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Art Resources
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- about.com (searcher & lots of links)
- Art Adventures (lesson plans, activities, and much more)
- Art and Architecture ("links to art, architecture, painting, sculptures, graphic arts, modern art and photography")
- Art History Resources on the Web @ Sweet Briar College (tons of links to art history from prehistoric times to present; museums for artists, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education ("definitions of more than 2,800 terms here, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web")
- Art Junction (a collaborative art space for teachers and students)
- Artlinx (the ultimatum compendium of art links)
- Art of the United States ("very comprehensive .. art history .. lots of project ideas to reinforce your understanding of the art of the United States ... American Landscape Painting, Cowboy Art, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Op Art, Happenings, Conceptual, Minimal, Decorative and other American Art Movements")
- ArtNet (forum for artists to interface and share their work)
- ARTnetNebraska (an online resource for general classroom teachers and art specialists,
focusing on the exploration, integration and application of the visual arts
in education settings)
- ArtPromote.com (Art resources, links, tips, artists, works--"a searchable directory listing thousands of contemporary artists, galleries, and art organizations. The directory is divided into over 200 categories divided by subject, medium, movement, nationality, or type of organization.")
- Art Teacher on the Net ("Award Winning, Highly Recommended Art Lesson Plans and Art Education Website for Teachers, Parents, Scouts, and Group Leaders. Free Art Resources, Art Projects, Art Expert Advice, Teacher Exchange, and More.")
- Barry's Clip Art (free clipart and animations)
- Celeste's Holiday Graphic Collection
- Cinema - How are Hollywood films made? by Annenberg/CPB Exhibits ("Join us as we explore this creative process, from the screenwriter's words to the editor's final cut. Write your own dialogue for a scene or put yourself in a producer's shoes by managing the production of a film.")
- Crayola Art Education (techniques, lessons, free materials, etc.)
- Cultronix ("Cultronix is a journal of art, art criticism and cultural theory.")
- Desktop Publishing (clipart, utilities, reviews, software, fonts, etc.)
- EducationWorld - Lesson Plan Center (searcher and links ... check left margin for your subject area)
- Glyphs (reviews and samples of famous artists)
- Graffiti.org: Art Crimes - The Writing on the Wall ("more than 2000 images online from more than 80 cities around the world")
- Houghton Mifflin: Activity Search (K-8: 400+ activities and lesson plans)
- Kinder Art ("a truly interactive experience ... students and kids.. have fun while exchanging ideas, finding information, conducting research and learning things ... Architecture, Art Book, Artists/Art History, Crafty Ideas, Cross Curriculum, Drama, Drawing, Multicultural, Painting, Printmaking, Recycling, Seasonal, Sculpture, Art Quiz, Art Trivia", etc.)
- LessonPlansPage (slow loading but lots of lesson plans .. suggestion: open each in window so that you don't have to reload main page each time)
- Marine Art Information Center ("gallery of 100 marine watercolours and paintings supplemented by information on maritime art: auctions, galleries, history, photography, reference materials and museums")
- McCanna's free art site (free clipart, software, tips, type faces, links, animation, etc.)
- Media History Project: promoting the study of media history from petroglyphs to pixels (timelines, history, pictures, links, etc.)
- Quia ("a great starting point for users ... a collection of thousands of activities categorized into 40 subject areas ... more than 400,000 activities)
- SITO Art Project @ sunsite (works of various independent artists)
- SITO Art Project @ sito (works of various independent artists)
- Teachers Helping Teachers (lesson plans)
- Teachnet.Com: Lesson Ideas - Art
- TrackStar by HPR*TEC ("your starting point for online, interactive lessons. Create your own Track or build upon any of the thousands of Tracks created by other teachers across America for a quick and easy lesson plan." ... lessons & standards)
- WideWorld Art @ justart ("WORLDWIDE ART exhibits .. international
- contemporary artists ... ART'S VIEW is the Internet's premiere art Webzine .. stories about artists in all mediums ... WORLD GALLERIES .. list of fine art galleries from around the world")
- World Wide Arts Resources ("We provide the largest and most comprehensive gateway to the arts on the Internet")
- World Wide Arts Resources ("provides the definitive gateway to arts information and culture ")
- Yahoo's Art education links
- Yahoo's Music education links
- Yahoo's Visual Arts links
- YLEM ("YLEM is a non-profit artists' networking organization centered in the San Francisco Bay Area.We are an international organization of artists, scientists, authors, curators, educators, and art enthusiasts who explore the intersection of the arts and sciences. YLEM members work in art media such as computers, kinetic sculpture, interactive art, holograms, robotics, 3-D media, film, and video. Ylem's web site provides an opportunity for members to have a web presence as well as providing an archive of past letters, Opportunities, and links to other areas of interest.")
