General Art Sites

The Artchive

www.artchive.com

Click on the links to find info on artists, works, and analysis

The National Gallery of Art

www.nga.gov

Check out the exhibitions and online tours

To find out more about artists and their art try The Index of Artists

The National Museum of African Art

www.nmafa.si.edu/pubaccess/index.htm

Explore the collection

Webmuseum, Paris

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/

Offers a great Index of Artists

Find here biographical information, pictures of and links to works

 

Aboriginal Art

Australian Aboriginal Origins and Art

www.oneworldmagazine.org/gallery/abo/intro.html

Find here an article from the One World Magazine

At the bottom of the page click on the gallery link to find more pictures

Aboriginal Art Online

www.aboriginalartonline.com

Click on the dots to the left of the subheadings to learn more about aboriginal art

Aboriginal Fine Arts Gallery

www.aaia.com.au

An Aboriginal owned art gallery

 

Impressionism and Impressionist Links

 

Early 20th Century

Thomas Hart Benton

On the Road with Thomas Hart Benton: Images of a Changing America

www.tfaoi.com/newsm1/n1m613.htm

Use the links from this page to learn more about the man and his works

Georges Braque

Georges Braque

www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_23.html

Learn about Braque's life and see the works exhibited at The Guggenheim

Marc Chagall

Chagall's Windows on Exhibition

www.md.huji.ac.il/chagall/chagall.html

Visit this exhibition of Stained Glass Windows created by Chagall

Salvador Dali

Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali

www.salvador-dali.org

Click on English, then enter this site to learn more about Dali

There are many of his works displayed here as well

This can be slow to load, but it is worth the wait

The Virtual Dali

www.virtualdali.com

View many of Dali's works here as well as a biography

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/giacometti/

Click on the photos on the top of the page to learn more about each piece of art

Click on the links on the bottom of the page for more info about the artist

Must have Flash installed in your computer in order to view this site

Vassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944)

www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Kandin.html

View some art and read about his life

Vasily Kandinsky

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_71.html

More art, more bio from the Guggenheim Museum

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo & Contemporary Thoughts

www.fridakahlo.it

This site is just packed with information and links to information about the Kahlo Craze

Frida Kahlo: Notras Sobre una Vida (Notes on a life)

www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/pastexhibits/kahlo/hispanic2001.htm

Find here an accumulation of documents from the Smithsonian archives

Paul Klee

Paul Klee

www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_75.html

Klee from the Guggenheim

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse - The Fauves

http://www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/fauve/index.htm

Learn about Matisse's painting style and influences

From the National Gallery of Art

Joan Miro/Juan Miro

Fundacio Joan Miro

http://www.bcn.fjmiro.es/

Click on English

This site is a bit hard to navigate, but there is good info to be found here

Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings

www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/mondrian/

Read about Mondrian's career

Learn about a group of unique painting influenced by a transatlantic trip

Stichting Mondriaanhuis

www.mondriaanhuis.nl/EN_index.htm

Visit the place where Mondrian was born

Poor on graphics, rich on biographical information

The Mondrimat

www.stephen.com/mondrimat

OK, so I admit that this doesn't serve any real purpose other than I found it fun

Follow the directions to play with color and design

Henry Moore

The Henry Moore Foundation

www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk

Click on Henry Moore at the top of the page and follow the links to learn more about this artist

Henry Moore

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/mooreintro.htm

Click on the links in the bar beneath the title to learn about Moore

Pablo Picasso

Online Picasso Project

http://csdll.cs.tamu.edu:8080/picasso

Click on the links at the top of the page for more information

Pablo Picasso: Le site officiel

www.picasso.fr

First you must select the English Version of this site

Then you can access news, biographical information, and some information on his works

Pablo Picasso's The Tragedy: Meatmorphosis of a Painting

www.nga.gov/feature/picasso/

This site illustrated how Picasso used the same "canvas" over time on which to paint several of his works

Diego Rivera

The Virtual Diego Rivera Web Museum

www.diegorivera.com

Bio, works, many areas to explore here

The Diego Rivera Mural Project

www.riveramural.org

City College of San Francisco is working to share these mural panels

Grant Wood

Going Back to Iowa: The World of Grant Wood

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA98/haven/wood/home.html

Click on the links at the bottom of the page and in the text to learn more about Wood and his works

Grant Wood Murals

www.lib.iastate.edu/cfora/generic.cfm?cat=arts_murals_wood&navid=3000&parent=2023&disp=classic

Check out the Grant Wood Murals in the library at Iowa State University

 

Later 20th Century

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder Foundation

www.calder.org

Check out this site about Alexander Calder, the artist who developed the mobile

Click on the title to enter this site

Alexander Calder: 1898-1976

www.sfmoma.org/espace/calder

Visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's virtual Calder exhibit

Vertical Constellation With Bomb

www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/calder/index.htm

Take this tour through Calder's art, life, and friendships

From the National Gallery of Art

 

M. C. Escher

M. C. Escher: The Official Website

www.mcescher.com

Find here biographic info, news, links

Make sure to visit the gallery pages!

Escher and the Droste Effect

http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl

Get ready to get dizzy, this site shows the mathematical twisting of one of Escher's pictures

The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher

www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/escher/index.asp

Another site that discusses the mathematical basis for Escher's works

Willem de Kooning

In-Depth: Willem de Kooning

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/indepth_artist.asp?ID=18

Check out a short bio on this page

Look to the list on the left and click on a link under Kooning to learn more about his works

In Rememberance: Willem de Kooning

www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/1997/kooning_3-19.html

This article, recorded on the day of Kooning's death, shares a little about his life and about what distinguished his works

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Founation

www.lichtensteinfoundation.org

This site is within frames, look at the top and left sides of the page for links to more information

Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

http://ellensplace.net/okeeffe1.html

This is a private site, but well done and recommended

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

www.okeeffemuseum.org

Good biographical information

Click on Exhibitions to learn more about O'Keeffe's work

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock: 1912-1956 www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/pollockhome.html

Describes his early work and his later "Action Painting"

Pollack-Krasner House and Study Center http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/pkhouse.nsf

Visit the home of Pollack and his wife (Lee Krasner)

Learn more about their life and art

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/rothkosplash.html

Click on one of the links at the bottom of the page, then click on the arrows to take you through that segment of this online exhibit

George Segal

George and Helen Segal Foundation

www.segalfoundation.org

Check out the information under About George Segal on the left side of the page

Make sure that you try out the various slide shows

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Updated: Tuesday, December 21, 2007

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