Art Web Resources
Art Education
- Art Studio Chalkboard Resources on the technical fundamentals of painting and drawing.
- Art Teacher Connection Pages that clarify what the National Art Education standards are and how they could be integrated into other content areas
- ArtsEdNet From the Getty Museum, a collection of lesson plans, curriculum ideas, forums, and more.
- Bibliography on Color Theory Chronological listing of treatises, books, articles, dissertations, from Aristotle up to the present.
- College Art Association Newsletters, upcoming conferences, publications, job opportunities, grant info.
- Incredible Art Department Lesson plans for K-12 and college, links to displays of art work by students, the "art site of the week."
OnLine Instruction, Art and Art History
Events and Competitions
- Art Deadlines List Announcements of competitions..
- Arts Wire Info on grants, jobs for artists, local arts councils, etc.
Exhibits, Galleries, Museums
- Artcyclopedia Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet. Searchable by artist, period, style, movement; Links to thousands of thumbnailed images.
- Africa: the Art of a Continent Art and text from an exhibition at the Guggenheim museum.
- American Museum of Photography Individual exhibits, like the Daguerrotype collection, or take a guided tour, or pick up technical information, such as how to preserve photographs.
- Art Crimes One of the largest collections ever assembled of graffiti, which is to say, graffiti as anonymous art.
- the Artchive Collection of over 2200 beautifully realized digitized reproductions of classic art.
- Art Exhibits Yahoo's guide.
- Art Guide Comprehensive guide to the art collections of Great Britain and Ireland. The site is divided into three main sections, allowing users to browse for exhibits by artist, museum, or geographic location. The Art Guide database currently contains over 1,900 artists, more than 650 museums, and over 4,500 individual listings.
- Fine Art Museums of San Francisco Searchable over 75,000 images.
- Art Links Galleries and exhibits on the web.
- Asian Art:Exhibitions
- Asian Art on the Web
- Christus Rex Christian art and documents.
- ExCalendar: the Official Exhibition Calendar of the World's Leading Art Museums Searchable by museum, artist, city or geographical area, or name of exhibit. Supplies dates for the exhibits and links to the parent organization.
- Fractal Gallery
- Graphion's OnLine Type Museum
- Internet Art Resources Info on galleries, exhibits, museums, etc.
- Musei Vaticani Religiously oriented tour of the Vatican collection.
- Museum of Modern Art
- Museum of Photographic Arts
- Museums: World Wide Art Resources
- MythMedia Collection of depictions of mythical figures in western art.
- National Gallery of Art Virtual Tour
- Virtual Tour of Museums and Exhibits Links to many museums that have online guided tours.
WebMuseum, Paris The ultimate "virtual museum" of art. Includes the "Famous Paintings Exhibition," covering Gothic art to modern art, with a glossary of painting styles.
Indexes to Art Resources
- Art History Links
- Art History Network Allows you to access the information by era, artists, or civilizations, but also by journals, images and virtual tours, discussion groups, etc.
- Art History Research Centre
- Arts Index, from Yahoo
- Artsource A thorough and well-organized index to art resources.
- FineArt Forum Comprehensive guide to art resources, with especially good links to online journals. A Magellan 4 Star Site.
- Internet as a Research Medium for Art Historians Extended essay on method, with numerous excellent links.
- NetSerf Guide to medieval art sources.
- Sculptor.Org Master site for sculptors, with over 3000 links for suppliers, sculptors, preservation, galleries, museums, technique.
- World Art Treasures Collection of over 100,000 slides.
Individual Artists
- Artnetweb A space for artists that includes a slide registry and brief biographical sketches.
- Art Forum Includes links to many artists' homepages. Also offers free web sites to artists.
Photography Sites
- American Museum of Photography Individual exhibits, like the daguerrotype collection, or take a guided tour, or pick up technical information, such as how to preserve photographs.
- Charles Daney's Photography Links
- History of Photography from Its Beginnings to the 1920's
Other Useful Sites
- Aesthetics Online Articles, bibliographies, teaching resources, links to related sites, and more.
- Alternative Careers for Art Historians Got a degree in Art History and you don't want to teach? Here are some other uses you can put your knowledge and skills to.
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus Browser
- ArtJob.Org Jobs and internships in the visual arts. Requires registration.
- ArtLex - a dictionary of art terminology, especially for art students elementary through undergraduate.
- Arts Journal Daily digest of Arts and Cultural Journalism
- Association for Art History Includes job listings.
- Learning Strategies for Art Students
- Words of Art--a Glossary of Critical Terms
- Worldwide Books Exhibition Catalogs and Books on Art Allows you to identify over 35,000 exhibition catalogs and art books, many of which would be difficult to trace otherwise.
Art and Architecture Images
- Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America Gottscho-Schleisner collection of over 29,000 images.
- Art Exhibits
- Daguerrian Society Extensive collection of Daguerrotypes, and links to other online collections.
- Digital archive of American Architecture
- the Great Buildings Collection For a wide selection of buildings throughout the world, at the minimum there is descriptive and historical information about the building and its architect (when known); for many buildings there are also critical discussions, bibliographies, and links to photos online as well as to availability of 3-D models on the commercial CD-ROM product.
- Renaissance and Baroque Architecture Extensive collection of slides.
- Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange Project Focusing on American architecture 1850-1899.
- SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library Catalog
- Subject Directory of Image Sites From Paula Berinstein, author of Finding Images Online
Historical Images
- Around the World in the 1890's Collection of over 900 images, another exhibit in the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress
- Digital Image Access Project Collection of images from various of Duke University's collections includes 1,000 images of "The Urban Landscape."
- Silent Pictures Photo Gallery
- Smithsonian Photographs on Line Searchable database of over 1,000 images.
Image Finders and All Purpose Picture Files
- AltaVista Photo Finder Search engine for not just photos, but art and other images. Results include compressed images (pages load quickly).
- Amazing Picture Machine Search engine that finds pictures on the net for you, which also links you to major picture files that they routinely look for images in.
- Footage.Net Searchable database of downloadable film footage on the net.
- Scour.Net Multimedia search engine that takes you not to the web site but directly to the desired images, animations, videos, and recordings. It also compensates for bad spelling.
- Search by Content in Image Databases
Miscellaneous
- Symbols in Christian Art and Architecture Searchable index of symbols, with meanings and religious figures associated with them. Frames, with clean simple graphics.
- International Museum of Cartoon Art Artists section contains bios and a few cartoons from a sizable roster of artists including the creators of Pogo, Dilbert, Family Circus, Hagar the Horrible, Mad Magazine, SpiderMan, Li'l Abner, Shoe, etc. with a few political cartoonists as well.
- Symbols.Com Find the symbol to represent a word using the word index, or the meaning of a graphic symbol with the graphic index, searching a database of . more than 2,500 Western signs. There are 1,600 articles on the symbols' their histories, uses, and meanings.
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