FACES AND PLACES is a two-part interactive activity inspired by the National Gallery’s extensive collection of American naive artists, a gift to the nation from Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. Elements from more than 100 paintings have been included in these presentations. Using these two programs, young artists can create portraits, landscapes, or genre scenes of daily life.
FACES encourages children to create and personalize portraits by changing the facial characteristics of various sitters. Easy-to-use interactive tools allow users to modify the expressions and hairstyles of the subjects or to add decorative elements to a stylized domestic interior. |
PLACES is a panoramic landscape activity that introduces children to the fundamentals of landscape and genre painting while offering a glimpse of life in rural America from the late 18th through the mid-19th century. Music and surprising animations enliven the scene, as children experiment with perspective, composition, color, and scale. |
To print, click the PRINTER button at the top right of the interactive screen.
RECOMMENDED BROWSERS: Macintosh users running OS 10.6 Snow Leopard should open Safari in 32-bit mode for full Shockwave compatibility. Here's how. Firefox works well in 10.6, but it has some incompatibilities in OS 10.5 Leopard that may cause pieces of the interactive to "disappear" from view. If that happens while you're creating a portrait or a landscape, just resize the browser window by dragging the bottom right corner to refresh the screen.
On a PC, use Internet Explorer or the latest version of Firefox.
PLUG-INS: If you see a broken plug-in icon or the top of this page is blank, please download or update your Shockwave Player.
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