Art 2A: Resource Page

Painting and Drawing Techniques: Terms and Glossary


DickBlick Tutorial: Prisma Color  Pencil

Charcoal Drawing tutorial

 Painting (watercoloroilacrylic) Glossary
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Art Resources:

About Albers & ‘Bauhaus: Art As Life’

ART 21 PBS

TED Talks

NY MOMA Explore  


Contemporary Art: Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first century. Contemporary art provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary society and the issues relevant to ourselves, and the world around us. 

Tate Modern definition: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/c/contemporary-art

Artists directories such as: https://www.moma.org/artists
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Gesture Drawings

Etching by Henry Moore of an elephant skull, produced in the 1960s and printed as an album in 1970.


Eugene Delacroix
Lion Devouring a Hare (1851), red chalk

Lion Attacking a Boar (1851), red chalk

Alberto Giacometti
 Artist's Mother (1951), graphite
 Untitled (1956), engraving
 Annette Sewing (1954), graphite

Rico Lebrun

Claus Oldenberg

Pat Reading in Bed, Lenox (1959), crayon


  Honoré Daumier

 Riot Scene (1871), pen and ink wash



                                                                             Henry Moore

                                                                            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moore


Sheep Study (1972), etching


The Artist's Hand V (1979), Lithograph on paper