson 26 

Leyster Mini Bio  

Vermeer Mini Bio  

Vermeer Mini Bio (Advanced) 

Ruysch Mini Bio 

 

What Is a Still Life? 

Modern-Day Still Lifes 

 

Lesson 27 

El Greco Mini Bio (NOTE: Briefly shows artwork with nudity) 

El Greco Mini Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.) 

 

Federico Ruiz’s Toledo, Spain 

 

Lesson 28 

Introduction to Velázquez (article) 

Pareja Mini Bio  

Velázquez’s Juan de Pareja  

Pareja’s Calling of St. Matthew 

 

What Makes Las Meninas So Captivating?  

Is This the Best Painting in History? (Advanced) 

Velázquez Rediscovered 

 

Lesson 29 

Watteau Mini Bio (NOTE: Video briefly shows artwork with nudity.) 

Watteau’s Pilgrimage to Cythera  

Watteau’s Italian Comedians 

Watteau’s Fêtes Galantes 

 

Fête Champêtre and Fête Galante 

Fêtes Galantes at Versailles 1 

Fêtes Galantes at Versailles 2 

 

Rococo Playlist 

 

Dancing in the Garden: Basic Steps in Baroque Dance 

Instructions on How to Dance the Minuet 

 

Lesson 30 

What Makes Art Good or Bad? 

What Makes an Artist “Great”? (Advanced) 

What Is Good Art? (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.) 

 

Art but Make It Sports Video (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.) 

Art but Make It Sports Article 

Art but Make It Sports Examples 

 

Lesson 31 

Kauffmann’s Mother of the Gracchi (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

Kauffman, Mother of the Gracchi, and Neoclassicism (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

The Death of Marat: The Propaganda of Jacques-Louis David (Advanced) 

David’s The Death of Socrates 

The Coronation of Napoleon 

The Consecration of Napoleon at the Louvre 

 

Understanding the Styles of Art: Neoclassical 

Common Characteristics of Neoclassical Art (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nudity.) 

 

Lesson 32 

Goya’s Third of May  

Vigée Le Brun Mini Bio 

How Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s Painting Conquered Europe 

 

First Lady Portraits 

 

Lesson 33 

Romanticism Explained through Paintings 

Friedrich Mini Bio  

Friedrich: The Painter Who Revolutionized Landscapes (Advanced) 

Constable and the English Countryside 

Constable and The Hay Wain 

 

Romantic Art Movement (NOTE: Video briefly shows artwork with nude figures.) 

Brief Introduction to the Sublime 

 

Lesson 34 

Turner Mini Bio 

Turner’s Rain, Steam, and Speed 

Géricault Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and carnage.) 

Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and violent imagery.) 

Delacroix Mini Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution (Documentary) (NOTE: At 49:38-50:00, mention is made of Turner’s mistress, and a sketch with nudity is shown.) 

 

J. M. W. Turner at the National Gallery 

The Curious Case of J. M. W Turner’s Later Works 

J. M. W. Turner: Understanding Modern Art 

 

Lesson 35 

Courbet Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures. Additionally, due to the explicit nature of one of Courbet’s paintings, exercise caution when conducting research about this artist.) 

Courbet’s The Stone Breakers (article) 

Hunt Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

Hunt’s The Awakening Conscience 

 

Overview of Realism Movement (article) (NOTE: Article includes artwork with nude figures.) 

Introduction to Realism (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

Introduction to Realism (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

 

A Beginner’s Guide to the Pre-Raphaelites (article) 

Examples of Pre-Raphaelite Art (article) 

Introduction to the Pre-Raphaelites 

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 

 

Lesson 36 

Hokusai Mini Bio  

The Popularity of Hokusai’s Great Wave 

Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai 

 

Ukiyo-e Prints 

 

Hokusai-Inspired Printmaking Project 

 

Views of Mount Fuji at Auction 

 

Lesson 37 

Hiroshige Mini Bio & 100 Famous Views of Edo 

Hokusai and Hiroshige 

Hiroshige’s Evening Snow at Kambara 

“Looking East: How Japan Inspired Monet, Van Gogh, and Other Western Artists”  

Japonism Movement (article) 

When Japonism Bewitched Europe (article) 

How Japonisme Forever Changed the Course of Western Design (article) 

Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji 

100 Views of Edo Slideshow 

 

Lesson 38 

Introduction to Impressionism  

How Impressionism Began (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

Manet’s The Railway  

Manet’s The Balcony  

Degas Mini Bio  

Degas’s Four Dancers 

 

Plein Air Painting 

 

Lesson 39 

Monet Mini Bio  

Monet’s Garden at Vétheuil 

Why Monet Painted the Same Haystacks 25 Times (Advanced) 

Berthe Morisot: The Forgotten Impressionist (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nude figures.) 

