Studio+Arts+year+12

= YEAR 12 STUDIO ARTS = Welcome Year 12 Studio Arts students to this exploration of the Arts pathfinder that will help you discover sources of inspiration within the library and online to direct you in your Exploration Proposal. Remember to consult a variety of information sources (books, online, encyclopedias) during this early stage of your Exploration Proposal because the more widely read you are the easier it should be to **select** and **discuss** the sources of inspiration for your ideas and concepts within the design process.
 * [[image:mona_lisa.jpg width="163" height="250" align="left" caption="Imagen from Project Gutenberg: Mona Lisa en el Louvre por Leonardo da Vinci."]]﻿ **

You will find relevant resources to help you with your ideas and inspriation by browsing the shelves, or the catalogue, within the 700 - The Arts Dewey numbers.


 * 700 Arts: fine and decorative
 * 703 - dictionaries & encyclopedias
 * 708 - galleries, museums & private collections
 * 709 - historical, areas & persons


 * 720 - Architecture
 * 730 - Plastic arts; sculpture
 * 740 - Drawing & decorative arts
 * 750 - Painting & paintings
 * 760 - Photography & photographs
 * 770 - Graphic Arts; printmaking & prints

Make sure you check out Dewey Digger link below which provides you with an extensive list of online resources to get you started in your search for resources. It is sorted according to Dewey numbers (see above).

[|Dewey Digger 700 Arts]



WEBLINKS
[|Google Art Project] - Allows users to go on a virtual tour of galleries from 17 art museums worldwide with over 1000 images shown. You can zoom in on selected works, review information about the artwork and artists that created them, and in some cases view short videos about selected works. Mrs Morris highly recommends this site.

[|Artlex] - art dictionary

[|Art History Resources on the Internet] - An extensive hierarchical directory to online materials relating to art, and art history. The main directory is split into nine broad time/topical categories. Links to museums and galleries worldwide, as well as some information on prints and photography are provided.

[|Art Cyclopedia] - Over 700 leading arts sites indexed to create a searchable, thorough database of online images of visual art and the locations of the original works worldwide.

[|Artchive] - Over 2,000 scanned images of fine art, historical background on art and artists, theory and criticism, and rotating "gallery" exhibitions

[|The Artists.org] - the-artists.org features an extended database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists. The masters of the past hundred years are represented with their portrait, dates and places of birth and death, with links to web resources to find anything you want to know about them, with images of their work, comprehensive biographies and articles, and the artists' personal websites (if they exist).

[|Art History.net] -

[|Arts Serve] at the Australian National University -

[|Art Studio Chalkboard] - focusese on teh technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, colour and painting.

[|Culture and Recreation] Australian Government -

[|Google Directory Artists]

[|John Lovett]- A painters personal website featuring his work and information on the elements and principles of design.

[|SmartHistory] - think of this site as an art history textbook. It uses multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art.

[|Timeline of Art History] -

[|Web Gallery of Art] - The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1750), currently containing over 8,000 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available.

[|WWW Virtual Library Art History] - The History of Art Virtual Library is a collection of links relating to Art History.

[|Worldwide Art Resources] -

[|Yahoo Arts Directory] -

[|Yahoo Art Masters Directory] -

[|Yahoo Artists Directory Painting] -

[|Yahoo Masters Directory Photography] -

[|Yahoo Masters Directory Sculptors] -

[|A History of Photography]- concse history up to 1920

[|Black and White World Photography] -

[|Masters of Photography] - search for artists, glossary

MUSEUM WEBSITES
[|Andy Wahol Museum] -

[|Art Institute of Chicago] -

[|ArtMagick] - visual art gallery displaying paintings from art movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.

[|Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]-

[|Guggenheim] -

[|Louvre] - The Louvre is one of the world's most famous museums (and adored by Mrs Morris). Make sure you check out the [|virtual tours] of this historic and majestic museum.

[|National Museum of Women in the Arts] -

[|The British Museum] - Images of famous works owned by the British Museum are featured on this site, along with the history of the museum and general information about collections, exhibits, departments, tours, and events. Educational materials about the cultures represented in the Museum's collections are also available here.

[|The State Hermitage Museum] -

[|Sistine Chapel virtual tour] -

The Tate, London

[|Van Gogh Museum] -

[|WebMuseum] -

GMO/MJO OLMC Library 2011