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Abstract Expressionism - "Abstract Expressionism is a form of art in which the artist expresses himself purely through the use of form and color. It is form of non-representational, or non-objective, art, which means that there are no concrete objects represented." Adaweb Art Deadlines List, The AIA Online: The American Institute of Architects - Professional organization for architects providing resources for both practitioners and consumers. AICT - Art Images for College Teaching - images that may be downloaded and copied provided the images will be used for educational or personal purposes. AICT consists of five broad chronological sections necessary for teaching art history: Ancient, Medieval Era, Renaissance & Baroque, 18th - 20th Century, and Non-Western cultures. Allen Memorial Art Museum - Oberlin College American Ballet Theatre American Century, The - site covers 10 decades of American art, culture, history, and innovation in dazzling multimedia. Join an educational talking tour or select artwork for a tour of your own. American Museum of Natural History Ansel Adams Home Page Arta Gallery - offering a series of art pieces capturing the creative genius of Marc Chagall's paintings. ArchNet Art-Bridge.com - Art Directory, Art Portal, Art Links ArtDaily - Valuable resource for current information on the art world. Features a series of timely stories covering a variety of art-related news and events internationally. Art Deco-Erte Museum Art Institute of Chicago Art Now Gallery Guide - listing of up-to-date exhibitions in Museums and Galleries by region, etc. Art on the Net Art on the Web - Extensive directory of art sites organized by historical time periods. Covers art therapy, conservation, iconography, professional associations, and women artists. Artists League of Brooklyn, Inc. - Non-profit organization established in 1969 and serving the Brooklyn, NY community in the field of the visual fine arts. ArtLex - Art dictionary with over 1,700 terms relating to all aspects of the visual arts, intended to be used by anyone interested or involved in the arts. Links art vocabulary to other Web sites. Provides images of works of art and quotations. ArtMuseum.net - An Internet-based art museum featuring a navigable 3D representation of the current exhibit, archives of letters and other works by artists, photographs, and biographical information about the artist. Arts Exploration - a laboratory ... that will serve arts and cultural organizations as they prepare for the networked environment of the next century. Arts Journal: The Daily Digest of Arts & Cultural Journalism - Edited by Douglas McLennan, formerly an arts columnist and arts reporter with theSeattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Weekly, Arts Journal is a daily digest of some of the best online arts and cultural journalism. Artists Index - Courtesy of WebMuseum, Paris Art of China Artlink ArtNetWeb ArtsUsa ArtSource ArtStar.com - "the premier destination for anything and everything art." Art Tunnel, The - Urban Desires Asian Arts AskART - Site maintains a database on 25,000 American artists spanning the 16th to the 21st centuries. Information on the artists includes 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. Australian Art Gallery - Contemporary Australian, and International Artists Bayly Art Museum - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia blue dot, The Brooklyn Film Institute, Inc. - Non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the art of film to the public, especially the people of Brooklyn and New York City Butler Institute of American Art, The California Museum of Photography at the University of California Canadian Museum of Civilization Carlos Museum - Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Center for the Arts - Wesleyan University Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou Cezanne Chagall Windows, The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry Dale Chihuly Home Page Children's Museum of Indianapolis - "World's largest children's museum dating back to 1925" Christus Res - "Top 100 Web Sites - PC Magazine" Chrysler Museum - One of the nation's top 20 art museums Communication Arts Cleveland Museum of Art CultureFinder Cummer Museum of Arts & Gardens - "The most beautiful place in Jacksonville, Fla." Davis Museum and Cultural Center Detroit Institute of Arts Digital Archive of Art - collection of images of paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries and sculpture from the ancient Greek period, the Renaissance, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Artists represented include Michelangelo, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Gauguin, Seraut, Van Gogh, Rodin, Daumier, Munch, Arp, Duchamp, Ernst, and many others. Dia Center for the Arts George Eastman House -- Museum of Photography and Film Education at the Met - A little culture for everyone, from New York's Metropolitan Opera House education program. Offers programs to help further music and arts education in schools and communities. Electric Gallery, The Electric Origami Shop, The Encyclopedia Smithsonian - This index features answers to frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian and links to sites about the Institution's many resources arranged in an A to Z list. An excellent way to see what's available by topic on the huge Smithsonian Museums site. From aeronautics to crafts and flags to violins, this national treasure chest provides an enormous amount of online information from its collections. Escher, M.C, The World of Exploratorium Expo - WWW exhibit organization FineArt Forum Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - "With 60,000 works on paper our Imagebase is currently the largest searchable art imagebase in the world." Fine Arts World Resource Page - Directory of links to art, architecture, design, and dance resources. First Divison Museum at Cantigny Franklin Institute Science Museum - Electronically tour the museum's exhibits and access resources. Freer Gallery of Art Gauguin, Paul The Getty Museum - Site offers nearly 54,000 pages related to works of art and professional reports in conservation and art history. The heart of the site is the Explore Art section, which includes 3,300 works of art, 1,500 artist biographies, 1,500 glossary definitions, over 200 video clips, online exhibitions, and more. Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Home Page Glasgow School of Art, The Glass Art Home Page, The GLYPHS Greek Mythology Link - guide to Greek myths, containing sections on major events in Greek mythology; individual entries for divine, mortal, and semi-divine characters; genealogical tables; maps; a bibliography of ancient and modern sources; and an extensive set of links to sites of Classical interest. Guggenheim Museum of Art, The Harvard University Art Museums Hunterian Museum Huntsville Museum of Art increase and diffusion - celebrates the richness and complexity of contemporary life with an appealing blend of scholarship and journalism Illinois State Museum Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology - Memphis, Tennessee Internet for the Fine Arts - A comprehensive network of artists, galleries, museums, organizations, and resources relating to the fine arts. Internet Resources for the Arts: General Resources - Thorough index of Internet listings for primary resources on art. Covers general sites on art and architecture, publications and discussion groups, organizations, and libraries and schools. Many of the topics link to other search engines on art. Isaacs/Innuit Gallery Juilliard School - official site of the school of the performing arts. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Univ. of Michigan Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design - includes images from their Georgia O'Keefe exhibit. John F. Kennedy for the Performing Arts, The Kitchen, The - "The Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film and Literature Knoxville Museum of Art Krannert Art Museum Kyoto National Museum - Masterworks - "Detailed graphic and text introductions to over one hundred of the finest masterpieces in the Kyoto National Museum Collection." The Language and Literacy Project Laserium Home Page La Trobe University Art Museum Learning about Leonardo - project explores the mystery behind the Mona Lisa smile by comparing the theory of Dr. Lillian Schwartz and Rina de Firenze, author of Mystery of the Mona Lisa through scientific inquiry. Leonardo da Vinci Museum Leonardo Plaza Library of Congress Electronic Exhibits Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts - mostly (Mozart) information about Festival '96, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, and getting tickets to it all. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louvre Museum Luxembourg National Museum of Art and History Mariner's Museum Medieval Art and Architecture - collection of architectural images from the Middle Ages. Included for many of the buildings is a map of its location, a floor plan, photos, and a brief description. Metropolitan Museum of Art MIT Museum Montclair Art Museum, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Montshire Museum of Science MoOM - Museum of Online Museums Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Museum of the City of New York Museum of Modern Art Museums of Paris Museum Sites Online Mystery of the Maya National Air and Space Museum National Directory of Teacher Programs and Resources in Art Museums - NGA - this directory is aimed at K-12 educators, school administrators, and museum professionals. These users are encouraged to use the site to learn about "the rich multidisciplinary resources available, often free of charge, at art museums across the United States and in Puerto Rico." National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities National Gallery of Art - search for information on the more than 100,000 works in the collection. National Gallery of Canada National Graphic Design Archive - Lawrence Mirsky / The Cooper Union Image database of the NGDA covering the history of graphic design in the U.S. Offers general or specific searches on graphic design, photographs, and artworks in related media National Museum of American Art, The National Museum of Natural History National Numismatic Collection - from the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery NetNoir - "Cybergateway to Afrocentric Culture" New Media Encyclopedia - View selections from the work of avant-garde artists and filmmakers like Jean-Luc Goddard and Nam June Paik. Resources include chronological landmarks, scholarly bibliographies, and glossaries in English, French, and German. New York Botanical Garden Newseum - a D.C.