 

Monet-Inspired Water Lilies 

Morisot-Inspired Flowers 

 

Lesson 40 

Renoir Mini Bio 

Renoir’s Pont Neuf 

Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party 

Cassatt Mini Bio  

The Radical Art of Mary Cassatt (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nude figures.) 

 

Name That Impressionist Game (When prompted, play in Classic Mode.) 

 

Lesson 41 

Cole Mini Bio 

Cole Documentary  

Course of Empire Series Gallery 

Cole’s Voyage of Life Series 

Duncanson Mini Bio 

The Work of Duncanson 

Discovering Duncanson 

 

Detroit Series 

 

Hudson River School (article) 

Virtual Gallery of Thomas Cole’s Work 

Virtual Gallery of Hudson River School Art 

 

Lesson 42 

Brady Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes photographs of battlefields with dead soldiers.) 

Photographing the Civil War 

Brady’s Civil War Photos at the National Archives 

The Photographer Who Shaped Our Vision of the Civil War 

How Photographers Change the Way You Feel about War 

Photographs from the Civil War (NOTE: Video includes photos of subjects that may be upsetting; please preview for sensitive viewers.) 

War Photography Pulls Between Aesthetics, Horror of Conflict (NOTE: Video includes photos of subjects that may be upsetting; please preview for sensitive viewers.) 

Illuminating Photography: From Camera Obscura to Camera Phone 

 

Making Daguerreotypes 

The Invention of Photography (article) 

Media History Shorts: The Invention of Photography 

 

Lesson 43 

Whistler Mini Bio (NOTE: This is a clip from a longer documentary that is very well done, but please preview for your family as Whistler’s lifestyle was unconventional.) 

Whistler’s Nocturne 

An Introduction to Winslow Homer 

How Winslow Homer Evokes the Power of Nature 

Remington Mini Bio 

Frederic Remington’s American West (Advanced) 

Frederic Remington, Sculptor 

Remington’s A Dash for the Timber 

 

Lesson 44 

Harriet Powers: A Story of Art and Faith 

Henry Ossawa Tanner Mini Bio 

Conservation Spotlight: Henry Ossawa Tanner 

Tanner’s Banjo Lesson (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes depictions and discussion of historical uses of blackface and other racist stereotypes.) 

 

Power's Description of Her Pictorial Quilt 

 

Geometric Paper Quilt 

Paper Quilt Collage 

 

Bible Quilt 1 

Bible Quilt 2 

Bible Quilt 3 

Pictorial Quilt 

 

Lesson 45 

Cézanne Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

How Cézanne Changed Art 

Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire 

 

Who Decides What Art Means? 

 

Painting a Still Life à la Cezanne (Advanced) 

Cezanne-Inspired Still Life (Easier, Step-by-Step) 

 

Lesson 46 

Van Gogh Mini Bio 

Hiroshige’s Influence on Van Gogh 

Stories from the Van Gogh Museum (NOTE: Some content on this website includes mature themes.) 

Van Gogh and His Brother Theo 

Seurat and Color Theory for Kids 

Seurat and Pointillism Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 

Seurat Mini Bio (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and mentions mature themes.) 

 

Pointillism Tutorial (Basic) 

Pointillism Tutorial (Intermediate) (Note: This video uses markers, but we recommend using Q-tips with paint instead!) 

Pointillism Tutorial (Intermediate) (Note: This video shows this activity using outlines that have already been created. You can have your student choose an object they’d like to paint and then trace that figure onto the paper or use a coloring page that students can then paint!) 

 

2-Minute Intro to Pointillism 

Overview of Pointillism (Activity Tutorial Included) 

How Art Can Trick Our Minds: Pointillism and Optics 

 

Lesson 47 

Rousseau Mini Bio 

Henri Rousseau for Kids 

Rodin Mini Bio (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

Rodin’s The Thinker (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

 

Rousseau Tiger Art Tutorial 

 

Lesson 48 

Larsson Mini Bio 

Photos from the Carl Larsson House 

Carl and Karin Larsson (article) (NOTE: Article includes artwork with nude figures.) 

 

Karin Larsson Mini Bio 

Lecture: Karin Bergöö Larsson and the Nordic Handicraft Revival (Advanced) (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nudity.) 

 

Lesson 49 

Klimt Mini Bio 

Surprising Facts about Klimt (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

 

What Are the Elgin Marbles? (article) 

Why the British Museum Has the Parthenon Marbles 

Rescued or Seized? The Fight over the Parthenon Marbles 

The Parthenon Sculptures (website) 

The History of Museums (Advanced) (NOTE: Video includes artwork containing nude figures.) 

