ARTH101: Art Appreciation and Techniques

Art Resources

• ART 21 : Includes interviews with major contemporary artists, studio visits and explanations of their work
  
• Google Images : A comprehensive search engine for images
  
• Artcyclopedia : Good general art site, mostly image links to museums:
  
• Mark Hardin's Artchive : Great link with alphabetical listing of artists, mostly contemporary and historical European
  
• Art History Links : An amazing collection of links specific to sites related to the practice of art history, many are written, not visual, information
  
• Cities and Buildings Collection : Over 5000 architectural images maintained by the architecture department at the University of Washington
  
• Web Gallery of Art : Good reference for lots of art history images
  
• Saatchi Gallery, London : Cutting edge contemporary art, plus a site where any artist can post their work
  
• The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC : Our national art museum
  
• Seattle Art Museum
  
• Museum of Modern Art New York : A treasure trove of modern art
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art : Extensive collection database from many cultures and time periods
  
• Islamic art collection : An extensive collection of Islamic art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston : An extensive digital collection with text information
  
• Currier Museum of Art : A smaller museum in Manchester, NH with a fantastic collection, much of it online
  
• Henry Art Gallery : The art repository of the University of Washington. An extensive image database and excellent search system
  
• National Galleries of Scotland : Extensive collection of artwork from many cultures and
  
• time periods
  
• ARTstor : Nearly one million images here. For access to this site, please check with your campus library or public library
  
• CAMIO : 95,000 images of all kinds. For access to this site, please check with your campus or public library
  
• Smarthistory : Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. We use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art
  
• Tibetan Book of the Dead : Literature and Artwork on Prayer, Ritual, and Meditation from the Religious Traditions of Tibet, India and Nepal. Special Collections Department at the University of Virginia Library
  
• Day of the Dead Celebration : History and images from the Mexican “Dia de los Muertos” celebration.
  
• Frank Gehry sketches : Initial sketches of building design ideas by architect Frank Gehry
  
• African Art: Death and Rebirth : Sculpture images and text describing ritual beliefs from African cultures. Other themes included
  
• Burke Museum : Artwork database from their ethnology collections. Administered through the University of Washington
  
• All Together Now : A digital collaborative and interactive music project
  
• AIDS Quilt Information Website
  
• What is a Print? : Interactive tutorial on printmaking processes, with images. Created by the Museum of Modern Art, New York
  
• Edvard Munch Museum : Image database for many of Munch’s paintings and prints
  
• Nuxalk Sun Mask : Image and context for the Mask of the Sun from British Columbia Nuxalkculture
  
• Bradshaw Foundation : Excellent source for images and information on prehistoric rock art, Cycladic figures, the Pyramids, ancient temples and geometric signs
  
• The Art Story : Movements, Artists, Theory and the Progression of Art History
  
• Francis Bacon Estate : A website devoted to the images and explanations of the important and idiosyncratic English painter
  
• Mayan Temples : An excellent site for historical information about the Temples of Palenque in Mexico