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Art and Culture - ArtandCulture.com is a dynamic destination that delivers unique access to the best arts and cultural content and related products available on the web today. Staffed by a team of expert curators, ArtandCulture.com provides visitors with the complete consumer experience. Comprehensive information and shopping services enable visitors to find exactly what they are looking for and even discover something new.
Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet - If you only had more Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh, you might be able to get to a museum to see art like this. But until then, visit a palette of museums online. Searchable by the name of the artist or museum, this site Rubens, er, rules!
Asian Arts - See the rich art of many cultures in this electronic journal devoted to Asian arts. You'll be linked to online museum exhibits, articles about new discoveries, and many graphics of traditional Asian art. Explore the different media that the artists used. Weavings, sculpture, metal engravings, masks, paintings, clay tablets, carvings, and more await you.
Christo & Jeanne-Claude Home Page - Most sculptors make artwork from stone, metals, or other substances. Christo and Jeanne-Claude make artwork out of landscapes. For example, there was the Running Fence. Made of shimmering white fabric, it was 5.5 meters (18 feet) high and ran 40 kilometers (24.5 miles). It began north of San Francisco and followed rolling hills until at last it dropped down to the Pacific Ocean at Bodega Bay. It was completed on September 10, 1976, and remained in place for two weeks. More recent projects include fabric panels above the Arkansas River (Colorado) and a special wall made of 13,000 oil barrels (Germany). What do you think these artistic statements mean? Visit the Web site to be astounded by more of Christo and Jeanne-Claude¹s impressive and thought-provoking large-scale sculptures....
Dictionary of Art Terms - Here is a place to find the answers to questions about art. Go through the dictionary to find the definition of any art term you can think of.
Faberge Easter Eggs 3W Guide - At the turn of the twentieth century, Peter Faberge was named "The Jeweler of his Emperor's Majesty and the Jeweler of the Emperor's Hermitage" to Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. His skill in designing and crafting intricate, jeweled Easter eggs was unsurpassed. Would you like to see examples of these magical eggs, encrusted with gemstones such as diamonds and rubies? Step right up!
Fremlin's Forgery: The Art of Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing & Metal Art - Not only can this journeyman blacksmith shoe a horse, but he can also craft a beautiful rose out of metal! How does he do it? Online tutorials reveal some of his secrets, and while you're oohing and aahing over his work, you can hear audio of his hammer ringing on the anvil.
Fresco Workshop - Do you know what a fresco is? It isn't a can of diet soda or a city in California. It's a form of artwork, and--get this--it's painted right on the walls. Traditionally, plaster is poured in layers and is tinted as it dries. The end result is a lasting piece of art. The world's earliest known frescoes are the cave paintings of Lascaux, France. They were made some 30,000 years ago--that's old! Historically, the technique was developed in ancient Greece, and it was incorporated into Minoan and Roman artwork. This series of pages takes you through the process step by step, as a group of people create a fresco of a playground scene.
Glass Works: The Story of Glass and Glass-Making in Canada - This virtual exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization may shatter any preconceived notions you may have about the history of glassmaking. You will clearly see how glass is made and how it is used. In "panestaking" detail, you will learn about everything from industrial to inspirational glass. This site offers a window into the glittering realm of glass: come see!
Guild.com - The largest contemporary art and fine craft e-commerce site selling the artwork of the country's top artists and galleries.
Incredible Art Department - A shifty-eyed Mona Lisa welcomes you to explore this intriguing toolbox of art lessons, projects, cartoons about art, and art news. You'll find projects for everyone, from preschoolers all the way up to college kids. Try some of these: Q-Tip painting, cool flip books, or aboriginal bark painting.
Jan Brett's Home Page - Jan Brett illustrates the most magical picture books, giving us a window into her fairy-tale world of big rumbley bears, little apple-cheeked girls, and cunning pen and brush work. Her Web site gives some details about how she tackles a new project. For example, before starting on the illustrations for the beloved poem "The Owl and the Pussycat," Brett visited the Caribbean Island of Martinique to get some ideas for landscapes, boats, island colors, and other items. You can download a current calendar and some screen wallpaper, and explore links connected with her many books.
