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Art of Australia
A useful site for finding out about the art of indigenous Australian
cultures. There are lots of examples and explanations.
Art Edventures
ArtEdventures are interactive online
games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational
activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous
works—while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!
Art Unframed
A massive Art History resource with access to more than 23,000
paintings by over 2,000 artists. simply laid out and easy to
navigate.
CGFA Fine arts
Museum 
If you're looking for a first class range of Western artists from
Greek times to the modern day, then this is the site for you. The
Artist Index lists artists in alphabetical order and you can also
search by date or school. Excellent.
Digital
Palette
This site from Worcestershire LEA is superb. It is full of ideas and
visual resources for using ICT in art together with examples of work
done be real children. f you are using computers for art work then
this is a must see site.
Impressionism
Teachers' guide to teaching about impressionism and a take "guided
tour through turn of the century France and explore the interesting
concepts that defined the Impressionism art movement"
Insideart
Do you like those adventure books where you read the page and then
make a choice at the end of the page about where you go next? You
know the ones I mean? Well this is the same! An excellent adventure
to get you looking at paintings. You'll love it!
Library of Art History
They say,"The History of Art Virtual
Library is a collection of links relating to Art History and
computer applications in Art History. The site is sponsored by
CHArt, the Computers and History of Art Group. We aim to list
sites relevant both to people with a general interest in the subject
and to students and scholars of Art History."
Medieval Book of Hours of Le Duc de Berry
Wonderful reproductions of this famous diary which was made in the
1300s. The pictures show how poor and rich people of the time passed
their daily lives in the different months of the year.
Monet
A bilingual (French / English) site dedicated to the works of the
first Impressionist. Images are there but very slow to load.
Rembrandt
Basic information about Rembrandt and a lot of pictures to view and
download.
Van Gogh
Information Gallery
Wow! If you want to find out anything about the man and his work
(including recent news and developments) this is the site for you.
There are graphics, too, for every one of his Gogh's 876 paintings
(as well as an additional 1,326 graphics on the drawings, letter
sketches and watercolours).
World Wide Arts Resources
A wonderfully rich site, which describes itself as "The largest
gateway to the arts in the world" and having used it we're inclined
to believe it!
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Galleries and Museums
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EncycloZine Gallery of Famous Art
A small collection of famous images. Very useful! Includes Picasso's
Guitar , Whistler's Mother, Rembrant's self portrait, Turner's
Burning of the Houses of Parliament, Mona Lisa as well as works by
Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Rodin, Escher, Renoir and Dali.
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
A small, but informative site about this major provincial museum.
The Fitzwilliam has an excellent education department and their
Egyptian gallery is a great place to take KS2 children.
Global Children's Art Gallery
Just what it says on the tin - a place for viewing and displaying
art by children from all round the world.
The Hayward
Gallery, London
Information about major touring exhibitions of modern art and media.
Regularly updated.
The Louvre
The famous museum in Paris
The Metropolitan Museum of New York
Superb site. Huge number of online images together with information
about them. You can search for artists by name and can even make
your own online museum collection. The home page features a
different ArtiFact each day.
Museums Around the United Kingdom
Links to all the museums in the United Kingdom - at least all those
that have websites. Find out where to go and what to see. A must for
planning school visits. Regularly updated.
The National Gallery, London
Information about Britain's national art collection. You can visit
parts of the gallery on-line and view paintings from the collection.
They have a superb education department, with good information
on-line.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington
Searchable for information about pictures and artists. Lots of
images from the collection can be viewed.
The National Portrait Gallery, London
Visit this fascinating gallery and see painted portraits of famous
people. Find out what all those historical characters really
looked like! Again, excellent educational facilities.
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The National Portrait Gallery, Washington
This is the website of America's equivalent of our NPG.
The
Prado Museum
Visit the museum and see good quality images of some of their
collection.
The Tate Gallery, London
A slick website with links to the Tate's other sites around the
country, including St Ives and Liverpool. It has a full catalogue of
works in the collection, but disappointingly few illustrations. The
site now also has pages and samples from the new Tate Modern.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The V&A is the world's largest museum of decorative arts. This is a
flashy and complex site which isn't easy to navigate - but it's
worth sticking at it. By using the tours under the explore
option you can view a selection of objects from the various
galleries.
WebMuseum, Paris
Lists of painters and movements. Lots of background information and
lots of images for each page.
William Morris Gallery
An interesting site about this popular Victorian designer. It has a
page for children and an on-line exhibition of Morris' works. You
can even download Morris wallpaper designs for your computer
desktop!
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Other Interesting Art Sites
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Art Attack
The website of the well known children's TV program.
Artcyclopedia
A huge site with a featured museum page and links to other museums
worldwide. Search the database of over 6,000 artists' names. Choose
an artist and it will give you links to the museums or galleries
where the artists's work can be found and sites where illustrations
and information can be found. Excellent.
