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Fine Art Resource Guide

Internet Resources for Fine Art

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Aboriginal Art
Art History
Art Teaching
Artists
Australian
Ceramics
Electronic Journals 
Fibre Art
Galleries, Museums and Exhibitions
General Resources
Image Collections
Photography
Printmaking
Sculpture

 

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Aboriginal Art, Culture & Spirituality via Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library

aboriginalart.org links to Aboriginal owned and operated Art Centres' websites in northern and central Australia

Australian Indigenous Art via Australian Government's Culture and Recreation Portal

Awaba guide to the history, culture and language of the Indigenous peoples of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of NSW

Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute

Virtual Sourcebook for Aboriginal Studies in the Hunter Region

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Art History

Art via The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies sponsored by Georgetown University

Art History  via Best of History Web Sites

Art History Resources on the Web Sweet Briar College, Virginia

Art History via Yahoo

Art History Research Centre

The Arts in Victorian Britain via The Victorian Web

Biblioteca Ambrosiana Online Inventory Catalogue of the Ambrosiana Drawings University of Notre Dame

History of Art via World Wide Web Virtual Library

Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology University of Memphis

International Dada Archive University of Iowa Libraries

Perseus Digital Library an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the Humanities, Tufts University

SPIRO online catalogue and image database of the Architecture Visual Resources Library at the University of California, Berkley

Timeline of Art History Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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Art Teaching

Art Attack Neil Buchanan

Art History Lesson Plans and Activities via Best of History Web Sites

Art Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers (UK)

edna Online (Education Network Australia)

Educators Reference Desk includes lesson plans (USA)

Incredible @rt Department

Kinder Art a collection of resources featuring over 1000 free lesson plans.

NSW Board of Studies

NSW Department of Education

NSW Department of Education and Training

Teaching Resources: Online Programs National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

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Artists

The-artists.org major modern and contemporary visual artists

Artists via Yahoo

AskART extensive information about 52,000 American artists

Axis a directory of current practicing artists in the UK

Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South Art Institute of Chicago

Women Artists in Canada via Collections Canada, Library and Archives Canada

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Australian

ABC Arts Online

Arts and Culture via Australian Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

artsConnect is an online art portal profiling Australian artists of all media

Arts Domain via Vicnet Directory, State Library of Victoria

Arts Libraries Society - Australia and New Zealand With useful links to Art and Design Schools, Databases and Directories, and Art Galleries and Museums

Australian Cartoonists' Association

Australian Copyright Council

Australian Council for the Arts

Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools

Australian Network for Art and Technology brokers the synthesis between art and culture, science and technology.

Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (APT) a collection of topic terms for indexing Australian images

Australian Women's Art Register

Craft Australia

Craft Victoria

Dictionary Of Australian Artists Online DAAO provides biographical data, contextual information, commentary and images on Australian Artists

FAF FineArt Forum - art + technology net news

In the Artist's Footsteps a site for art lovers and students throughout the world to gain an appreciation of the lives and works of Australian Artists and the social environments in which they lived and painted.

NAVA National Association for the Visual Arts Ltd

PictureAustralia provides access to images that cover all aspects of Australiana

Pictures Catalogue National Library of Australia Pictorial Collection

Viscopy Visual Arts Copyright Collecting Agency

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Ceramics

Agora an Australian publication discussing 20th Century ceramics

Ceramics via Yahoo

Ceramics Links via Incredible @rt Department

Ceramics Monthly

Ceramics Today

Ceramics Web an experimental web site for ceramics

Critical Ceramics

Fraunhofer Institute Ceramic Technologies and Sintered Materials IKTS

New York State College of Ceramics Alfred University

Virtual Ceramics Exhibit

Electronic Journals

Arts & Crafts

Decorative Arts

Drawing, Design & Illustration

Fine Arts

Museum Publications

Painting

Photography

Visual Arts

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Fibre Art

American Craft Council supporting artists working in the media of clay, fibre, glass, metal, wood and other materials.

American Textile History Museum

Black Sheep Handweavers Guild promotes the exchange of ideas and knowledge in the textile arts, San Francisco

Textile Museum Washington D.C.

