Featured Sites:
Select from among five activities that progressively challenge students' abilities to look carefully at the visual arts.
ArtLex:
Dictionary of Visual Art
This
site is for artists, students and educators in art production, criticism,
history, aesthetics, and education. You will find definitions of
more than 2,800 terms here, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation
notes, great quotations, and links.
Art
Museum Network
The
official website of many art museums
Color
Matters
The
concept of color can be approached from several disciplines:physiology,
psychology, philosophy, and art. This site explores the ways color
can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions.
Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco
Among
other features, this website presents an art "Imagebase" as a searchable
catalogue of collections: paintings, drawings, etchings, porcelain,
sculpture, silver, glass, furniture, textiles, and more.
IllusionWorks
This
site presents a collection of optical and sensory illusions, including
interactive demonstrations, scientific explanations, school
projects,
illusion artwork, interactive puzzles, 3D graphics, and suggested reading
lists.
National Art Education Association
National Museum of American Art (NMAA)
Teachers Helping Teachers: The Arts
Voice
of the Shuttle
Website
for humanities research
WebMuseum,
Paris
Includes
the Famous Painting Exhibition
Instructional Technology Center - Muscogee County School District - Columbus, Georgia