VISUAL ARTS
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are interested in or just scroll downwards to browse.
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- GENERAL ART RESOURCES
- ART HISTORY
- PHOTOGRAPHY
GENERAL ART RESOURCES
- Arts news, covering items such as new exhibits, events and
competitions, plus information on famous artists and their work as it
pertains to today's art market and galleries. Offers RSS feeds.
- This site offers information on art pottery, online discussion, pottery
links, auction coverage, and avoiding frauds and fakes.
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- Searchable online guide to museum-quality art on the Internet which also
features top online museums and exhibits, art news and related links.
- ArtLex
- This online dictionary of visual art terms does more than just define
terms. It also offers illustrations, pronunciation, quotations and
links to related resources.
- ArtsJournal
- Daily arts news including dance, music, publishing, theater and visual
arts.
- CGFA - Carol Gerten's Fine Art
- Online art museum, searchable by artist.
- Drawing and Sketching @ About.com
- Links, articles and and discussion areas, covering anime, manga,
education, galleries, history, organizations, supplies, terminology,
artists, and careers.
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- This site offers art features and interviews, plus new works. It
also has resources under several headings, including arts education, arts
management, dance, design, film, television, radio, new media, folk and
traditional arts, literature, multidisciplinary arts, museums and visual
arts, music, opera, presenting, theater and musical theater. There is
also information on finding funding for arts.
- National Museum of African Art
- This museum in the Smithsonian Institution offers several online
collections.
- Painting @ About.com
- Links, articles and and discussion areas, covering acrylic, air brush,
anatomy, color theory, tempera, magazines, murals, museums, oil, painters,
supplies, prints, and watercolors.
- Wisconsin Pottery Association
- This site focuses on locally produced pottery and its history.
ART HISTORY
- Art
History @ About.com
- Online resource guide covering appraisers, theft, the art market,
conservation, jobs, museums, and a variety of countries and periods.
- A non-profit art gallery with paintings from art movements of the 19th and
early 20th centuries with an emphasis on artists who are more obscure and
paintings with a mythological or literary subject matter.
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- Incredible site on the cave paintings.
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- Gorgeous renderings of three centuries of Italian Art from the 16th
through the 18th centuries.
- Milestones of Modernism
- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents this site filled with information on the
various movements within modernism, including arts and crafts, art nouveau,
Werkstatte, De Stijl, and art deco.
PHOTOGRAPHY
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- This museum offers great photography online as well as exhibits on the
history of photography.
- Panoramic Photographs
Collection
- Collection of panoramic photos from 1851-1991 from the Library of Congress.
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- Very rich photographic site that covers many subjects. It also
offers articles on how to improve your own photographs or shoot unusual
subjects like fireworks.
Updated April 24, 2006.
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