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Ia Orana Maria Aka Hail Mary

Painted by:

Paul Gauguin

Orientation:

Portrait

Paul Gauguin lived in Mataiea Village in Tahiti, he painted, "Ia Orana Maria" (Ave Maria) and other depictions of Tahitian life.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Seurat
Georges Pierre Seurat (December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising a technique of painting known as pointillism. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886), Seurat's most famous painting

I  would use these websites in my instruction so the students could retrieve information about certain artists that we would be studying at the time as well as artistic techniques used in creating specific art. These are great websites to also obtain new ideas for projects that they might be working on. The students could use these websites at school or at home.