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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
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Art Directories |
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| Americans for the Arts: Americas leading source for advancing the arts. The site provides links to other art advocacy groups, information about art in the U.S., and all kinds of helps and guides for artists, teachers, students, and artists. | |
| Artlex Art Dictionary: An art museum for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education. | |
| Artcyclopedia: This web site explores 125,000 works of art, provides links to art museums and art web sites, and has monthly features that spotlight artists and articles about art. | |
| World Wide Art Resources: This site contains information about artists, museums, galleries, quality art, art history, arts education, antiques, dance, theater, and more. | |
| Yahoo Directory Arts: Yahoo’s directory for art and art related subjects. | |
Art Museums |
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| Art Institute of Chicago: The Institute's museum is divided into the following areas: African & Amerinidan, American, Architecture, Asian, Ancient, European Painting, Photography, European Decorative Arts & Sculpture, Prints & Drawings, Textiles, Arms & Armors, and Modern and Contemporary. Find out about exhibitions (online included), collections (Art Access of online images provided), and much more. | |
| Library of Congress: The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world. The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress, and the American people, and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. | |
| The Louvre: This museum is home to the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo. Iif you can’t visit in person, you can take a virtual tour using the web site. | |
| MagazineArt.org: "A free visual database of magazine cover art from the 19th and early 20th centuries." | |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art: Founded in 1870, and located in New York City, New York, the Metropolitan Museum’s collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. It contains about 6,500 objects. The web site can be searched by artist, period, style, or keyword. Also has a timeline of art history. | |
| Museum of Modern Art: Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. | |
| National Museum of Women in the Arts: This is the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. The web site has information about women artists, and exhibits at the museum located in Washington, D.C. | |
| Prehistoric Art Virtual Museum: This is a virtual museum, at The State Hermitage Museum, devoted to prehistoric peoples and art of the Southern Siberian Steppes and the Central Asian Republics. | |
| Rijks Museum – Amsterdam: This museum is home to an art collection that features over 400 great masterpieces of painting. It houses the world’s largest collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Era, as well as all kinds of decorative art items. The museum plans to break with tradition and integrate its collections so that all art works from a period will be shown together instead of separated by genre. The web site is animated and has interactive tours and lessons. | |
| The State Hermitage Museum: Put together throughout two centuries and a half, the Hermitage collections of works of art (over 3,000,000 items) present the development of the world culture and art from the Stone Age to the 20th century. This interactive web site has a virtual academy with interactive activities and art lessons. | |
| The Uffizi Gallery: The Uffizi Gallery, founded in Florence, Italy in 1581, by the De Medici family, is one of the oldest museums in the world. It holds the largest existing collection of Tuscan Renaissance paintings in the world. The web guide contains pictures, comments, biographies and a glossary of artistic movements and techniques. | |
| The Van Gogh Museum: The Van Gogh Museum houses the world’s largest collection of works by Vincent Van Gogh. The museum also has a large collection of works by other 19th century artists who were friends and contemporaries of Van Gogh. The web site has a virtual tour of the Museum. | |
Architecture |
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| 19th Century American Cultural History: This site contains decade by decade hypertext summaries of developments in art and architecture, literature, education, music, science, and more. | |
| 20th Century American Cultural History: This site contains decade by decade hypertext summaries of developments in art and architecture, literature, education, music, science, and more. | |
| Architecture Through the Ages: There are many different styles of architecture in the world. This web page discusses the many types of architecture and the many ways they have shaped our lives. In this comprehensive guide, you will learn about architecture from the great Maya to the building of the European cathedrals. | |
| Bauhaus Archives: The Bauhaus Archive/Museum of Design in Berlin is concerned with the research and presentation of the history and impact of the Bauhaus school of architecture, design, and art of the 20th century. | |
| Building Big: The website of a PBS mini-series exploring big structures and what it takes to build them, and includes links to interactive labs. | |
| Galinsky: Galinsky is a free service for people enjoying buildings worldwide. The pages are searchable and designed to help you find and enjoy some of the world's most exciting modern architecture, both on-line and in real life. Galinsky is for anyone with an interest in modern buildings and architecture, at any level of knowledge. The site uses no obscure architectural terms and is obsessed with architecture that has turned into real buildings that people can see and appreciate - not designs for their own sake. Includes photographs, descriptions, and practical visitor information . | |
