Fine arts

  • American Museum of Photography - this virtual museum features online exhibits on topics of interest to students of American history as well as photography. Topics include slavery, tall tales, surrealism, daguerreotypes, portraits, and more.
  • Amico: Art Museum Image Consortium , enabling educational use of museum multimedia.
  • A. Pintura, Art Detective - This site has games to help students in grades four and up explore art history. "The Case of Grandpa's Painting" adventure takes children through a narrated search to discover the artist of the unknown painting. The site includes another game, "Inside Art", in which players are "trapped" in a painting and must answer questions about it in order to escape. Teachers can also print out worksheets from the site's resources section.
  • Artcyclopedia - Guide to museum-quality art. Focuses on painting and sculpture but also includes photography, decorative arts, installation art, folk and native art, architecture, and video/digital/web-based art. Contains information on the artist and works plus links and a section on art movements.
  • The artist's toolkit: visual elements & principles - explore the tools that artists use (i.e., line, color, shape and balance) to build works of art. Teachers can customize the exhibit for their students by selecting a menu of options. From the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts.
  • Artlex Dictionary of Visual Art - An art dictionary for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education.
  • Art on the Web     
  • The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - This branch of the Metropolitan is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. The site highlights the collection.     
  • Exploring themes in American art - from the National Gallery of Art, the teaching resource page provides students an opportunity to explore ten themes in American art through text and images.
  • Fine Arts World Resources Page - This site has material on art history, architecture, community and regional planning, dance, costume, artistic photography, and design. It also has links to other Web sites of interest.
  • The J. Paul Getty Museum - This museum collects and exhibits Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts.    
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art - This web site for older children helps them understand artist's techniques by looking closely at how the work was created. Students can explore art and artifacts from the Met's extensive collection and learn ways in which objects relate to each other to understand what makes a great work of art great.
  • National Gallery of Art - The National Gallery of Art 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. Search the collection by specific artist, title, time period, or a combination of criteria.
  • New York Museum of Modern Art - Art Safari at MOMA allows kids to looks at some artists' great work and follow prompts to write stories, design their own art work, and see what other children have created online. There are also digitized works of major artists from MOMA's collections, some with RealAudio or text-based explanations.
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum - home of the largest collection of American art in the world - over 37,500 works.
  • Timeline of art history - Created by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this site explores art history from prehistoric times to 1800 A.D. with plans to expand coverage to the present day by the Fall of 2004.
  • Vincent van Gogh Gallery- Devoted to the unique works of the nineteenth century Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, this virtual gallery received a seal of approval from the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It contains 100% of van Gogh’s works and letters with over 4,000 images. Search van Gogh’s works chronologically, by medium, or by subject.
  • Virtual Library museum pages - this directory of on-line museums provided links to digital collections around the world.
  • WebMuseum - Nicholas Pioch, a computer scientist in Paris, created this Web site for art lovers everywhere. At WebMuseum you can enjoy ten million images and documents from galleries and museums, searchable by artist or theme. Listings for artists are accompanied by short biographies and a list of paintings, while theme listings include a brief introduction to the period and a list of paintings. Unusual or important terms in all entries link to a glossary.
  • World myths & legends in art - explores the relationship of myths and art. Users may choose to explore art through culture or by theme as well as by comparing and contrasting.

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