ARTISTS - ART STYLES

Artists Interviews Hear interviews of selected painters, photographers, sculptors and architect. At each interview, you can get the text of the interview by clicking further links. From the BBC.

Artcyclopedia
Search by artist, nationality, art style or movement, medium, and subject. Quality site with links to other sites on the Web about your selected topic. Make Artcyclopedia your first stop. Most Popular American Artists - listed on Artcyclopedia

Modern Art Timeline - from The-Artist.org. Click on movement to get suggested artists. Of course many movements overlap.
Knowledge Network Classroom Internet Library
Links for sites on dance, music and visual arts. Visual Art Resources. Includes Lesson plan activities links.
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden
Artist index for a select sampling of images from the more than 12,000 original artworks in the collection. Exhibit is currently offline.
Art Image Sources

Carol Gerten- Fine Arts
Scanned art images- some biographical information about artists. If one site is "down" check a mirror site

Olga's Gallery Listing of artists This site has many quality images (has advertising) World Literature in Painting Greek and Roman myths references (Site was down last I checked)

AICT: Art Images for College Teaching
Royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community - images of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque Art and more.

Artchive - scanned art images by Mark Harden
List of artists in left frame.

Access Art: American Art to 1900 The objects in The Art Institute of Chicago’s collection of American art range from skillful portraits and finely crafted furniture of the colonial period to sculptures and landscape and genre paintings of the 19th and early 20th centuries. This site gives detailed information for twelve works -- includes lesson plans and glossary.

American Artists - listed on Artcyclopedia Selected American Artists.

A Teacher's Guide to American Art - information about twenty-four objects that represent American art from colonial times to the Civil War period - accompanied by lesson plans. From Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.

American History - Image Archives and Public Domain Images.

American Impressionism At the National Gallery of Art, tour a virtual exhibit of American Impressionists with paintings by Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, John Twatchman and other artists.

American Portraits - A Brush with History - portraits from this Smithsonian collection date from the 1720s to the 1990s. The 76 paintings vary in style and technique and form a narrative about American portraiture in all its variety. Site includes lesson plans.

Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by Herblock - small selection of some of Herb Block's renderings may be viewed at this site, which complements an exhibit at the American Treasures Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Exploring American Art Themes - National Gallery of Art. Abstraction , the Figure, Portraiture, Landscape, Historical, Still life and more.

Inspiring Visions: Artists' Views of the American West Carter Museum.

Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art
Virtual Museum of Canada - site available in English, French and Spanish. View by themes or preview all of the images

American Landscape Lesson Plan - the Smithsonian. Excellent!

Smithsonian American Art Museum Online Exhibits America's Art - companion Web site to a new book, America's Art.

Visual Thinking: Sketches and Sketchbooks - a summary of approximately 2,800 volumes of sketchbooks and 7,500 loose sketches by over 450 artists in the Archives of American Art.

Art History Resources

Comprehensive list of Art History links on the Web
By Christopher Witcombe, Professor of art history, Sweet Briar College

What is Art? What is an Artist? An exhibition exploring the perception of art and the identity of the artist through history
and in contemporary society. From Sweet Briar College

Art History Community Learning Network -- links to information about Art History

Mother of All Art History Links Research resources, image collections, online exhibits and more! From University of Michigan.

Painting the Weather - Theme page from BBC - by artist

Fairy Painting - genre of fairy painting from Victorian times on Wikipedia website. Victorian and contemporary artists listed. Only names of artists in blue have pages on Wikipedia (encyclopedia made up cooperatively by anyone who wants to contribute).
Art of the First World War - A Guided Tour - 100 paintings featured. The aim of this exhibition is not to review the facts of the war, but to show how they were portrayed by artists on either side of the front line, and indicating the difficulties involved.

World War II Posters The Government Publications Department at Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset of war through 1945.

Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom - Szyk, born in Poland, became a United States citizen in 1948 and uses patriotic symbols such as the Liberty Bell, bald eagle, soldier and sailor. Site is from the Library of Congress and presents almost 20 examples of Szyk's work.
Art of the Holocaust (links page from Jacob Richman)

Last Expression: Art from Auschwitz - Explore the making of art by prisoners of war in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, many created in secret, others with knowledge of the Nazi officials. Site from Northwestern University.

Learning about the Holocaust Through Art - Choose explore to search or browse the art collection and read about the artists, learn for teaching materials, or interact to set up your own personal collection of art works.

Moshe Rynecki Virtual Museum - Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943) was forced into the Warsaw Ghetto (Poland) in 1939 and later deported to a concentration camp in Majdanek where he died. This site features some of his surviving paintings of Jewish life in pre-war Poland.

