Blach Library: "Search Starter" Links for our Art Classes


Art Museums and Online Art Exhibitions

By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
"Consists of 907 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of the New Deal. These striking silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut posters were designed to publicize health and safety programs; cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances; travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities.

Web Museum Famous Paintings
A listing of links to famous artists and paintings from throughout history. Just a click or two is all that is needed in order to view a famous painter or a famous painting.

Art Image Database
A collection of links to Web Pages with art images. Think of it as a launching pad into the world of online art.

Images of the Southwest
Images of the Southwest, from the University of Arizona, plus access to links to many other art resources on the Web.

Online School Museums and Projects
Many students at K-12 schools create online exhibitions, known as "museums". This site, created by the noted online educator Jamie McKenzie (FromNowOn), offers how-to-do-it information, as well as links to student creations.

Diego Rivera Web Museum
Pintor muralista, fue uno de los grandes artistas del Siglo XX. Nació en la ciudad de Guanajuato y en 1892 se trasladó a México con su familia. Estudió en la academia de San Carlos y en el taller del grabador José Guadalupe Posada, cuya influencia fue decisiva. Más adelante recibió en París la influencia del post-impresionismo y del cubismo, en cuyo lenguaje se expresó con soltura.

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
"African artifacts have generally been exhibited with reference only to cultural context and use. In view of recent studies of African aesthetic principles and related moral and religious values, there is good reason to emphasize the formal aesthetic aspects of the objects and the moral and religious ideas they express."

Museum of San Francisco
A museum of historical information, about the events San Francisco, and of course, California as well!

ArtsEdge
ArtsEdge, a cooperative agreement between the JFK Center for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, with support from the U.S. Department of Education, has built a set of resources, filled with professional development information, program information, Arts and Education research and more...

The Collection
A fine art gallery on the Internet, with art for sale.

The Electric Gallery
Many of the painters exhibiting here hang in prestigious galleries and museums. Some of these paintings are in private collections. Most of them are available for purchase.

Virtual Photo Gallery
Collection of links to online photo galleries and exhibits. This is an excellent collection, with several famous photographers listed. Sponsored by LIFE magazine.

Wassily Kandinsky
A famous Russian artist who bridged the 19th and 20th Centuries. Now considered to be the founder of abstract art, his work was exhibited throughout Europe from 1903 onwards, and often caused controversy among the public, the art critics, and his contemporaries. An active participant in several of the most influential and controversial art movements of the 20th century, among them the Blue Rider which he founded along with Franz Marc and the Bauhaus which also attracted Klee, Geiniger, and Schonberg.

Sonoran Mission Churches
We can access the distinctive images of the Southwest at this University of Arizona exhibition.
 

Other Related Arts and Exhibitions
Grotte Palolithique
Images and comments from a Paleolithic Era cave in France with drawings on the walls.

Old Postcard Exhibition
A man in Sweden displays some of his historic postcards!

The Museum of Papermaking
The American Museum of Papermaking is an internationally renowned resource on the history of paper and paper technology.

Photography Net Resources
Photography resources on the Net compiled by Steve Dietz. Recent links are listed first and then alphabetically.