THE ART PAGE

Visit these sites to locate information about the art world.

General Art Links	Art Games	Art Teacher Resources
Black American Artists	Sculptors	Virtual Field Trip

 

General Art Links

Start Your Research Here!

The Artchive   http://artchive.com

Artcyclopedia  http://artcyclopedia.com

     Subscription Research Databases - Available only through Gananda Central Library

     The Cave of Lascaux   [Online available]  http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/   A Webby Award 2000 winner(the Oscars of the Web), this site from the Ministry of Culture in France lets you take a virtual tour of the Palaeolithic wall paintings of Lascaux. Students of all ages can explore the caves, learn more about the images in the paintings, and discover
the materials used by the artists 15,000 years ago.

     Exploring Leonardo  [Online available]   http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo   Explore this site and learn about this fascinating scientist, inventor, and artist.

     Gateway to Art History  [Online available]  http://www.harbrace.com/art/gardner/   This is a great find for art history or western civilization teachers! Designed as an online supplement to the text book Gardner's Art Through the Ages, this hotlist's links lead to all the major periods of art studied in most western art history courses. (review by Blue Web'n from Pacific Bell.  See the Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer at http://www.kn.pacbell.com/ for more online resources, tools, and learning activities.)

     Louvre Museum  [Online available]
http://mistral.culture.fr/louvre/louvrea.htm   The official English Language website of  the Louvre Museum in Paris.

     The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston  [Online available] http://mfah.org/   A "virtual" tour of   The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

     Webmuseum, Paris  [Online available]  http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/   A wonderfully useful site that provides links to art work in museums all over the world.

 

Art Games

     A. Pintura, Art Detective  [Online available]
http://www.eduweb.com/pintura   Play this game and learn how to identify paintings by analysing techniques, styles etc.

     Inside Art  [Online available]
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html    Inside Art is an online game which explores a painting from the inside out. During an art museum tour, you're sucked into a vortex and find yourself inside a mystery painting. Your only hope of escape is to answer the questions.

 

Art Teacher Resources

     Teacher Sites - Art  [Online available]  http://www.gananda.k12.ny.us/library/mshslibrary/subsites.htm#1   This page provides links to art lesson plans and other useful sites for art teachers.

 

 

Sculptors

     Sculptors - ArtEncylopedia.com
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/media/Sculptor.html
Select from a long list of sculptors.

     Sculptors - ArtEncylopedia.com
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/alphabetic.html
Search for a sculptors and other artists by name.

 

 

 

Virtual Field Trip

Start by visiting this website:
http://www.museumca.org/usa/states.html

For a listing of art museums visit
http://www.museumca.org/usa/states.html

 

 

 

 

 

	This page created 07/05/98 - updated on 12/05/01