Art

Adam’s Multimedia Tutorial
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/multimedia/tutorials/tutorial3.html
Eight lessons to help you learn to create audio and visual video or animated shows on the Web.

African Art from the Guggenheim
http://artnetweb.com/guggenheim/africa/africamap.html
Explore African art by the region. Good images, descriptions and explanations.

Artlex
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html
An art dictionary with 3,600+ terms along with "thousands of images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and links to other resources on the Web." There is a new introduction with search aides. A big help! By Michael Delahunt a high school art teacher. Most links are active.

Art Studio Chalkboard Drawing and Painting
http://studiochalkboard.evansville.edu/
Serious about drawing and painting?  Here is some very neat stuff—explanations and activities—from a professor at The University of Evansville.

Associated Pastlelists On the Web: Pastel Pratfalls
http://www.artshow.com/apow/pratfalls.html
A dozen common mistakes and how to avoid them as you draw with pastels.

Books & Glasses
http://www.williampowell-artist.com/drawingexercise1.html
Six steps to developing a fairly complex still life drawing.

Celebrating Excellence in Ceramics
http://artswork.asu.edu/cec/index.htm
A wonderful unit by Mary Erickson about ceramics. The three lessons cover:

• what makes ceramics good
• how ceramists work with proportions and profiles
• how ceramists finish their work with a focus on patterns.

A teachers guide is included.

Color Pencil Challenge
http://cpchallenge.com/
Lessons from artists in the field that will introduce you to many techniques. Notes that will soon be updated and much more interactive.

Color Pencil Techniques
http://artshow.com/interviews/kutch/index.html
Five steps to creating a poppy. Can be translated to other images.

Digitaltruthphoto
http://www.digitaltruth.com/
Doing your own photo developing? Here’s a good source for product and process information.

Educational Web Adventures
http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/visualartsadv.php
Wonderful, award winning, interactive sites created by Eduweb for a number of arts institutions. All with great humor.

• Street to Studio: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, grades 9-12
• Picturing Women, grades 9-12
• World Myths and Legends, grades 7-12
• The Artist’s Toolkit, grades K-12
• ArtEdventures, grades K-12
• Surrounded by Beauty, grades 9-12

New sites added as they are created.

Eyes on Art
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2/index.html
Serious about learning to appreciate art?  Here is a very well done introductory course from California.  Don’t worry about the Teacher’s Guide; just stop there long enough to click on the art activities: 

• You Choose
• ArtSpeak 101
• Double Visions
• No Fear O’Eras
• Your True View
• Eyes on Art Quiz

Finger Painting
http://www.fingerpainter.com/
A look at Finger Painting by a mature artist. Ideas for using this medium!

Focus on Photography
http://www.azuswebworks.com/photography/index.html
A very good site with sections on:

• Camera Basics
• Composition
• FAQs
• History
• Kinds of. . .
• Lighting
• Reference, etc.

A History of Photography: from its beginnings to 1920
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
Good information about the major photographers and the significant processes used in these beginning years of the art form.

Holocaust Art
http://art.holocaust-education.net/home.asp?langid=1
Drawings and paintings from Holocaust victims. A way to see how art can help the viewer understand.

Learning about Leonardo
http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/davin2.shtml
From Thinkquest. Includes:

• Leonardo Davinci Links
• The Mona Lisa Smile
• Original Davinci Music

Lessons for Students
http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/lessons.htm
Information and activities to learn about art written by master teachers in Arizona

• Explorations in Art: Expressionism/Painting – an introduction to seeing art and creating a painting online
• Navajo Pottery – learn the philosophy of the Navajo potter and learn to make pinch, coil and slab pottery
• Political Cartooning – learn the history of political cartooning, check out current political cartoonists, and make your own cartoons!
• Line Unit – six exercises: Line, Geometric Exercise, Shape and Form, Light and Shadow, Line and Pattern, Tessellations

Making Photographs
http://photo.net/photo/tutorial/index.html
A good tutorial with five sections:

• Light
• Lens
• Film
• Exposure
• Camera

Tour of the Sistine Chapel
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/0-Tour.html
Over 300 images.

Vision and Art
http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/art/
A tutorial to demonstrate how visual information is used in art. Pretty interesting.

Art Museums

The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/index.html
A great collection. Searchable by artist and key word. Some images have curatorial notes. A really good photography gallery.

ASU Art Museum
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu
View images from the collection.

The British Museum
http://www.british-museum.ac.uk/
A broad collection of art and artifacts from all ages and all countries collected to illuminate the history of the cultures. Click on World Cultures to learn about the collection. Click on Compass to find images and some curatorial explanations of 5000 objects/images in the collection. Icons lead to images and curatorial explanations.

The Detroit Institute of Arts
http://www.diamondial.org/
You can search the collection by category as well as artist and title. A good collection including: African, American, Middle Eastern, European, Graphic and Contemporary Art.

The de Young Museum
http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/index.asp
San Francisco’s major museum. Recently rebuilt with a larger collection that covers ancient art through the 20th century; American art, African, Oceanic Art and Art of the Americas.

The Getty
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/
You can search the collection by artist, type and subject, video gallery and new acquisitions. This collection is strongest in antiquities and has the best collection of photographs in the world, searchable by type and artist.

Heard Museum
http://www.heard.org
The mission and philosophy of the Heard today is to “educate the public about the heritage and the living cultures and arts of Native peoples, with an emphasis on the peoples of the Southwest.” There is good information about the museum and a disappointing number of images from the collection.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/
The Smithsonian’s international museum of modern and contemporary art. The Collection Search can be done by artist, title, date, nationality, and school/movement. In-depth under the collection area has lots of good information.

The Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/title.htm
The great French museum.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://metmuseum.org
One of the great museums in the world.  You can see much of the collection.

MOMA – the Museum of Modern Art
http://moma.org
One of the great museums of modern art. The site includes some images from current exhibitions. You can search the collection highlights by: Architecture and Design, Drawings, Film and Media, Painting and Sculpture, Photography, Prints and Illustrated Books, also by date from 1920s to the present.

The National Gallery of Art
http://nga.gov
This Washington, D. C. art gallery has a huge collection; most of it is prior to mid-twentieth century.

National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian
http://www.nmafa.si.edu/voice.html
The Exhibition site includes images and text from the current shows.

Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian
http://www.asia.si.edu/
Our national gallery of Asian Art, but it also has Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Biblical Art and American Art. Also look at the Education pages.

Phoenix Art Museum
http://www.phxart.org
Has an interesting collection and a neat collection of fashion design and miniature rooms.

SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org/collections/collections_overview.html
Explore everything they’ve got. There are many spiffy interactive features!

Smithsonian American Art Museum (The Renwick)
http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm
Search the collection about America by American artists by artist, artwork type or subject.

The State Hermitage Museum
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html
Russia’s great museum. Check out: Collection Highlights, Exhibitions, Children & Education/Virtual Academy and the Digital Collection for a wide variety of art works from the stone age to the present.

The University of Arizona Museum of Art
http://artmuseum.arizona.edu
view the collections and exhibitions, find information about the museum