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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.
Art Kids Rule! - A great place for playing, learning, and creating. Cool interactive art activities, and a whole lota' other stuff! Visit the Art Teacher area for art lessons, activities and more. You can talk art, music and more in the Artist Forums. Follow the Art Tutorials and learn about art and more.
Bill Peet - Author, Animator, Illustrator - If you are a fan of children's author Bill Peet, then this web site is for you. Mr. Peet is best known for his children's books and illustrations, but he also worked as an animator on many Disney animated films. This site not only educates the visitor about Bill Peet, but it also provides information about many of his books. The page is designed to appeal to children of all elementary ages, much the way his books do.
Brushstrokes Art - Brushstrokes are oil-on-canvas, limited edition paintings -- recreations of original master artwork. This site has several cool features too... you can select the frame for your artwork and see it within that frame, and you can preview the painting "on your wall." They have templates of different rooms that you select the wallcolor and it will show the painting in that room to give you an idea of what it will look like on your wall.
Color Matters - Color plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. It can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress your appetite. The concept of color can be approached from several disciplines: physiology, psychology, philosophy, and art. This web site provides some starting points for an exploration of color. The Color Matters web site also gives you the opportunity to speakup about color. Take the Global Color Survey, help decide the official color of our new millennium, and visit the bulletin board.
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.
Do you know Van Gogh? - In this website you can learn all about one of the most famous artists in history: Vincent Van Gogh. Who was Van Gogh? What did he do or paint? Is the ear incident a rumor? This website can answer almost all your questions.
Exploring Leonardo - Discover Leonardo da Vinci's inventions, his paintings, and even his mirror-image writing!
Faces and Figures in Art - Welcome to Faces and Figures in Art. This site touches on every aspect related to art featuring people. It outlines the history, interpretation, and techniques involved in drawing figures and portraits, and includes galleries of artwork from old masters, as well as aspiring artists.
Famous Artists - Would you like to learn more about some famous artists? Take a look at this interesting list. There is a lot of information from when they were born to when they died, and important facts about their lives and artwork.
Fine Art Online - Learn about fiber and graphic arts, artists, painting, and sculpture on this cool site from Harcourt School Publishers.
Guild.com - The largest contemporary art and fine craft e-commerce site selling the artwork of the country's top artists and galleries.
Haring Kids - Haring Kids features simple books, art activities, an interactive coloring book, and games intended to inspire a love of learning and art in children. Teachers will find numerous lesson plans for language arts, visual and performing arts, math, and so on.
Incredible Art Department - This visual arts site is for students, parents, and teachers. It includes art news, art lessons, art departments, art education and thousands of links.
Jan Brett's Home Page - A Great Place for Ideas - A collection of projects and activities of books for kids, and classroom activities and lesson plans for teachers about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
John James Audubon Gallery - John James Audubon was an artist, author, and naturalist. This is the complete collection of his printed artwork. See the beautiful detailed images of the birds and other animals in his collection.
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...).
Romanticism-from the canvas to the printing press to the opera house - In an age of sweeping revolution and change, the heart of a continent torn by hysteria and madness ventured out of the darkness of the city to return to the wilds of nature. Individuality, nature, and emotion dominated the minds of restless individuals weary of logic, reason, science, and industry. The spirit of an era awoke, fueled with passion and rebellion, and quickly spread to all aspects of culture to unveil everything contrary to the Enlightenment-- the disturbing, the supernatural, the beautiful, and the wild. Romanticism, intense and rebellious, overthrew all conventions; convention had never been defied in such a manner before, nor would it ever be restored again. This website specifies how far Romanticism pervaded culture and continent; it shows how lasting works of Romantic art, literature, and music representative of the great era are only variations on a theme.
The Impressionist Era - Impressionism is an art movement that arose in the mid 19th century in France as a result of the artistic restrictions of tradional academic painting. The style aims at defining a natural yet visually innovative use of light and color. Early Impressionists rejected not only the classical form of painting but also the subject matter associated with it. They chose to paint landscapes, city scenes and ordinary people but transformed these everyday images into vivid artistic representations. Because of the radical views of the Impressionists, in the time it was though to be insulting to the existing art community. It took many years for Impressionism to accepted by the people and the art critics. But by the late 19th century when the pioneers of Impressionism had begun to fade away and a new generation of artists were emerging, it became evident that Impressionism had been the most significant 19th century artistic movement. This site portrays the age of Impressionist from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century.
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