-area museum that "will take visitors behind the scenes to see and experience how and why news is made." Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum - displays a comprehensive collection of artwork by this sculptor (1904-1988) in a tranquil setting created by the artist. On-Line Picasso Project Paintings of Vermeer Philadelphia Museum of Art Picasso - the official site Picasso Sites on the WWW Portland Art Museum Remembering Nagasaki Renaissance Exhibit - from the Annenberg/CPB Collection. "Renaissance," French for "rebirth," aptly describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the Fourteenth through the Sixteenth centuries. Royal Ontario Museum Russian Culture SILS Art Images Browser - Large database of images from the collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and Slide and Photograph Collection and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. An experimental project, the site is an example of how an electronic database can classify and retrieve art images. San Diego Aerospace Museum San Diego Museum Of Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum - includes both national and international holdings, with special emphasis on the rich heritage of the live performing arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Science Museum of Minnesota Sculptor.Org - comprehensive resource for sculptors in all media. There are links for tools and supplies, sculpting tips, schools, biographies, sculpture in museums and public places, associations, services, events, bibliographies, and more. Smithsonian Institution Home Page Smithsonian Institution's HistoryWired - Welcome to the Smithsonian Institution's HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things. This experimental site introduces visitors to some of the three million objects held by the National Museum of American History, Behring Center. Spencer Museum of Art Printroom Splendors of Ancient Egypt - pieces from Wilhelm Pelizaeus' Egyptian antiquities collection, presented by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Includes a RealAudio tour. Tate Gallery - This museum contains the national collection of British art from the 16th century to the present, as well as the national collection of international modern art. Approximately 8000 images of the museum's holdings are available for view along with the descriptive text found by the works when they are displayed in the physical gallery. Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History - Currently this Metropolitan Museum of Art site presents world art from the Metropolitan Museum dating 20,000 BC to 1400 AD. This Timeline of Art History can be navigated from a timeline, maps, or a thematic index. The timeline will eventually reach to the present day. Tokugawa Art Museum ToleNet.com UC Museum of Paleontology Urban Desires - All Culture Site University Art Museum/Pacific File Archive Versailles - Official Site - a virtual tour of the magnificent chateau commissioned by the Sun King himself, Louis XIV. Stroll the gardens, saunter through dining hall, or amble along the veranda Victoria and Albert Museum - home to 145 galleries containing some of the world's greatest collections of fine arts. Victorian Web, The Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery Van Gogh Museum - The Van Gogh Museum is located on the Museumplein in Amsterdam, between the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum. The Virtual Museum of Computing Visual Arts Sampler Vatican Museum University of Michigan Museum of Art WWW Virtual Library: Museum lists Andy Warhol Museum Washington Area Conceptual Museum of Art Production - an arts resource for DC, MD & VA. Web of Arts - site consists of links to arts related sites for art lovers, artists and students. Web Gallery of Art - This Website "contains over 8,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1750" supplemented with commentary on their technique and history. Web Museum - THE place on the web for all art buffs. Includes tours of renown museums around the world plus updates on the latest exhibits. Exploration of art from the Middle Ages to the 20th century with a concentration on the paintings from the Western tradition and a few samples of Japanese work. Provides overviews of the life and work of numerous artists; an outline of major Western art styles, with discussion of the characteristics and artists involved in each; and a glossary of art movements. Weisman, Frederick R. Art Museum Whitney Museum of American Art Pace Wildenstein Gallery, The World Art Treasures - Exploration of the art and architecture of several different civilizations, including Egypt, China, Japan, India, and Europe. Includes seven distinct programs covering specific artists or civilizations, with numerous images and in-depth discussions of historical background and stylistic tendencies. ZooNet Image Archives

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