Art Museum Research
Look through the digital museums and then answer these questions.
Compare and contrast how the different museums display information about the artworks.
Write down 3 different artworks and 3 facts about each artwork.
True to Nature Virtual Tour
Art Institute Essentials Tour
Spend some time with the museum’s most iconic works of art and get insights from the experts with this special video series.
This masterpiece by Gustave Caillebotte represents the changing urban milieu of late 19th-century Paris. Caillebotte strikingly captured a vast, stark modernity, complete with life-size figures strolling in the foreground and wearing the latest fashions.
In the paintings of Picasso’s Blue Period (1901–04), the artist restricted himself to a cold, monochromatic blue palette, flattened forms, and emotional, psychological themes of human misery and alienation. This painting reflects the 22-year-old Picasso’s personal struggle and sympathy for the plight of the downtrodden.
Vincent van Gogh painted three versions, including this one, of his bedroom in the “Yellow House” in Arles, France. To Van Gogh, this picture symbolized relaxation and peace. However, to our eyes the canvas seems to teem with nervous energy, instability, and turmoil—an effect heightened by the sharply receding perspective.
Spend some time with Seurat’s timeless pointillist masterpiece and learn more about its enduring mysteries, revolutionary technique, and underlying color theory.
Delve into the story of these stained glass windows that Chagall created to celebrate the arts of music, painting, literature, theater, and dance and the United States as a place of cultural and religious freedom.
Take a closer look at Hopper’s classic American painting and consider how some of its unsettling elements—clashing colors, lack of depth, and no diner door!—are key to its abiding appeal.