Melton Arts.org Learning About Judaism Through the Arts - site devoted to Jewish arts education. The resources and
tools provided on this website are aimed at furthering the teaching
and study of Jewish and Israeli culture through the various art forms.
Art about Sports [TOP OF PAGE]
Art with Text
With Emphasis on Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger
Artists in Canada
A national directory of Canadian artists, art galleries, associations and art resources. Find contemporary artists of Canada. I explored the Aboriginal (Native American) artists, Folk artists and Aboriginal galleries.

Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art sort by Artist or by medium.

Women Artists in Canada - from Canada's Digital Collection. Unit Plan for Canadian art. (site was down last I checked)

Anne Savage: Artist and Educator - nice online presentation.
Global Gallery Source for art prints - Artists biographies, artist's search, Knowledge Center with movements, bios, and interesting facts and anecdotes
A Century of Drawing
Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt.
A Century of Drawing is the latest exhibit from the National Gallery of Art of Washington DC. The online portion of the exhibit contains more than four dozen drawings.

Visual Thinking Sketchbooks - Archives of American Art
This selection of sketchbooks demonstrates the broad range of material available for research at the Archives of American Art from academic notebooks with anatomical studies to illustrated journals, ranging in date from the 1840s to the 1970s.

Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery This exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery uses portrait drawings dating from the 1880s to the 1980s to show the ways in which the art of portraiture has been changed by trends in 20th century art.
Posters American Style
The Smithsonian Institute Posters American Style, which accompanies a touring exhibition of the same name, brings together some of the great graphic images made in the United States over the past century.

AIDS Posters UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library created this digital archive of 625 posters from 44 countries, including Australia, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and Poland.

Contemporary Art
Links page from Yahoo. Your gateway to any medium in art. Links to hundreds of artists' personal web sites, masters artists and more.

The Artists.org - The major modern & contemporary visual artists - each artist with portrait, brief biography, links to articles, essays and interviews; original art, limited edition art prints, photography and posters, multimedia and artist's books.

Access Art Modern and Contemporary Art. The Art Institute of Chicago's collection of Modern and contemporary art is one of the most comprehensive of any museum and includes two icons of 20th-century American art. site details twelve works in the collection. Gives glossary and lesson plans.

American Art Company - contemporary works of art on paper (etchings, silk-screens, and collage) with paintings, sculpture, art quilts, baskets and contemporary expressions in wood.

artnet: Artist Works Catalogues - features many contemporary artists. Includes photograph, biography and several works for each artist. Some works are for mature students - preview first.

Absolute Arts - Discover the largest fine art marketplace for original and contemporary art online!

PBS Art 21 - excellent site for contemporary art. You may also browse slide shows by artist or by theme/art form.

World Wide Arts Resources Data Base This has pop-under advertising in Internet Explorer (I do not use this site).

Watercolors

Handprint: Watercolors and Watercolor Painting site by Bruce MacEvoy

Watercolor Artists page by Woody Duncan. Watercolors by Woody Duncan

Women's Art
Varo Registry of Women Artists electronic registry of artwork by contemporary international women artists. Named for Remedios Varo. Site created by Robin Masi. See her costume with photography and Witness Project - a 9/11 Tribute.
Women's History Month - Learn more about the contributions of women in the history of our nation - Internet Lesson
National Museum of Women in the Arts - list of women represented and biographies. See what all is available in the collection

Women Artists in History- Showcases the work of women artists down through the centuries.

Woman Made Artist - Collections of works by contemporary woman artists . Click on an image to see the accompanying exhibit. View individual artists galleries. Some work has a mature theme.
World's Women Online demonstrates achievement of women artists internationally -- bridging language barriers through art imagery. Use the Artist index to find contemporary women artists all over the world - or browse by country or medium.
Women Artists of American West excellent online exhibits grouped by theme - from Purdue University.
Women Artists - Artcyclopedia - listed by century
Women Beyond Borders - Over 400 women from around the world transform the wooden box into unique works of art.
Amanda Dunbar -- art prodigy. Amanda Dunbar is speaking
out against school violence. (was teenage artist)
Judy Onofrio Delightful sculpture and wall pieces from found objects. Lesson Plan using her work - from ArtsConnectEd
Georgia O'Keeffe [TOP OF PAGE]

Georgia O'Keeffe - Know the Artist - Resources on the Web

Georgia O'Keeffe images From Carol Gerten's Fine Art Biography (use FireFox browser to block advertising)

Georgia O'Keeffe Biography by Ellen. The young artist, years with Stieglitz and in New Mexico. Shows representative work from different times in her life.

Georgia O'Keeffe images from Happy Shadows bones, landscapes, flowers, abstractions, trees, crosses and churches. This site has become very commercial - images go to print sites.