Kokomo Opalescent Glass - Visit a stained glass factory, where they create beautiful glass shimmering with opalescent colors. Take the virtual tour to see this process. A mixture of glass is shoveled, by hand, into the "twelve-pot furnace," which is heated to a temperature exceeding 2400 degrees Fahrenheit. Over a 17-hour period, all the glass melts into a liquid. The "table man" rings a bell every minute and a half, which means it's time to pour another sheet of glass. The men use large ladles to scoop up the fiery hot glass. Then, "ladles full and cooling fast, the ladlers run to the mixing table. They keep the glass in constant motion to keep it from cooling unevenly on the way. Trailing molten threads behind them, as many as five people (one for each color in the sheet) converge on the mixing table. Tread carefully, assume everything is hot, and if you smell rubber burning you better check your own shoes first!" Visit the site to learn the rest of the process, see many samples of colors and patterns, and be inspired by the windows displayed in the online gallery.
Landscape Painting - In three easy lessons, the Smithsonian Institution provides an interesting look at landscape painting. Do the paintings of the American West faithfully represent the country? Can you paint a realistic view of a rocky shoreline using a photograph as your model? You'll learn about this and more!
Make a Splash with Color - San Jose's TheTech museum has a nifty online exhibit about color. You'll learn how to describe a color based on its hue, saturation, and brightness. As they explain it, hue helps you tell which bananas in the bunch are ripe. Saturation is the color difference between your chocolate milk and your sister's chocolate milk. And brightness tells us the difference between plain white bread and burnt toast.
Monet at Giverny - Turn of the century French artist Claude Monet is famous for his garden and water lily paintings. His garden at Giverny has been reproduced online so you can stroll about and see where some of Monet's works were created. Select either the flower or water garden and begin your exploration. As you move the miniature Monet around, photographs, paintings, and facts will appear. See if you can find a painting of a Japanese bridge.
Nathan Youngblood, from Earth to Object - Everyone likes to play with clay, but most people buy their clay at the store. Not Nathan Youngblood. He digs his own special clay and sand, which are mixed to form a slurry. When the clay mixture reaches the right consistency, it is allowed to set until the perfect texture is achieved. Later, he begins to form his pots. You can follow the whole process from earth to object here and see the beautiful results!
NextMonet.com - Featuring expert advice, collecting tips and the largest selection of contemporary fine art, original paintings, prints and photographs for sale online.
PaintingsDirect.com - With PaintingsDirect.com it's never been so easy to find and buy paintings. With our search engines and our database of hundreds of paintings, you can search paintings by painter or by other criteria (size, price, color, theme, etc...).
Rolling Ball Web - If we said, "Kinetic sculpture," you might say, "Huh?" How about marble runs--do you know what they are? No? OK, then how about those cool machines you see in museums, airports, and malls with the balls that travel around mazes of tracks, doing strange things like ringing bells, inflating balloons, traveling in elevators, only to get to the bottom and travel up to the beginning again? Now you know what we mean! This no-frills page is a collection of kinetic art resources that reside on the Web, but the links have not been checked.
Textiles Through Time - What if we didn't have any malls? Where would people go to buy their clothes? Throughout most of history, people have had to make their own clothes, fabric, and fibers. This site links museum textile collections around the world. See handmade fabrics, including clothing, quilts, ceremonial artifacts, and a whole lot more. You'll also find links to the Bayeux Tapestry, Hmong needlework, and exquisite Japanese kimonos.
The World of Escher - Waterfalls that flow up? Stairs that seem to keep going down, yet, suddenly, they're back on top of a building? These inexplicable drawings by M. C. Escher must be seen to be believed. There's a contest, too. Can you make a drawing like this?
Vincent Van Gogh - Do you know Van Gogh? You will after you visit this site. Discover his artworks and learn the facts about his life, "the ear incident," and his struggle with epilepsy. There's a quiz and a word search game, too. This site was created by students for the ThinkQuest Junior competition.
Walter S. Arnold / Sculptor - Virtual Sculpture Gallery - Have you ever tried to hold as still as a statue? Statues are a form of art called sculpture. A sculpture starts as a block (usually wood or stone) and ends up as a piece of art. Walter S. Arnold is a sculptor who makes all sorts of art. He sculpts a lot of really neat things, such as gargoyles and park fountains. Learn about the tools sculptors use under the Resources link at "carving tools." Stop by the Virtual Sculpture Gallery and treat yourself to a very creative collection of art and ideas. Send gargoyle postcards to your friends. There is also a visual dictionary of types of marble.
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