Art Teacher on the Net
An award winning American site aimed at children, teachers and
parents. (The art treacher is called Valerie Colston). The site is
colourful and eyecatching and is packed with ideas for artistic
projects and activities as well as other art related information.
A Pintura, Art Detective
An interactive detective adventure to help children from KS2 upwards
learn about art and artists.The player has to identify a mystery
work of art by comparing it to the work of 6 well known artists.
ArtsConnectEd
Site of the Minneapolis Institute of arts. Includes indexes of
lesson plans and activities and links to other sites with similar
resources.
The Bayeux
Tapestry
The entire tapestry illustrated in 35 sections, with a brief
description of each. You can also view highlights and information
about the construction and history of the tapestry.
CBBC Art Index
Online activities, art ideas and information for children. Great
site which asks children to contribute.
The Collage Portal
An image database containing over 20,000 works from the Guildhall
Library and Guildhall Art Gallery in London.
Fixing Shadows
This site is subtitled STILL PHOTOGRAPHY. They say, "Fixing shadows
consists of a set of pages devoted to photographic topics including
the work of individual photographers and photographs of historical
and ethnographic interest and value. We also want to develop pages
devoted to family photography and to miscellaneous "found"
photographs that catch our fancy." There are both photographs and
articles. The site has links to lots of interesting things including
the pages about the photography of Lewis Carroll.
Incredible Art Department
An American site, but with loads of information and links which are
useful for teachers in the UK. Lesson plans are available, too!
Inside Art
An interactive adventure that takes you for a close look at of one
of Van Gogh's paintings. You are visiting a museum when suddenly you
are sucked inside the painting! To get out you must fine out more
about the picture and the artist.
A Lifetime of Color
This is a great site. There are sections on creating, studying and
teaching art (lots of ideas, hints, lessons plans etc) and a
collection of art related games (several of which are mentioned
separately elsewhere on this page.
Northumberland Art Information Sheets
A collection of posters and worksheets on different aspects of art
eg. Tone, Line, Colour, Pattern, Texture and many more. All
downloadable for free.
Painting the Weather
From the BBC, collections of paintings featuring aspects of the
weather. Paintings can be viewed together with notes. There are
collections about spring, summer, fog, rain etc.
Regional Arts Pages
This is the UK Arts' Councils's website. Very useful site for
teachers to find out what is going on locally in the arts.
Using Web Based Resources in Primary Art and Design
A useful PDF document from Becta
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Business Studies
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Biz/Ed
A unique (it claims) business and economics service for students, teachers and
lecturers. Facts about a number of major companies, World business data, Learning
Materials etc.
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Sculpture
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21st Century British Sculpture
A collection of information about and images of the work of an
enormous range of modern British sculptors.
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QCA
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Links that might be useful in planning
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Eduwight
Isle of Wight LEA's Art & Design page. Links, resources and ideas
for the QCA Units.
Teacher Express
Useful links and ideas for several of the QCA Units.
4C Journeys
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy is a sculptor who uses natural materials to build
his sculptures. This section of the 21st Century British Sculpture
site is a collection of photos showing examples of his work and of
him working. Correspondent Margaret Allen recommends these photos
for use with the QCA module on Journeys. She says, "The
last thirteen photos, I think, give a really good analogy of a
journey taken. From the beginning - Where you plan it, with some of
the experiences along the way, where you are sometimes on your own,
at other times you could do with some company. Sometimes things go
well, and you need to look back and reflect and look back from
different perspectives / angles until you reach your destination
which again offers all sorts of opportunites / views etc."
Sign Posts
This page from the Heritage Woods On Line website gives some ideas
for using a woodland visit this topic. (This is a pdf
document. You will need the free pdf reader to view it - there is a
link on our Resources
Home page).
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Software |
Here is a a selection useful programs that you can download
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Art Rage
Great painting program which has tools that mimic real brushes,
pastels, chalks etc. The full version costs but the free version has
enough facilities to keep your pupils happy for ages.
Drawing for Children
A simple painting program that is free to download. Younger children
will love it.
IrfanView (pronounced "ear fan view")
Still one of the best free photo-managing programs. Great for
viewing photos and for simple photo-manipulations such as cropping,
rotating, colour adjusting, resizing etc.
Pixia
This is a fully featured graphics editor. It is totally
free and has oodles of facilities. Tutorials can be found by
following links from the website.
Photofiltre
Another excellent fully featured image editor which is freely
downloadable. There are lots of add-ons that can be downloaded from
the site but most come with the instructions in French (Most are
pretty obvious even if you don't parle Français).
Seans'
Magic Slate
A very simple piece of colouring software for small
children.
Tux Paint
An excellent simpe painting program. |
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