Artists

• Kids and Teens: Arts: Painting  (137)

About Scott Adams [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - The cartoonist who created the Dilbert comic strip tells about his own life.

All About Art - Famous Artists [ Kids/Teens ] - Includes some well known artist with short biographies and a list of famous paintings for each.

Encarta: African American Artists [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Tells about Africans and their descendants have contributed to the visual arts, producing some of America's finest paintings, sculptures, collages, prints, and other works.

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography abou the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Frankenthaler, Helen [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the American painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Gentileschi, Artemisia [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Tuscan painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Giacometti, Alberto [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Swiss sculptor and painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo [ Kids ] - Short biography about the Italian artist's life and paintings.

Hiroshige [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Japanese painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Jasper Johns [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Biography of the abstract expressionist painter born in Augusta, Georgia.

Joan Miro (1893-1983) [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Short biography for the Spanish painter, ceramist, and sculptor from Hemingway's Paris.

Josef Albers [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Biography and works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Josef Albers [ Kids ] - Short biography about the artist-teacher with a strong interest in color theory.

Klimt, Gustav [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Austrian painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Léger, Fernand [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Ma Yüan [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Chinese painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Magritte, René [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography abou the Belgian surrealist painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Milev, Ivan [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Representative of Bulgarian Modernism. Biography and a gallery of works.

Modigliani, Amedeo [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Italian painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Mondrian, Piet [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Dutch painter. Includes bibliography and pronunciation key.

Moore, Henry [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the English sculptor.

Morisot, Berthe [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French impressionist painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Museum of Art Masters [ Kids ] - Read about eleven of the greatest artists of all time. Biographies researched and written by the students of Kyrene de las Brisas Elementary.

My Hero: Artists [ Kids/Teens ] - Short student-friendly biographies of more than two dozen painters, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, actors and designers who have shared their talents with the world.

Nevelson, Louise [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the American sculptor.

NGA Classroom: Calder Close-Up (1898 - 1976) [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Information about the American artist who created many works of art including paintings, jewelry, stage sets, mobiles and stabiles.

Paolo Uccello [ Kids/Teens ] - A short biography of the Renaissance artist prepared by Kaleena and Meghan, Grade 8, Riverdale Junior Secondary School.

Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton [ Kids ] - Information about the famous painting, a short biography and activity sheet for children.

Poussin, Nicolas [ Kids/Teens ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a brief biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

Rauschenberg, Robert [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides information a short biography about the American painter. Includes a pronunciation key.

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt [ Kids ] - Information about the famous painting, a short biography and activity sheet for children.

Street to Studio: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Information about the painter and his paintings including gallery and biography. Paint and print out a painting with the virtual studio and see art created by other visitors.

Theodore Lukits [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Biography, image galleries, archives and articles for the California impressionist painter.

Thomas Moran [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Consists of an illustrated article on the British landscape artist's life and work.

Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y [ Kids/Teens ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides information covering the life and works of the Spanish painter. Includes bibliography and pronunciation key.

Vuillard, Édouard [ Kids ] - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter and lithographer. Includes a pronunciation key.

Wyeth Center at Farnsworth Museum [ Kids/Teens ] - The Wyeth family has produced three generations of artists and illustrators. Brief biographies are presented here of N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) who illustrated children's books, Andrew Wyeth (born 1917), and Jamie Wyeth (born 1946).