Additional website and How instruction

I found two more website below beside previous seven found websites.
Old ones are more about history, background and famous artist in the period.
Whereas these two are focused in telling details and color uses of the artists in the period. http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/picasso.html
http://www.moodbook.com/history/modernism/henri-matisse-art.html



Renaissance
http://www.students.sbc.edu/kitchin04/artandexpression/modern%20art.html
http://www.students.sbc.edu/kitchin04/artandexpression/artandexpression.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/2838/artgal.htm
http://www.arthistory-famousartists-paintings.com/RenaissanceArt.html
20th century Art
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/grisham/1d_categories.html
http://www.henri-matisse.net/artofmatisse.html
http://abstractart.20m.com/Pablo_Picasso.html


I found several website that could benefit my children in learning the lesson. My content area is Art.
The lesson is about Expressionism. If I directly jump into Expressionism, I'm afraid if they will be really ready to go deeper in to expressionism. so first, I will use the picture of the timeline of art style stages and tell them how artists changed their style overtime and each style has its name such as expressionism which we will learn today. As we see according to the timeline, expressionism falls in 20th century which we consider Modern art. We can click on one of the stylistic categories to know more about the smooth transition of before and after. (http://instruct.westvalley.edu/grisham/1d_categories.html). Now we can click on the 'Expressionism'.  Famous paintings from six well know artist in the period with brief description comes up. Once they click on the particular artist, longer description of their background and detail about more paintings come up. They can learn doing the same thing with other five artists in the previous page. Also I'm not forgetting about Picasso and Matisse! two of the most well known artists in expressionism. Some children may heard about him or not at all. First two website above are about them. It tells about not only their background and style which could be little boring but also teaches about use of color in interesting way.  It lets children click on the color palette and changes the whole color of the original painting. They will learn how applying different color could change the whole mood of the painting. (What did Picasso intend to achieve? why does the painting look so gloomy and blue overall? What if you click on Orange on color palette? does it still look gloomy? etc)
Though art itself is visual, sometimes it is hard to make children understand the painting because they don't have enough art knowledge to interpret the painting. Need of other easy way and effective sources to prepare our children to get into the lesson/topic is very important so they don't get lost.


*Its my first year to teaching and haven't taught any children before.. so I don't know if I answered enough? I used best of my knowledge and spent time for research. sorry I didn't attend elementary or middle school in America so it may vary... Please let me know if I need to be corrected in someway :)