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'Turkey buzzard.' These were the only two words that Edgar Degas learned to speak in English when he sailed for America in 1872 with his brother, Rene, on the British [...]

Bring your sketchbook and/or camera when you visit Sentinel Ranch in The Hondo Valley, which is located at the foot of the Capitan Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. The artist [...]

WALKING through HISTORY After a walking tour of Florence with our group leader, we were left in the impressive shadow of Brunelleschi's enormous Duomo. With guidebooks and maps in hand [...]

No collection of paintings by 20th-century American artists would be complete without one by Charles Demuth (1883-1935). Art critic and historian Robert Hughes includes discussion of Demuth's artwork on several [...]

MASKMAKING WITH FOIL. Video/20 min./$24.95. Level: All ages. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. Artist/educator Peggy Flores uses heavy-duty tooling foil and aluminum foil to demonstrate [...]

TESSELLATIONS: How to Create Them. Video/27 min./$29.95. Level: Grades 7-12. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. A complex-looking art technique is made entirely understandable in this [...]

[A-V/VISUAL/CD-ROM] I CAN FLY: Kids and Creativity. Video/25 min./S39.95. Level: Elementary. L & S Video Inc., 45 Stornowaye, Chappaqua, NY 10514, (914) 238-9366. This fast-moving and lively video explores the [...]

[A-V/VISUAL/CD-ROM] DRAWING WITH LINE: Contour and Negative Space; DRAWING BASICS: Composition; DRAWING WITH LINE: The Grid and Proportions; and DRAWING WITH LIGHT AND SHADE. Videos/10--19 min. each/$39 each, $150 for [...]

ART 20: The Thames and Hudson Multimedia Dictionary of Modern Art. CD-ROM/$125, plus S&H. Level: High School through Adult. Thames & Hudson, Inc., distributed by W. W. Norton & Co., [...]

ARCHITECTURE AND ART: Cultural Heritage Sites. Prints, Portfolio and Guide/$55. Levels: Grades 5-8. Produced by the Getty Education Institute for the Arts and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Crystal Productions, [...]

CAREERS IN ART. Set of 12 posters/$49.95. Level: High School and Adult. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. Explanations and illustrations of the many career opportunities [...]

PORTRAITS IN WATERCOLOR. Video/59 min./$39.95. Level: Adult. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. Viewers will find both inspiration and instruction in this video, which features Charles [...]

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DRAWINGS. Video/58 min./ $39.95. Level: Adult. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. This video presents an expansive selection of 70 architectural drawings from [...]

CERAMICS. Set of 14 posters/ $44. Level: High School and Adult. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. A clear and concise description of a variety of [...]

JACOB LAWRENCE: The Glory of Expression. Video/28 min./$39.95. Level: All Ages. L&S Video Inc., 45 Stornowaye, Chappaqua, NY 10514, (914) 238-9366. In this documentary about the life and work of [...]

Ceramics Handbuilding Series: PINCH AND COIL CONSTRUCTION and SLAB CONSTRUCTION. Two videos/30 min. each/ $24.95 each, $45 set. Level: All ages. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) [...]

WHISTLE WHILE YOU SCULPT. Video/13 min./$39.95. Level: Grades 4-12. Crizmac Art & Cultural Education Materials, P.O. Box 65928, Tucson, AZ 85728-5928, (800) 913-8555. Using excellent close-ups and careful explanation, artist [...]

Gen. Colin Powell and the Baker's-Dough Mural Shortly before Sacramento's new Boys & Girls Club opened, a group of art teachers formed an organization called Visual Arts for Youth (VAY), [...]

FAITH RINGGOLD: The Last Story Quilt. Video/28 min./S39.95 Level: All grades. L&S Video Inc., 45 Stornowaye, Chappaqua, NY 10514, (914) 238-9366. In this inspiring video we listen to African-American artist [...]

CLASSROOM CREATIVE EXPERIENCE: A Culture and Art Lesson. Video/23 min. Level: Grades 1-3. Price: $95. San Luis Video Publishing, distributed by CLEARVUE/eav, 6465 N. Avondale Ave., Chicago, IL 60631-1909, (800) [...]

On the right side of this painting, see the woman in the doorway, watching the little girl playing with a hoop outside. Perhaps she is calling the child to come [...]

Some artists hire a woman to pose for them while they t her picture and hope to sell the finished painting. Other artists are commissioned by the woman, her family [...]

When an artist paints a picture of someone, it is called a portrait. When an artist looks in a mirror and paints a picture of him- or herself, it is [...]

Space in a painting or drawing is the distance between objects or places. Artists give us the illusion of depth of the flat surface of the picture; that is, they [...]

When he painted this portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II (1552-1612), Giuseppe Arcimboldo used his imagination, and portrayed him as 'Vertumnus,' the Roman god of vegetation and the seasons. [...]