 

World War II Looted Art (website) 

Nazi Plunder: A History of Missing and Recovered Art Treasures (article) 

Nazi Looted Art: The Holocaust Records Preservation Project (article) 

Woman in Gold 

Art Lessons for Students: Gustav Klimt 

 

Lesson 50 

Munch Mini Bio  

Munch’s Scream 

Kollwitz Mini Bio 

Kollwitz and the World Wars 

Kollwitz’s Mothers 

 

Lesson 51 

Matisse Mini Bio 

Footage of Matisse Making a Cut-Out 

 

How to Make a Matisse-Inspired Collage 

Matisse Collage (More Advanced) 

Fauvism in 1 Minute 

 

Lesson 52 

Mondrian Mini Bio 

Piet Mondrian: A Life in 10 Snippets 

Malevich and His Black Square (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nude figures.) 

Duchamp and the Concept of Art 

 

Why Is Modern Art So Bad? 

 

Mondrian Painting Tutorial 

 

Lesson 53 

Picasso Mini Bio 

Intro to Cubism 

Picasso’s Guernica (NOTE: Footage may be disturbing. Please preview.) 

 

Cubist Portrait (Elementary) 

Cubist Portrait (Intermediate) 

 

Lesson 54 

Chagall Mini Bio (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nude figures.) 

Chagall and His Work (article) 

Chagall’s Ceiling for the Paris Opéra (NOTE: Article includes artwork with nude figures.) 

 

Chagall Painting Tutorial 

 

Lesson 55 

Watanabe Mini Bio 

The Life and Art of Sadao Watanabe (article) 

Catalog of Sadao Watanabe’s Work 

 

Katazome 

Katazome Process 

Explore the Japanese Collection at Mingei International Museum 

 

Lesson 56 

Nolde Mini Bio (article) (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures.) 

Nolde’s Last Supper 

Pollock Mini Bio  

Pollock Mini Bio (Advanced) 

 

Should We Separate Art from the Artist? (NOTE: Video includes artwork with nude figures and mentions more mature issues.) 

 

Pollock-Inspired Action Painting 

 

Intro to Abstract Expressionism 

Abstract Expressionism: From “Jack the Dripper” to Color Fields 

 

Lesson 57 

Mitchell Mini Bio 

Frankenthaler Mini Bio 

Frankenthaler’s Mountains and Sea 

 

Understanding Color Field Painting 

Paint like Helen Frankenthaler 

Color Field Painting (website) 

Intro to Color Field Painting (article) 

 

Lesson 58 

Magritte Mini Bio 

The Philosophy Behind Rene Magritte’s Art (Advanced) 

Kahlo Mini Bio for Kids 

Dalí Mini Bio 

Dalí's Home and Studio 

Dalí’s Persistence of Memory 

 

Surrealism for Kids 

 

Lesson 59 

Wyeth: American Art Patriarch 

Hopper Mini Bio  

Unveiling Edward Hopper: The Dark Genius Behind Iconic American Art (Advanced) (NOTE: Video briefly includes artwork with nude figures.) 

 

Masterpiece: Nighthawks 

 

Museums on Us 

Museums 4 All 

 

Lesson 60 

10 Amazing Facts about Georgia O'Keeffe 

What Does Georgia O'Keeffe's Art Look Like? 

Wood's American Gothic 

How American Gothic Became an Icon 

Georgia O’Keeffe Art Tutorial 

 

Lesson 61 

Pippin Mini Bio 

Pierce Mini Bio 

 

Dave the Potter 

Slave Potter David Drake 

Resisting Slavery with Poetry and Clay 

 

Lesson 62 

Johnson Mini Bio 

Warhol Mini Bio 

Wyeth’s Christina’s World 

Warhol Self-Portraits 

 

Harlem Renaissance (article, advanced) 

Intro to the Harlem Renaissance 

 

Pop Art Movement (article, advanced) 

Pop Art for Kids 

What is Pop Art? 

 

Lesson 63 

Lange Mini Bio 

How Gordon Parks Became a Master Storyteller 

What Gordon Parks Saw 

 

Discuss: The Making of Migrant Mother 

Discuss: The Making of American Gothic (Discussion prompts focus on the video’s first 5 minutes.) 

 

Dorothea Lange Archive 

Gordon Parks Gallery 

Gordon Parks Archive 

 

Lesson 64 

Noguchi Mini Bio 

40 Years of Serra’s Sculptures 

Goldsworthy Mini Bio 

Goldsworthy’s Work 

Goldsworthy Archive