Printmaking Links Page - History, Techniques, Printmakers
Handmade Paper and Bookmaking - Links Page
Textile Links Page
History, World Textiles and Contemporary- More cultural textiles listed with each culture.

Fiberarts Magazine Fine art and craft made with fiber, including quilting, weaving, surface design, papermaking, needlework, basketry, fiber sculpture, and wearable art.

Fiberarts Online see Table of Contents
Renaissance- Age of Discovery (See Internet Lesson)

Discovery Web -- all kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration

Discovery Web - Columbus This page contains links to pages with information about Columbus

Comprehensive list of Art History links on the Web See Middle Ages and Renaissance

Architecture and Sculpture - North America and Europe

Digital Imaging Project: Art Historical Images Collection done by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College

Architecture Links page

Collage

Collage Museum - International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction - located in Cuernavacva, Mexico.

Sculpture - Assemblage [TOP OF PAGE]

Assemblage Artists - Joseph Cornell and contemporary artists

Abstract Sculpture: Henry Moore, Jean Arp and more!

Alexander Calder - links page

Papier- Mache Learn all about techniques and history of this craft.

Sculptors Online - listed in chronological order by Artcyclopedia

19th-20th Century Sculpture - site is in Italian- but has quality images. Most images from early 1900's.

Modern Sculpture.com click on Sculpture
Figurative Sculpture

Michelangelo Web Museum - bio and images
Renaissance Sculpture (in Italian) Lots of beautiful images
Renaissance Sculpture and Michelangelo's Pietas from Boston College slide collection.
Pieta by Michelangelo High quality image from CGFA
Michelangelo Buonarroti This page is dedicated to those that wish to find out more about Michelangelo Buonarroti and his times
Michelangelo Online - Artcyclopedia
Lesson in Aesthetics: Scanning Michelangelo's David

August Rodin - Web Museum - Biography and images
August Rodin - from Boston College. Photos by Prof. Jeffery Howe
August Rodin Online- Artcyclopedia
Musée Rodin Has biography and images of major works.

Edgar Degas images from Boston College
Edgar Degas Online Artcyclopedia

Camille Claudel (French Sculptor, 1864-1943) see Sculptures of Camille Claudel Photos by Jeffery Howe.

Alberto Giacometti Museum of Modern Art Online Exhibit.

George Segal - Figure Sculpture Internet Lesson
George Segal: American Still Life (PBS site)
Segal Foundation - excellent site

PBS.org- George Segal: American Still Life
Biography - George Segal
Walking Man (bronze from plaster original)
Abraham and Isaac Kent State commission
Still Life by Segal
George Segal - selected works ArtNet Dancers
Holocaust Memorial
George Segal Online - from Artcyclopedia

Figurative Sculpture - Fine Art Dolls

Philippe Faraut PCF Studios. Portraits and figurative sculpture. Excellent instructional book - Portrait Sculpting Anatomy & Expression in Clay by Philippe & Charisse Faraut

Ceramics and Ceramic sculpture links page

Hands On Crafts Fun Interactive site for kids where you can make a virtual coil pot, throw a pot on the wheel and decorate a face jug. Instructions also given for making a coil pot at home. Partnership project between the Mint Museums and the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (PLCMC).
Crafts Links Page

Smithsonian Craft Show - 2002 Ceramics, basketry, jewelry, metal work and so much more.

American Crafts White House Collection of American Crafts -- National Museum of American Art.
Photography Links Page [TOP OF PAGE]
Pop Art Artcyclopedia summary - list of key artists

Cows on Parade- Kansas City. A new form of Pop art is springing up all across the USA - from pigs to cows to ponies....check out some of these creative cows now showing in Kansas.
Stuart Davis - See American Art

Henri Matisse: Know the Artist
Pablo Picasso (See Internet Lesson for more sites)

Picasso: Know the Artist (sample research page)

Matisse & Picasso
This is the online version of a teacher resource guide developed for the Dallas PBS station in support of their video about Picasso and Matisse which in turn accompanied the traveling exhibition. The video is shown on PBS on occasion or available through the KERA website for purchase.

M. C. Escher and Tessellation- Links Lesson
Keith Haring [TOP OF PAGE]

Warning to parents: Some Keith Haring images found on the Web may be objectionable in theme. These links are all safe for students. Students should use caution in exploring other Keith Haring links.

Know the Artist: Keith Haring sample page for student research

Haring Kids Lots of fun activities for kids!

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA Pop Shop

Sculpture- Bluffton College Site

Tribute to Keith Haring - Chronology of Keith Haring's life and work

Artcyclopedia Links for Keith Haring
Wassily Kandinsky - links page [TOP OF PAGE]
Claude Monet
Make this Artcyclopedia link your first stop--then explore to see if you can find more. Portraits of Claude Monet and timeline. Claude Monet Life and Art. See more links to Claude Monet in the Internet Lesson.

