ArtDaily: As the First Art Newspaper on the Net, Artdaily offers guides to artists, museums and the latest news in art around the world.
Art History: Barbara Strong, Art History and Anthroplogy Instructor has provided this site devoted to the history of Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Periods and the Art of the Ancient Near East.
ArtLex Art
Dictionary: "Reference material in art, art history, art
criticism, aesthetics, and art education. Definitions of thousands
of terms, illustrations, quotations, and links to other resources."
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: "The
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in
the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. Its holdings
include nearly 15,000 treasures spanning 6,000 years of history,
representing cultures throughout Asia."
Beazley Archive:
"The premier online source for serious scholarly research in classical art and archaeology. This site holds digital representations of the archival collections of Sir John Beazley, an important taxonomist of ancient Greek vase painting."
Berkeley Art
Museum and Pacific Film Archive: An in-depth guide to large
film and art collections on the Internet including many archival
documents.
Brian Hayes: Established in 1976, Brian's pottery studio is located on five acres of rolling foothills near Coloma, California. In 1989 he made the first of four trips to Japan to work with potters and fire wood burning kilns. Studio projects are done in stoneware and porcelain clays, designed and created without apprentices or hired hands. A former full-time instructor at El Dorado Center in Placerville, Brian now teaches short-term classes at his studio in Coloma.
Buddhist
Art: Featured on this interactive site are approximately
90 pieces of sculpture, painting, ritual implements and textiles
from India, China, Tibet, Korea, Thailand and Japan from the
Seattle Art Museum's Permanent Collection. The exhibit illustrates
the spectacular development of Buddhist arts and trace the influence
of indigenous artistic styles and materials over 2,200 years.
Crocker Art Museum:"The
Crocker Art Museum is dedicated to promoting an awareness of and
enthusiasm for human experience through art. As the leading arts
institution in the Sacramento Valley, the Crocker serves as the primary
regional resource for the study and appreciation of fine art, with
an emphasis on the original Crocker family donation of California
art and European drawings, contemporary northern California art and,
more recently, of East Asian painting and international ceramics."
de Young Museum:
The de Young Museum features exhibits such as American Paintings,
American Sculpture, Decorative Art, African Art, Art of the Americas,
Oceanic, Textiles, and the Dorothy and George Saxe Collection of
Contemporary Craft collection.
Dictionary of Art Historians: A biographical and methodological database intended as a beginning point to learning the background of major art historians of western art history. It is a free, copyrighted scholarly database for the use of researchers, students and the public.
Harvard University
Art Museums: A tour of Fogg Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum,
Arthur M. Sackler Museum and Straus Center for Conservation.
Holocaust
and the Arts:
Information and resources on the arts during the Holocaust; links provided by Intute Scholarly Search Engine.
Impressionism and the Making of Modern Art:
This site provides a series of virtual exhibits that explore the development of Impressionism and its influence on other art genres designed by Princeton undergraduates. Compiled by Professor Kay Chubbuck of Princeton University.
Kimbell Art Museum: This site provides a visual tour of the Precolumbian Art Collection housed at the Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
Legion of Honor: "The
Legion of Honor, San Francisco's most beautiful museum, displays
an impressive collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art
in an unforgettable setting overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. Built
to commemorate Californian soldiers who died in World War I, the
Legion of Honor is a beautiful Beaux-arts building located in San
Francisco's Lincoln Park. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Golden Gate
Bridge and all of San Francisco, the Legion is most noted for its
breathtaking setting. Its collections include Rodin's Thinker, which
sits in the museum's Court of Honor, European decorative arts and
paintings, Ancient art, and one of the largest collections of prints
and drawings in the country."
Louvre
Museum: "The Louvre is the largest and most international art museum in the world." Open since 1793, the Louvre, located in Paris, France, is truly a universal institution. "Universal in the scope of its collections, it is also universal in its appeal to some 6 million visitors every year: a 21st-century museum rooted in 200 years of innovation."
Margaret Welty: "Currently an art professor at Folsom Lake College, Margaret also creates, directs and hosts the TV show, Art Creativity and You, now in its fourth season in the Sacramento region." To view Margaret's Fall 2009 teaching schedule, go to the Folsom Lake College website.
Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Explore the works of art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art browsing through the collection database of more than 30,000 art works from the Metropolitan's permanent collection, or search for information on a specific work.
Museum
of Modern Art:
"This museum has one of the most comprehensive collections of modern art.
The Museum of Modern Art's collection has grown to include over
150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural
models and drawings, and design objects."
National Gallery of Art: A tour
of the gallery's current exhibitions plus their complete collection
of painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to
the present, combining in-depth studies of artists and their works.
National Museum of Women in the Arts: "The
National Museum of Women in the Arts has a long standing commitment
to providing the public with in-depth educational materials relating
to the arts and the ways women play an important role within them."
Nineteenth Century
Art Worldwide: "A
scholarly,
refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century
painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture,
and decorative arts across the globe. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is
published by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century
Art (AHNCA). Most members are university professors,
lecturers and graduate students, independent scholars, and museum
curators. Click here for more information about
AHNCA"
Pre-Columbian Art: This site showcases a collection of Pre-Columbian art provided by the "Jay I. Kislak Foundation, a private nonprofit cultural institution engaged in the collection, conservation, research and interpretation of rare books, manuscripts, maps and indigenous art and cultural artifacts of the Americas and other parts of the world."
Princeton University Art Museum: "The primary mission of the Princeton University Art Museum is to effectively support and enhance the university’s goals of teaching, research, and service. The museum does this through the study, preservation, conservation, exhibition, and development of its collections."
Rijks
Museum, Amsterdam: A major European Museum site with collections
in Painting, Prints, Sculpture, Asiatic Art and Dutch History.
This site also includes over 1,200 art exhibits which can be viewed
in English or French.
San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art: "This site delves into new terrain not only by providing
timely and relevant information about visiting and enjoying the
physical museum itself — our exhibitions, collections, educational
activities, and public programs — but also as home for a
special online gallery we call e.space. E.space was created exclusively
for the Web and explores new art forms that exist only in cyberspace.
E.space projects explore the new forms of storytelling in a space
delineated by the personal computer screen, and investigate new
models for the transposing of the notion of an online exhibition."
Seattle Art Museum: SAM
collects and exhibits objects from across cultures,
exploring the connections between past and present.
Currently the collection consists of approximately 23,000 objects.
Smithsonian Encyclopedia:
The Smithsonian Institute has developed an A-Z encyclopedia that
includes information in the following general categories: Art;
Design; History; Culture; Science; and Technology.
Search over 2 million records, with 210,500 images, video and sound files from dozens of Smithsonian museums, archives, and libraries
Words
of Art: Dictionary of art terms prepared by the Department
of Fine Arts at Okanagan University College.
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