A humid summer haze covers the River Seine and the grassy bank where young men and boys go swimming on Sunday. It is a short distance from Paris. Every thing [...]

How many of these two- and three dimensional art forms and media have your students been introduced to, in studio or art-history experiences? 2-D ARTWORKS DRAWINGS are made by moving [...]

Where do your students turn when they are looking for ideas for making art? Artworks are not produced in a vacuum, but by the interaction of experiences, and interrelationships of [...]

A rich and stimulating opportunity awaits teachers who plan to connect or bring together an art project with another subject area of the curriculum, thus addressing the sixth listing in [...]

When we create an artwork, our 'ingredients' are the elements of art: line, color, shape/form, texture and value, as described in last month's column. How they are used makes up [...]

What about your students who show special abilities and a high interest level in art? Will they choose some area of art as a future career? What about those students [...]

'Art Works' is a monthly column that provides bits of know-how and reminders of ways to assure the success of your art program. In the coming year, look for advice [...]

A field trip to an art museum is a very special occasion for students, one they will long remember and that will initiate an association with museums that will endure [...]

Your students have taken a look at a number of artworks--sculptures, paintings, buildings, murals, masks and other art forms--and have learned who made them, in what country the artist lived [...]

Christo, eat your heart out! With over 90 brightly painted umbrellas gracing a serpentine walk-through on the green lawn of a park, this community 'Parade of Artist Umbrellas' attracted a [...]

HOWLING COYOTES AND FROLICKING FISH: Making Cross-Cultural Connections through Folk Art. CD-ROM/75 images, Teacher's Guide and Student Handouts/ $29.95. Level: Grades 3-12. Crizmac Art & Cultural Education Materials, Inc., P.O. [...]

[VHS/CD/VISUAL] Artists of the 20th Century: RENE MAGRITTE. DVD/50 min./$19.95. Level: High School and Adult. Kultur International Films Ltd, Inc., 195 Highway 36, West Long Branch, NJ 07764; www.kultur.com. Intriguing, [...]

[VHS/CD/VISUAL] TREASURES OF ATHENS AND OLYMPIA: Art from the 5th Century B.C.; Greek Art and the Human Figure; Byzantine and Later Greek Art. Series of 3 DVDs or VHS/each 24 [...]

VHS/CD/VISUAL Artists of the 20th Century: FRANCIS BACON. DVD/50 min./$19.95. Level.' High School and Above. Kultur International Films Ltd, Inc., 195 Highway 36, West Long Branch, NJ 07764, www.kultur.com. Francis [...]

FRONTIER VISIONARY: George Catlin and the Plains Indians. Video/27 min./$24.95. Level. Middle School and Above. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview IL 60025, www.crystalproductions.com. This video tells the story of [...]

Easy for all ages, soda-straw weaving challenges students to create a variety of products from a woven band. The materials are readily available: thick plastic soda straws, masking tape and […]

[VHS/CD/VISUAL] Who is the Artist? LICHTENSTEIN, THIEBAUD, WARHOL. Video/25 min./$29.95. Level: Ages 9 and up. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629, www.crystal productions.com. Students are introduced [...]

TAKE 5: The Art of Sport. Set of five Art Prints/Teacher's Guide/$44. Level: All grades. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. This new set of five [...]

Video/55 min./$19.95. Level; College. Public Media/Home Vision Entertainment, 4423 W. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, IL 60640-5802, (800) 826-3456. Produced in France, this documentary tells of Khmer, Cambodia's flourishing civilization where over [...]

[A-V/VISUAL/CD-ROM] TAKE 5: Self-Portraits. Set of five posters/S44. Level: All Ages. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. This set of 'Self-Portraits' is a welcome addition to [...]

[A-V/VISUAL/CD-ROM] DRAWING LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS: Drawing Simple Shapes (76 min.); Drawing Nature (58 min.); Drawing People (61 min.); and Drawing Animals (58 min.). Video series/$24.95 each. Level: Grades 4-8. Coyote [...]

MUSEE D'ORSAY. Video/60 min./$29.95. Level: High School and Adult. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. This video highlights the extensive collection of Western art that is [...]

SCENES OF AMERICAN LIFE: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Video/10 min./Study Guide/10 slides/Ten 8 1/2' x 11' posters/$75. Level: Secondary. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, [...]

EXPLORING ROCK ART: A North American Field Trip; CHINESE SHADOW PUPPET THEATER; and MEXICO'S DAY OF THE DEAD. Three CD-ROMs (Mac/ Win)/$29.95 each. Level: Elementary and Middle School. Pentewa Interactive, [...]

FLOWERS IN WATERCOLOR. Video/ 58 min./$39.95. Level: Adult. Crystal Productions, P.O. Box 2159, Glenview, IL 60025, (800) 255-8629. In this video, artist Charles Reid demonstrates the watercolor-painting process, from pencil [...]