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Art Appreciation / History
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- A. A. Art (paintings and still life in Flemish painting technique, free images)
- African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning (online museum, pure aesthetics and elements of shape, texture, form)
- Ambrose Mythology Slide Lectures (slides of classic mythological art)
- ArtAdventures (lesson plans, activities, etc.)
- Art Gallery ("many paintings (350+), covering the Italian Renaissance and more ... all the paintings are in high resolution and well-detailed" ... featuring these artists: Fra Angelico, Giovanni Bellini, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Eugène Burnand, Michelangelo Merisi, Cimabue, William Congdon, Ambrogio da Fossano, Gentile Da Fabriano, Leonardo Da Vinci, Piero Della Francesca, Duccio Di Boninsegna, Maso Di Banco, Sano Di Pietro, Giotto, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Simone Martini, Masaccio, Masolino Da Panicale, Andrea Pisano, Jacopo Carrucci, Rembrandt, Raffaello Santi)
- Art History Network (art history, archaeology and fine art resources links)
- Art History Resources on the Web @ Sweet Briar College (tons of links to art history from prehistoric times to present; museums & research resources, prehistoric, ancient, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, prints & photography, non-European, museums & galleries)
- Art History Resources on the Web (LOTs of links)
- Lili Brochetain Collection of Nonconformist Russian Art of the1960s-80s (pictures & history)
- Ministere de la Culture: age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums (history, pictures)
- Mother of All Art History Links (400+ links)
- Ovid Project (book engravings from Ovid's Metamorphoses)
- Oz's Kingdom: Art & Galleries (lots of links, teacher resources, etc.)
- Renaissance - What inspired this age of balance and order? by Annenberg/CPB Exhibits ("During the era known by this name, Europe emerged from the economic stagnation of the Middle Ages and experienced a time of financial growth. Also, and perhaps most importantly, the Renaissance was an age in which artistic, social, scientific, and political thought turned in directions. Join us as we explore the Renaissance and discover the forces that drove this rebirth in Europe, and in Italy in particular.")
- World Wide Art Resources: Art History Resources ("thousands of historically oriented resources")
- Yahoo's Art education links
- Yahoo's Art: Artist Masters links
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Museums, Galleries & Collections
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- Art Guide: The Art Lovers Guide to Britain and Ireland ("organised by artist, by museum, and geographically ... contains: more than 1,900 named artists, more than 650 museums, more than 4,500 individual listings, comprehensive exhibitions listings")
- Art History Resources on the Web @ Sweet Briar College (tons of links to art history from prehistoric times to present; museums & research resources, prehistoric, ancient, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, prints & photography, non-European, museums & galleries)
- Asian Arts ("on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia")
- Christus Rex (links to Vatican museums, Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, etc., ... "dedicated to the dissemination of information on works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and monasteries all over the world" .. many other church links)
- Detroit Institute of the Arts ("the fifth-largest fine arts museum in the United States with holdings of over 60,000 works. Within its more than one hundred galleries are paintings, sculpture, and graphic and decorative arts that reveal the scope and depth of human experience, imagination and emotion.")
- EducationWorld - Visual Arts
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) is the city's largest public arts institution)
- Guggenheim Museums ("Guggenheim's and the Pompidou's collections represents the history of Western art from the turn of the century ... more than 300 paintings, sculptures, and drawings by more than 150 artists")
- Harvard University Art Museums
- LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Leonardo da Vinci Museum ("true Fine Art Museum .. only original paintings made by famous and well-known Artists from the Renaissance to modern Art")
- Metropolitan Museum of Art ( York City)
- MuseumNet - welcome to the world of museums ("an information resource for people with an interest in museums" of all types in the United Kingdom ... a-to-z listing or by region .. includes "name, address, telephone, fax, email, and major collections")
- MOMA: Museum of Modern Art, York ("more than 100,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects")
- National Archaelogical Museum of Athens ("home of the largest collection of American art in the world ... over 37,500 works-represent the most inclusive collection of American art of any general museum today, reflecting the nation's ethnic, geographic, cultural, and religious diversity")
- National Gallery of Art, Washington DC ("houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present")
- Philadelphia Museum of Art ("over 300,000 works of art encompassing some of the greatest achievements of human creativity, and offers a wealth of exhibitions and education programs for a public of all ages")
- Rodin Museum (with QuickTime tours - see bottom of page)
- Tate Gallery ("around 8000 works .. collection of historic British art ranges from the sixteenth century to the present day ... major works by Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, Wright of Derby, Blake, Palmer, Constable, the Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler, and Sargent ... holds the largest collection of paintings, drawings and watercolours by JMW Turner")
- Treasures of the Louvre (tour, history, info, etc.)
