ART
A. Pintura, Art Detective: The Case of
Grandpa's Painting
This site is best used as an interactive
game, since the only way to find information about the artists and artistic
concepts is by clicking through the pages of the story>
http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/
Academy of Achievement
This site brings you face to face with
the extraordinary individuals who have shaped our times. It is an amazing
collection, not of mere artifacts, but of people and ideas that fill you with
inspiration, encouragement, and the will to achieve
http://www.achievement.org/
Art on the Web
This site groups more than 1200 links to
art-related sites under a number of headings ranging from Ancient Art to Women
Artists.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Artweb_noframes.html
Art Source
A list of links to online journals,
electronic exhibitions, image collections, museum information, and art and
architecture programs and libraries.
http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/welcome.html
The Artchive
Click on Mona Lisa to access an
alphabetical list of artists. There are also links to exhibitions of
specific artists and time periods as well as works from different countries and
eras.
http://www.artchive.com
ArtCyclopedia
An excellent source for information on
all things art related. Search the collection of 80,000 images from over
7,500 artists.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
ArtLex
A dictionary of 3,600 art terms, complete
with images, a pronunciation guide, and quotations. You can use the search
engine and translator to navigate the terms, or use Shortcuts, an index to
longer articles.
http://www.artlex.com/
ArtServ
This is a site created by Michael
Greenlaugh, a professor of Art History at the Australian National
University. Dr. Greenlaugh has assembled this enoumous collection of
several thousand art and architecture images for use in the classroom. You
can browse by country, gallery, prints, architecture, medieval, and
miscellaneous to name a few.
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
Artswork
This site gives biographical information
on artists, architects, dancers, and more and also gives a brief explanation of
the importance of their work.
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/careers/careers16.htm
Biography: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni
This site traces the life of Michelangelo
from his birth to his triumph as architect of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica
in Rome. There are also links to his work and articles about his
contemporaries.
http://www.kfki.hu/%7Earthp/bio/m/michelan/biograph.html
Exploring Themes in American Art
This site is based on a videodisc titled
American Art from the National Gallery of Art. It covers ten themes
in American art: abstraction, the figure, historical subjects, landscape
painting, marine painting, portraiture, narrtive art, scenes from everyday life,
still life, and topographical views.
http://www.nga.gov/education/american/aasplash.htm
Learning @Whitney Kids
Study unique paintings, sculptures, and
photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Gallery has
images and a special zoom feature that enables users to examine interesting
details. Find facts about artists, questions to explore, and directions to
create unique media. Listen lets students review an audio description of a
painting, such as "Early Sunday Morning" by Edward Hopper. The Timeline
offers historical, social, and cultural information related to images from 1900
to the present.
http://whitney.org/learning/kids.php
Museums Around the World
This is an eclectic collection of Web sites
connected from museums around the world. The museums are organized by
country and continent.
http://www.icom.org/vlmp/world.html
National Gallery of Art Kids
This site has activities and projects for each
of ten very different works of art. There is an interactive story tour of
the museum's sculpture garden and an activity that uses the model of charades to
help students guess the subject of a modern piece by Frank Stella. Explore
shape and color in a Kandinsky painting, examine Jacques-Louis David's portrait
of Napolean for clues about what the artist thought of his subject; or
investigate the world of the five senses through a painting by Martin Johnson
Heade.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm
Smithsonian Institution
This site is as massive and magnificent
as the museum itself. There is a virtual tour, a place to browse by
department, date, text, or artist, and many links to other museums. It
also has a large online collection of images.
http://www.si.edu/
Timeline of Art History
Created by the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, this site explores art history from prehistoric times to 1800 A.D.
Don't miss the "Special Topics" section which provides articles on specific
themes that will be useful for students, such as, movements, periods, media, and
artists.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
Web Gallery of Art
This web site has an a to z search grid
of artist biographies.
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/m/michelan/biograph.html