L'histoire de l'art: French 3 (Nickerson)

Your task: Research a French artist, write a biography of them and do an oral presentation to class on the life and work of your artist. Use this guide to help!

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What is ARTstor?

ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Our community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. --taken from the ARTstor about page

Off Campus??

You'll need a username and password, so be sure to create these while on a school computer so you can still have access to these resources when off campus.

Export ARTStor Images to PowerPoint

1. To start, you need to add the images you want to export to an Image Group. Do this by clicking the orange "Add to Group" button when viewing individual images. 

2. Open your group by selecting "Browse" on the ARTStor toolbar and then "Groups". 

3. Select the group you want to export. 

4. Click the orange "Export" button and select the "PowerPoint" option. 

5. All images will be exported into a PowerPoint file. The metadata for each image will be included in the speaker notes for the slide. 

6. Include a statement such as this within your final presentation: “All images are from [ARTStor] and are rights-cleared for educational use. Any images not from this source are listed in the Bibliography.”