Impressionism Paintings collected by European Museums. Site has teacher's packet and transparencies for viewing. From Seattle Art Museum.

Impressionism: Gardens of Sunlight - Reproductions of works of Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Mary Cassatt, Camille Pissarro, and Paul Gauguin. Includes portrait or self portrait of each artist. Site is slow to load - but images are worth the wait.

Access Art: Impressionist Thanks to such pioneering donors as Mrs. Potter Palmer and Frederic Clay Bartlett, The Art Institute of Chicago houses one of the largest and most significant collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in the world. Includes twelve images from the collection with detailed information. Lesson plans and glossary included.
Vincent Van Gogh
Artcylopedia's choices- some of mine are below.

How Van Gogh Made His Mark - interactive exploration of four landscape drawings introducing the creative genius of Van Gogh the draftsman. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Van Gogh Gallery - Comprehensive site of Vincent Van Gogh's work. Site assembled by David Brooks of Toronto, Canada.
Van Gogh's Letter Sketches 133 Sketches are listed
Van Gogh and Gauguin Exhibit -- Enter the experience (used Flash)
Van Gogh and Gaugin - The Studio in the South Learn about both artists and view the slide show. Art Institute of Chicago
Van Gogh - Carol Gerten's Fine Art. Click on small thumbnail images. Link to biography.
Van Gogh Museum Life and times
Vincent Art Gallery. This site has quality reproductions for sale - many images (click Gallery). Artists who inspired him
Vincent Van Gogh - Mark Harden's Artchive has biography and links to quality images.
Van Gogh at Ettens: Sketches and Billboards ThinkQuest site- created by students for students.
Van Gogh's Van Gogh's Virtual Tour National Gallery of Art.
"Van Gogh" (No Stereo) - song by Greg Percy - Songs in the Key of Art: Volume I
Paul Cézanne

Cezanne's Astonishing Apples - interactive from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Johannes Vermeer
The Essential Vermeer: Created by painter Jonathan Janson -- site consists of over 250 pages of information on the Baroque Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, broadly categorized into his art, his life, and related research. See also Girl with a Pearl Earring: In Depth Study.
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch Baroque Era Painter and Engraver, 1606-1669 - Rembrandt House Museum - Artchive - CGFA - Biography - Olga's Gallery
National Gallery Exhibit - Religious Portraits (needs Flash)
Salvador Dali: Know the Artist Links
Marcel Duchamp - Understanding Duchamp Artcyclopedia
Toulouse- Lautrec (Know the Artist page has been removed)
Henri Rousseau - Know the Artist
Pascale Baud- Baud and Bui
Drawings, handmade books, paintings and assemblages by French artist, Pascale Baud.
Digital Arts

Minnesota Arts Collection of Digital Art and Computer Art Collection curated by James Michael Lawrence.
Graphic Design - Product Design - Furniture

Bad Design Kills In the Propaganda section, you will find some posters to download and print off for your graphic design students. These are Adobe Illustrator files - try using Acrobat Reader to open them.

Design Addict - resource for modern, post-modern and contemporary design of the 20th-21st centuries. Find information on designers and producers, on furniture, lighting, dinnerware and accessories. Try the object search feature.

Discover Design Design site - product design. Create a watch online and more fun activities.

Typography Tutorials by John Magnik. Excellent information for your advertising, layout and graphic design units.

Judith Jewer: Muse on Design Judith is a communication specialist. Logo and website design. See her personal Site Spiral from the Muse.

Jill Bell Design and Lettering

Joellyn Rock - Graphic Design artist/professor from Minnesota. Interesting digital work.

Grantastic Designs - Web page design tips

Steven Heller has carved out an impressive career as the foremost authority in the United States on the history of graphic design. Biography with list of books.

Olympic Posters Lesson Plan - ArtsEdge. The changing style of art in the twentieth century is reflected in the posters of the modern Olympic Games.

Design Museum - London. View in html or Flash.

Kim Kelzer Studios - Furniture Design -- original, innovative and imaginative designs push the boundaries of traditional woodworking, yet are extremely functional; employing traditional materials and methods of construction.

Who is the Greatest Artist?
Shakespeare vs. Britney Spears - What is Art?
"What makes something a great work of art? Which artists have produced the world's greatest art? In this interactive investigation, you will be able to see what philosophers have said about these questions, make your contribution and apply your decisions to help rate the work of a diverse selection of ten artists. And to make it more fun, you'll get the chance to pit two artists of your choice against each other in a head-to-head fight to see which artist has created the best works of art.

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