General Art Resources Primarily a search engine for finding images from specific artists, this site is also helpful for finding information about different art movements (e.g. Impressionists, OpArt, etc).
Art and Architecture links from NOBLE: the North of Boston Library Exchange
This site is designed to help students learn to look at artwork and understand the process of making art. Click on Reviews and Resources to access dozens of activities for students to teach, review, and reinforce material presented in the three areas: the elements of art; principles of design; and the art critiquing process. Also included are an art timeline and vocabulary
section.
Lesson plans, multimedia presentations, scavenger hunts, quizzes and more for teaching an Introduction to Ceramics and Pottery course.
Encyclopedias
Free encyclopedia that provides more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - provided by HighBeam Research.
The world’s largest free reference site where you can find facts on thousands of subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, business, education, and health.
Art History Links to
artistic eras and artists from prehistory to the present. Includes 20th century illustrators.
Hundreds of links to resources in all eras and civilizations, created and maintained by Christopher Whitcombe, professor of Art history at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
"A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection." Now extends from prehistory to 1600. Great for art history and global studies.
Artists
Biographies and "virtual tours" of the work of five important Impressionist painters.
One of two women and the only American Impressionist painter.
Recognized as one of America’s most important and successful artists.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (b. 1881, d. 1973) is probably the most important figure in 20th Century art. A successful painter by age 50, no painter before him had a mass audience in his own lifetime.
French Impressionist painter from late 1800s-early 1900s.
Animation and Cartooning Learn how to draw and animate, and discover the shortcuts and secrets of animators through these great online tutorials.
Making Movies Exposure The Internet resource for low-budget filmmakers. Information on festivals, articles on film-making, and links to useful resources.
Museums This link goes directly to the search engine for the collections at the MFA.
Take a tour of the most famous museum in the world, and learn about some of the masterpieces within its walls.
Explore more than 3,500 pieces of art from the varied collections of this world-class museum in New York.
New York's museum of modern and contemporary art, including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photos, architectural models and drawings, decorative arts, and furniture.
Located in Washington, D.C., this is the nation's art gallery, with collections of painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present.
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