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Art a GoGo

http://www.artagogo.com/

"Art over easy" -- this site provides links to museums, events, exhibitions, and ways to learn about art in an easy-to-read, jargon-free style.

Author: Kathleen & Doug Lang (kathleen@artagogo.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Arts & Humanities--Museum Studies

Keywords: Image; Exhibition; Review; Painting; Sculpture; Criticism; Career; Conservation

Art Industri

http://www.artindustri.com/frames.htm

"The world of art at your fingertips." A comprehensive site with everything you ever wanted to know about art. Includes directories of artists, icons and motifs, movements, resources, and more.

Author: Art Industri Group

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

The Artchive

http://www.artchive.com/

Over 2,000 scanned images of fine art, historical background on art and artists, theory and criticism, and rotating "gallery" exhibitions.

Author: Mark Harden (mastersofphotography@webgalleries.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Keywords: art; art history; art theory; art criticism; art images; painting

Artcyclopedia

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Over 700 leading arts sites indexed to create a searchable, thorough database of online images of visual art and the locations of the original works worldwide.

Author: John Malyon (jmalyon@artcyclopedia.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Keywords: Exhibitions; Sculpture; Painting; Image; Drawing; Museum; Gallery

ArtNet

http://www.artnet.com/

Excellent resource for images, artist biographies, auction results, art books for sale, galleries and museum exhibitions, and art research resources, with a focus on contemporary art and artists.

Author: Bill Fine (bfine@artnet.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Keywords: Gallery; Exhibition; Bookstore; Auction; Painting; Sculpture; Image; Design

AskART

http://www.askart.com/

AskART.com is the world's most comprehensive database about North American artists... On the 'Profile Page' for each of our 24,000 artists, we give as much general information as we have been able to find in the last 17 years: Dates, states, methods, biographies, subjects for which best known, a decade by decade breakdown of 20th century literature in which they are referenced, and total number of auction lots sold and unsold of their works." Also find out dealers who are affiliated with each artist, museums where their works are held, and, for some artists, image galleries of their works. Contact information is provided for the dealers and museums.

Author: AskART.com (info@askart.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Keywords: American; United States

Dictionary of Art Terms

http://www.aliceville.com/artdic_0.htm

A useful dictionary of art terms compiled by an artist. Terms are organized alphabetically; click on a letter to find definitions.

Author: John Earl (jentrekin@argoenterprise.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Keywords: Terms; Glossary; Reference; Painting; Sculpture

History of Modern Art and Architecture

http://scitech.mtroyal.ab.ca/modernart/index_mac.html

This site, developed by art history instructors at Mount Royal College, provides a historical overview of major movements in art and architecture of the Modern period. Extensive links to information about artists and images are provided. A good place to start researching twentieth-century artistic styles and movements.

Author: Frank Harks, Randy Connolly, Doris Hawkins and Jen Hilchey

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Architecture

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Keywords: Painting; Sculpture; Modern; Modernism; Twentieth Century

Mary Evans Picture Library (MEPL)

http://www.mepl.co.uk/

"One of the world's leading commercial sources for historic images. Our collection includes scenes from prehistory to the Gulf War and specialist areas including Paranormal, Freud and UFO's. We have 50,000 pictures accessible via our online search." Although there is a fee involved in acquiring the images for use, you can search for and view the images online for free (after registering). "The collection is especially strong and noted for iconic historic images- medical photography and images of the dark side of life - Death, Disease, Disaster, Mayhem, Crime, Racism. Revolution, Riots, War."

Author:

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)

http://www.nmwa.org/

"The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. In the pages that follow you will discover a wealth of information about the museum, selected artists, our collection, and many services. You may choose to examine images of works from our permanent collection, or take a tour of the museum with Founder Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. Artist profiles feature the lives of selected women artists and corresponding bibliographies lead you to new sources of information."

Author: NMWA (NMWAmem@aol.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women--Careers

Keywords: Paintings; Sculpture; Photography

Pictures Catalogue: The National Library of Australia's Pictorial Collection

http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/

"This catalogue contains descriptions of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and three-dimensional objects held in the Pictorial Collection of the National Library of Australia. The emphasis is on Australian material, with some material relating to New Zealand, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. The main time period covered is late eighteenth century to the present day. The Collection includes thousands of portraits of significant Australians. The Pictorial Collection contains approximately 45,000 paintings and 550,000 photographs; most of this material has been catalogued with individual descriptions or collection summaries. All these descriptions and summaries can be searched on this database. Of the material that has been catalogued, over 30,000 items have been digitised. These images are available through this catalogue, for research and study purposes."

Author: National Library of Australia (www@nla.gov.au)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Smithsonian Archives of American Art (AAA)

http://artarchives.si.edu/start.htm

"The collections of the Archives of American Art comprise the largest source in the world of primary source documentation on the visual arts in America. Contained in the over five thousand collections, are letters, diaries, sketches and sketchbooks, photographs, exhibition catalogs, scrapbooks, business records, art periodicals, and other types of documents, totaling roughly fourteen million items. The collections, combined with approximately three thousand interviews done for AAA's oral history program, and nearly one thousand photographs in AAA's Photographs of Artists Collections, are an endless treasure trove of raw material for art historians and scholars in other fields to explore."

Author: Smithsonian Institution (webmaster@si.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Keywords: Research; Document; Artists; United States

the-artists.org

http://www.the-artists.org/

the-artists.org features an "extended database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists. The masters of the past hundred years are represented with their portrait, dates and places of birth and death, with links to webresources to find anything you want to know about them, with images of their work, comprehensive biographies and articles, and if it exists, the artist's personal website."

Author:

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Reference--Biographies--Artists & Architects

Keywords: visual art; artists; twentieth century art; biography

University of Virginia, Bayly Art Museum: Virtual Exhibitions

http://www.uva.edu/~bayly/

Five online exhibitions: "Universes in Collision: Men and Women in 19th-Century Japanese Prints", "In Our Time: Contemporary Art from the Bayly Art Museum Collections", "The Power of Woe, the Power of Life: Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to the Present", "African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning", and "The Art of the African Mask". Each exhibit includes extensive text and digital images. "In Our Time" exhibit includes QuickTime VR(QTVR) interactive browsing.

Author: University of Virginia, Bayly Art Museum (jc2z@virginia.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

WebMuseum

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/

The WebMuseum is a non-profit collaborative effort on the part of many museums and galleries worldwide to provide access to visual images tht are out of copyright. Images, exhibitions, an index of artists, and a glossary of art terms may be found here.

Author: Nicolas Pioch

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Visual Arts

Arts & Humanities--Museum Studies

Keywords: Gallery; Image; Painting; Sculpture; International; Artists; Exhibition

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