- Web Gallery of Art (3500+ digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1200 and 1700)
- Web Museum Network (choose site for faster connection .. Paul Cézanne artwork, Medieval art and Famous Paintings)
- World Art Treasures ("100,000 slides .. devoted to art, and including the main civilizations, such as Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe")
- World Wide Art Resources: Gallery & Exhibit Resources ("non commercial galleries and exhibitions index page will lead you to thousands of visual arts related resources")
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Graphic Design
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- Cagle: Teachers' Guide for the Professional Cartoonist ("largest collection of spaper editorial cartoons on the web ... lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels -- .. plans include games like scavenger hunts, tic tac toe and cartoon bingo, which engage students as they explore and interpret the symbolism in cartoons .. include all necessary pages to print out as student handouts")
- about.com: Desktop Publishing (lesson plans, fonts, s, etc.)
- about.com: Graphic Design (searcher & lots of links)
- GDUSA (Graphic Design: the news magazine for the creative professional)
- What is Graphic Design? ("AIGA, the professional association for design, is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice.")
- World Wide Art Resources: Commercial Arts Resources ("thousands of commercially oriented resources")
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Cartooning
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- about.com: Cartooning (searcher & lots of links)
- Cagle: Teachers' Guide for the Professional Cartoonist ("largest collection of spaper editorial cartoons on the web ... lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels -- .. plans include games like scavenger hunts, tic tac toe and cartoon bingo, which engage students as they explore and interpret the symbolism in cartoons .. include all necessary pages to print out as student handouts")
- Cartoon Connections (cartooning basics, lessons, coloring pages, student galleries, classroom handouts, and much more)
- Comics and Cartooning (Learn from top cartoonists how to draw comic characters. Free online art lessons from your Homeschooling Guide.)
- Teachers' Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index ("unique resource with the largest collection of spaper editorial cartoons on the web", links, lesson plans)
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Computer Graphics
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Illustration
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Drawing & Sketching
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Painting
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- A. A. Art (learn how to paint in classical oil painting technique on line)
- about.com: Painting (searcher & lots of links)
- Art History Resources on the Web @ Sweet Briar College (tons of links to art history from prehistoric times to present; museums & research resources, prehistoric, ancient, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, prints & photography, non-European, museums & galleries)
- KinderArt.com (Painting lessons, ideas, crafts and activities for kids of all ages)
- Visual Art: Paintings (An incredible collection of fine art paintings.View painters sites from around the world.)
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Arts & Crafts
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Ceramic Arts - Pottery
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- AMOCA: American Museum of Ceramic Art
- Ceramic Arts (Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture and Functional Pottery)
- Pottery: The Basics
- Wikipedia: Pottery (ceramic ware made by potters-in everyday usage the term is taken to encompass a wide range of ceramics, including earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain. The places where such wares are made are called potteries)
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Fashion Design & History
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Sculpture
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Jewelry & Metals
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- ArtMetal Village - Arts & Crafts in the Metal Decorative Arts ("focus is on the interests of artisans, the public and suppliers. The commonality of these interests here is metal, and it's applicable uses in both the fine arts and crafts" ... Hot Forging, Welding, Fabrication, Machining, Precision, Jewelry, Casting, Cold Forging, Architectural, Design, Sculpture, links & resources)
- about.com: Jewelry Making (searcher & lots of links)
- Jewelry Making Projects (learn to make beautiful gemstone and bead jewelry through our step by step projects)
- Jewelry Metal Information (What you need to know about jewelry metals- Discover the differences between gold, platinum, titanium and silver. Understand yellow, rose and white gold in 9kt, 14kt & 18kt)
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