| Great Buildings Collection: This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. | |
Photography |
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| 19th Century American Cultural History: This site contains decade by decade hypertext summaries of developments in art and architecture, literature, education, music, science, and more. | |
| 20th Century American Cultural History: This site contains decade by decade hypertext summaries of developments in art and architecture, literature, education, music, science, and more. | |
| Center for Creative Photography: Publisher -— University of Arizona. The Center for Creative Photography is an archive, museum and research center dedicated to photography as an art form and cultural record. This site offers exhibitions, collections and archives, education, a library, museum store and membership information. | |
| MagazineArt.org: "A free visual database of magazine cover art from the 19th and early 20th centuries." | |
Art - includes sites featuring two and three dimensional art |
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| About.com: Painting: A site loaded with art links and how to information on painting. | |
| Art Studio Chalkboard: This site has information for both artists and students, and an online introduction to the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting. | |
| Artcyclopedia: This web site explores 125,000 works of art, provides links to art museums and art web sites, and has monthly features that spotlight artists and articles about art. | |
| Artlex Art Dictionary: An art museum for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education. | |
| Ceramics and Pottery: A site for teachers, this includes a syllabus, and for each unit, assignments, handouts, online quizzes and activities, and a webliography. Also includes a gallery of student work. | |
| Ceramics Links: Princeton Online is a provider of links, teacher resources, and lesson plans for several of the differing ceramics "disciplines," from Sculptural and General Ceramics, to Southwest Native American, Oriental, and Mexican Pottery. A wonderful resource. | |
| Ceramics Today: "...a comprehensive independent ceramics site, but one with a long history." This site is the product of the former About.com Ceramics guide's articles and endless hours of scouring the Net for good ceramics information . | |
| Dreams of Space: This is not a science site. This site concentrates on book covers, artwork, and illustrations about space travel and exploration from the 19th century on. If you are working on space projects or need space related artwork it would be a good source for images. Includes links to other sites. | |
| Paper Forest - Art News and Ideas: A fun blog with lots of links to gorgeous downloadable origami, paper models, and other three-dimensional paper art. | |
| World Wide Art Resources: This site contains information about artists, museums, galleries, quality art, art history, arts education, antiques, dance, theater, and more. | |
Art History |
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| 19th Century American Cultural History: This site contains decade by decade hypertext summaries of developments in art and architecture, literature, education, music, science, and more. | |
| 20th Century American Cultural History: This site contains decade by decade hypertext summaries of developments in art and architecture, literature, education, music, science, and more. | |
| Americans for the Arts: America’s leading source for advancing the arts. The site provides links to other art advocacy groups, information about art in the U.S., and all kinds of helps and guides for teachers, students, and artists. | |
| Art History: A comprehensive art history web site complete with illustrations and critiques. | |
| Art Takes Time: A web site that links the visual arts to history and culture, and includes Art lesson plans. NOTE: This page is not currently being maintained. It exists, at this point, as an archived page at "The WayBack Machine." | |
| Art Studio Chalkboard: This site has information for both artists and students, and an online introduction to the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting. | |
| Artnet: Artnet is the place to buy, sell, and research fine art online. The Artnet Gallery Network is the largest of its kind, with over 1,300 galleries, 36,000 works and 13,000 artists from around the globe. | |
| Dreams of Space: This is not a science site. This site concentrates on book covers, artwork, and illustrations about space travel and exploration from the 19th century on. If you are working on space projects or need space related artwork it would be a good source for images. Includes links to other sites. | |
| MagazineArt.org: "A free visual database of magazine cover art from the 19th and early 20th centuries." | |
Ceramics and Pottery |
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| Ceramics and Pottery: A site for teachers, this includes a syllabus, and for each unit, assignments, handouts, online quizzes and activities, and a webliography. Also includes a gallery of student work. | |
| Ceramics Links: Princeton Online is a provider of links, teacher resources, and lesson plans for several of the differing ceramics "disciplines," from Sculptural and General Ceramics, to Southwest Native American, Oriental, and Mexican Pottery. A wonderful resource. | |
| Ceramics Today: "...a comprehensive independent ceramics site, but one with a long history." This site is the product of the former About.com Ceramics guide's articles and endless hours of scouring the Net for good ceramics information . |
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