Art History Treasure Hunt (50 POINTS)
1. What would you collect? Start at: Metropolitan Museum of Art
These are the different galleries you can visit within the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Click each images in each gallery and choose ONE artwork that interests you, list the main facts in the chart in your packet about that artwork.
2. Modern Art Hunt: Visit the following website, and for each of the Modern Art Movements, list the name of the Movement, characteristics about the art movement, the years it occurred during, and an artist associated with the movement. .
Visit: ArtyFactory
3. Modern Art Hunt Part 2:
Visit the following website, and for each of the Modern Art Movements, list the name of the Movement, characteristics about the art movement, the years it occurred during, and an artist associated with the movement.
Visit: ArtyFactory2
4. Most Viewed Artworks at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art): Go to MOMA and select and describe your favorite image by listing the artist name, title of artwork, characteristics, style and year.
5. Famous Artist Search: Use the list of artists on the Artist Research Paper handout or webpage. Choose 4 different artists and list the art style they are famous for working in, a famous artwork they created, and write down the website(s) you used to find information about them. Use websites you have previously used to find information for these work sheets, and also try:
6. You made it to the end of the hunt!
Check out some interactive games! Print one image you made from one of the games and use it for EXTRA CREDIT!
National Gallery of Art --art site with interactive internet drawing games.
Picasso Head --- make your own Picasso style abstract face.
MOMA For Teens -- cool interactive digital collages, photograms, interviews/podcasts.
Marilyn Monroe --make Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe
Sketchopod --make a digital sketch/drawing of your own