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Art History

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning

Gallery of traditional African art with excellent descriptions.

The Ancient World Web: Main Index

Lots of files arranged by broad categories with fascinating information such as the history of wishbones, the duties of women in ancient Greece and how to spell your name in hieroglyphics.

Art History Resources-1

Part one is a chronologic list of links (by subject or artist) to images and information on the internet web.

Art History Resources-2

Part two lists other art resources on the internet.

Arts of China

Colorful examples of the arts and culture of China.

Asian Arts

Excellent electronic journal listing exhibits, galleries, and articles about all forms of Asian art.

Australian Art Sites

Guide to links to library catalogues, electronic journals, general art sites, art schools, galleries and museums.

Exploring the Mandala

Explaination of the Tibetan Mandala and the construction of a three dimensional model.

Mother of All Art History Link Pages

Interesting links to other art history resources.

Mummies

The Mummy Master

Palaeolithic painted cave at Vallon - Pont-d'Arc ( Ardèche )

Information and images of this site of prehistoric cave paintings.

PartheNET

Excellent list of art history sites listed by time period.

Sistine Chapel Tour

Excellent photographs of all the artists' work in the Sistine Chapel - not just Michelangelo - with back ground information.

Styles in American Architecture

Vatican Museums

Vast excellent site for images found in the Vatican collections- contains also Egyptian and Greek art.

Art Techniques

Aunt Annie's Craft Page

Directions for many types of crafts.

CraftWeb Home Page

Links to crafts groups, artists, galleries, etc.

Joseph Wu's Origami Page

Directions for many origami projects arranged by difficulty.

Perspective Drawing

Lessons with diagrams for teaching perspective and links to famous paintings illustrating principles of perspective.

Stage Hand Puppets Activity Page

Directions for creating and preforming with many types of puppets.

Woodworking at WoodWeb

Information for woodworkers including sources of supply and an index of woods of the world.

Beginnings Of Folkart In The United States

Dictionary of Art Terms

FOLK ART

Exhibitions

African Art

Yoruba and Akan Art in Wood and Metal found at the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria, Illinois. http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/africart/home.html

AFRO-Americ@: Art Gallery

Features work of Afro American artists. http://www.afroam.org/culture/artgallery/archive1/artgallery.html

Art on the Net

Current exhibits of contemporary artists,their studios, soundbytes, etc. http://www.art.net/Welcome.html

Gargoyle Home Page

Interesting site about medieval and modern stone carving. http://ils.unc.edu/garg/garghp4.html

Isaacs/Innuit Gallery-Internet

Sculptures, Prints Drawings, Wallhangings, and Baskets of the Innuit (Eskimo) people. http://www.novator.com/UC-Catalog/Isaacs-Catalog/Isaacs-Internet.html

Kodak: Sample Digital Images

Examples of digitally altered photographs. http://www.kodak.com/digitalImages/samples/samples.shtml

Native American Artists

This gallery presents current artworks and statements by Native American artists. http://www.artnatam.com/artist.html

Virtual Ceramics Exhibit

Exhibit of images of ceramics with biographical info about the artists. http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/vce/welcome.html

Webseum of Holography

Informative hologram gallery. http://www.holoworld.com/

 

Internet Art Resources

Arts Wire: Online Communications for the Arts

Lists arts related newsgroups. http://www.tmn.com/0h/Artswire/www/awfront.html

ArtSource

Selected art and architecture resources on the internet. http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/welcome.html

ArtsUSA

Arts Council of America's home page links, education information, artist's hotline, arts links , discussion groups, etc. http://www.artsusa.org/

Crayola Creativity Central

Eyes on Art

Excellent art aesthetics and criticisms exercises to be used with students K-12.http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2/index.html

FineArt Forum Directory of Online Art Resources

Alphabetical list (frequently updated) of online art resources. http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/art-resources/

Instructional Materials in Art

Internet for the Fine Arts

Network of listings for on-line artists, galleries, museums and resources for the fine arts. http://www.fine-art.com/

Internet GalleryWalk

Allows searching of the internet by artist, gallery, medium, subject or geographic location. http://artresources.com/guide/gallerywalk.html-ssi

McREL's Arts

Mid-continent Regional Education Laboratory list of Arts links - see Visual Arts sub-heading. http://www.mcrel.org/resources/links/arts/

World Wide Arts Resources

Extensive list of arts links on the world wide web. http://wwar.com/

Mark Harden's Artchive

A useful collection of articles and some 2,300 scans of art images by more than 200 artists.

Schoolart Teaching Art Education Lessons and Ideas for Teachers

ArtsConnectEd

The Minneapolic Institute of Art and the Walker Art Center created this wonderful resource to allow different learning styles to be influenced by art. The art gallery allows visitors to create their own online gallery of their favorite pieces, while the Playground lets users create a variety of different types of artwork. Older students will love the interactive art activity in "Another Look" in the Look and Listen part of the Playground. Explore online or download the Teacher's Guide.

Bembo's Zoo

Check out these neat animations. Generate interest in graphic art.

Color, Contrast, and Dimension

Nice interactive site explaining color theory.

Museum Information