Textiles School of Art, ANUtop

 

Galleries, Museums and Exhibitions

Australian Sites

Art Gallery of NSW

Art Gallery of South Australia

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

CAN Collections Australia Network formerly AMOL

Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery

Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney

National Gallery of Australia Canberra

National Gallery of Victoria

National Museum of Australia Canberra

National Portrait Gallery Canberra

Newcastle Region Art Gallery

Online Exhibitions via Australian Libraries Gateway links to Australian Institutions that hold online exhibitions

Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Watt Space Univeristy of Newcastle Student Art Gallery

International Sites

Art Galleries via Virtual Library

Art Institute of Chicago

British Museum

CAI Art Gallery the Philippines First Online Art Gallery

Courtauld Institute of Art London

Dia Art Foundation New York

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Finnish National Gallery

Getty Museum Los Angeles

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Louvre Museum Paris

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

Museo del Prado Madrid

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Museum of London Group

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York

National Gallery London

National Gallery of Art Washington D.C.

National Gallery of Canada

National Museum of Contemporary Art  Korea

National Portrait Gallery London

National Portrait Gallery Washington D.C.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Smithsonian Washington D.C.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Tate Online United Kingdom

Vatican Museums Rome

Victoria and Albert Museum London

Virtual Library Museums Pages a directory of on-line museums

Whitney Museum of American Art  New York

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General Resources

Art via BBC Arts

The Arts via BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources

Arts via Yahoo

ArtSource a gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture

Selected Internet Sources in Art and Art History via UCLA

Visual Arts via Intute: Arts and Humanities (UK)

Voice of the Shuttle with links to art and art history, University of California, Santa Barbara

World Wide Arts Resources contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist and gallery portfolios

Worldwide links to the Arts via University of Wisconsin Maddison

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Image Collections

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)  

ArtServe via ANU art and architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan, India and Cambodia

American Memory primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States, Library of Congress

Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (APT) a collection of topic terms for indexing Australian images

Australian Prints images & information about Prints and Printmaking, Posters, and Book Arts including Artists Books & Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Australia

British Library Images Online

Canada's Digital Collections via Library and Archives Canada

COLLAGE City of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery an image database containing over 20,000 works
of art from its collections.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco image and text database of objects from the collections of the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor.

Museum of Fine Arts Collections Database Boston

New York Public Library Digital Library

PhotoGraphicLibraries agencies, services, images, archives, clip art and exhibitions/galleries.

PictureAustralia provides access to images that cover all aspects of Australiana

Pictures Catalogue National Library of Australia Pictorial Collection

SILS Art Image Browser University of Michigan, a database of art, architectural and museum object images.

Web Gallery of Art searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850)

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Photography

American Museum of Photography

Australian Centre for Photography

California Museum of Photography University of California, Riverside,

Centre for Contemporary Photography Fitzroy, Victoria

Daguerreian Society dedicated to the early history, science and art of photography including the daguerreotype

History of Photography from its Beginnings till the 1920's

National Media Museum United Kingdom

Photography Collection Victoria Albert Museum London

Photography Collection New York Public Library

Photography via Art History Resources on the Web

Photography via Yahoo

Photomedia Center to promote the creation and exhibition of fine art photography, digital/electronic based arts and new media and its appreciation

PhotoMedia Magazine

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Printmaking

Australian Prints images & information about Prints and Printmaking, Posters, and Book Arts including Artists Books & Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Australia

History of Printmaking via the-arists.org

Print Australia an online community for printmakers, book artists and papermakers

Print Council of Australia

Printmaking via Google

Printmaking via Yahoo

Prints via Art History Resources on the Web

William Hogarth and 18th Century Print Culture via McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University

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Sculpture

Contemporary Sculptors Association a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting,developing and extending contemporary sculpture in the Australian community.

DeCordova Sculpture Park a permanent, rotating exhibition of contemporary American outdoor sculpture, DeCordova Museum, New England

Digital Imaging Project historical images of scultpure and architecture from pre-historic to port-modern via Bluffton University, Ohio

European Sculpture of the 14th - 19th Centuries National Gallery of Art, U.S.A.

International Sculpture Center advances the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society.

Sculptors.Org resources related to sculptors and sculpture on and off the internet

The Sculptors Society

Sculpture via Yahoo

1200 Years of Italian Sculpture

 


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