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“Painting the American Landscape”
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Additional Resources:
- Visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Have a Question?” and type in “Bierstadt” in the Last Name field to find out more about the artist.
- Go to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art website for a digital image of a letter Bierstadt wrote.
- To learn more about linear perspective, patterns, and other techniques artists use, go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website “Schools & Scholars” and click on “Panoramas,” an online exhibition about landscape painting.
“Traveling the Electronic Superhighway”
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Additional Resources:
- For a biography of Nam June Paik, visit the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery website exhibition “Portrait of the Art World.”
- To get a closer look at the details in Nam June Paik’s Electronic Superhighway, visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Collections & Exhibitions”. For a tribute to Paik, who died in 2006, go to the article “Olympian” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s blog “Eye Level”.
- For information on some of Paik’s other artwork, visit the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s website feature “Highlights on View”.
“Self-Portraits”
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Additional Resources:
- Go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Have a Question?” and type in “Hoffman” in the Last Name field to find out more about this artist.
- Visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Have a Question?” and type in “Close” in the Last Name field to find out more about this artist.
- Go to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art website for a transcript of a 1987 interview with Chuck Close.
- To look at several Smithsonian websites to find other artists’ self-portraits:
- Go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Have a Question?” and type in “Self-Portrait” in the Artwork Title field to find related works of art,
- Or look at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s website feature “Eye Contact” Teacher’s Guide.
- For additional activities related to portraits, visit the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s website feature “A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery” Activities and Resources and Exhibition Resources.
“Moving Through Time”
Additional Resources:
- For a biography of Eadweard Muybridge, go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Have a Question?” and enter “Muybridge” in the Last Name field.
- To see an online exhibition of photographs Muybridge took to capture motion, visit the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s website feature “Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge’s Photography of Motion”.
- Go to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art website for a transcript of an interview with Helen Lundeburg.
- For additional information about Eadweard Muybridge, go to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History website “History Wired”.
- Most Americans still worked with horses in the late nineteenth century, which helps explain the national fascination at the time with the question: Does a horse ever have all four feet off the ground at once when it runs? Eadweard Muybridge used a clever sequence of cameras stationed along a track to capture images that helped prove that horses do indeed have all four hooves flying above the ground at some point when they move at a full gallop. To learn more about Muybridge’s famous photographic breakthrough, go to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History online exhibition “Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge’s Photography of Motion”.
- Explain to students that the work of photographers like Muybridge inspired experts to try to figure out how the ability to break motion down into a series of steps could be applied to the American workplace. Have students research and create a graph including various examples and their processes, such as getting a fast food item to a customer waiting at a take-out window in a matter of minutes. For information on changes in the workplace, go to the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies’ website feature “Carbons to Computers”. The section of the lesson plan on Scientific Management explains how efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor applied concepts of measured motion to industry and broke actions down so management could get the most production (and profit) out of each individual worker.
- For a biography of Helen Lundeberg, go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Have a Question?” and enter “Lundeberg” in the Last Name field.
“The Roots of Frontier Culture”
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Additional Resources:
- To hear Smithsonian American Art Museum Director Elizabeth Broun discuss Luis Jiménez’s work, visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Director’s Choice”.
- Go to the Luce Foundation Center for American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Artist Media Archive” and click on “Go” under “Meet Luis Jiménez” to watch an interview with the artist.
- Visit the Smithsonian Archives of American Art website for a transcript of an interview with Luis Jiménez at
- Listen to Native American music at the Smithsonian Global Sound’s website feature “From the Andes to the Arctic”. Click on “Lessons and Activities for Teachers” on the far right column for relevant lesson plans.
- To learn more about Pueblo Indian watercolors, visit the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Schools & Scholars”.
“Otherworldly Art”
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Additional Resources:
- Artist Abbott Handerson Thayer often used his own children as models in his paintings. For more information, go to the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery’s website feature “Collections” and the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Speaking of Pictures”.
- For a biography of Abbott Handerson Thayer, go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum online exhibition “Abbott Handerson Thayer” or the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Treasures to Go: Artist Biography”.
- Go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website feature “Have a Question?”and type in “Conner” in the Last Name field to find out more about the artist Bruce Conner.
- Go to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art website for transcripts of interviews with Bruce Conner:
- Go to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art website for the “Abbott Handerson Thayer and Thayer Family Papers” for sketches, writings, and photographs from 1851 to ca. 1901.
- Borrow the “Magical Media” teaching resource from the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden by contacting the Education Department at 202-633-3382 or by sending an e-mail to hmsgeducation@si.edu. The resource explores the variety of materials, from mud and rocks to neon light and even their own bodies, that contemporary artists use to create their work.
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