Art in FocusChapter 22:
Art of the Later Nineteenth CenturyWeb Links
| Vincent van Gogh | | This is a large site that is organized by types of pictures (portraits, places, for instance), and also has excerpts of Vincent's letters. There are examples of works done by van Gogh when he was a teenager (and as young as nine!) Why do you think van Gogh has become so popular when he only sold one painting in his lifetime? Why do you think the public's opinion of art can change so much over time?
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http://www.vangoghgallery.com/index.html
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| Winslow Homer Online | | This site brings together 160 works in an online exhibition of this American master. Click on the Online Exhibition and keep clicking on “next” to view Homer's works. Pick one painting that you like and use it as a starting point for writing a poem. Think about what you would hear, smell, feel, see, and taste if you could be inside the painting and include all these sensations in your poem.
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http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/homer/
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| Henry Tanner as Storyteller | | Learn more about the story of Daniel in the Lion's Den and more about Tanner's life. Scroll to the bottom of the page and try to answer the “Questions about the Artwork.”
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http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources/Look/Narrative/daniel.html
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| African Americans in the Visual Arts | | This compilation from Long Island University features a number of African American artists working the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their artistic influences, and the historical impact of their work. Listed chronologically, read about nineteenth-century artists like Henry Ossawa Tanner, whose works strongly reflect his academic European influence and training. What similarities do you see between Tanner's works and those of his contemporaries?
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http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavaahp.htm
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