Drawing, Painting, Art Museums and Art Resources
Updated 1/09/08Art Museums and Online Art Exhibitions
- The de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion in Lincoln Park comprise the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Together, these two museums house the most comprehensive and highest quality art collections in the northwest region of the United States. Over 50% of their images are available online.
- Web Museum Famous Paintings
- A listing of links to famous paintings from throughout history. Just a click or two is all that is needed in order to view a famous painting by a famous painter.
- World Arts Resources
- This site attempts to compile all visual arts information that is available via the World Wide Web.
- Diego Rivera Web Museum
- Pintor muralista, fue uno de los grandes artistas del Siglo XX. Nació en la ciudad de Guanajuato y en 1892 se trasladó a México con su familia. Estudió en la academia de San Carlos y en el taller del grabador José Guadalupe Posada, cuya influencia fue decisiva. Más adelante recibió en París la influencia del post-impresionismo y del cubismo, en cuyo lenguaje se expresó con soltura.
- Asian Arts
- An attractive, interestingly designed page, with lots of useful areas and links.
- African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
- "African artifacts have generally been exhibited with reference only to cultural context and use. In view of recent studies of African aesthetic principles and related moral and religious values, there is good reason to emphasize the formal aesthetic aspects of the objects and the moral and religious ideas they express."
- San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art
- One of the newest modern art museums on the planet. Check out their Web Page, and maybe you will be wanting to make the drive down to S.F. before long.
- Museum of San Francisco
- A museum of historical information, about the events San Francisco, and of course, California as well!.
- The Electric Gallery
- Many of the painters exhibiting here hang in prestigious galleries and museums. Some of these paintings are in private collections. Most of them are available for purchase.
- Virtual Photo Gallery
- Collection of links to online photo galleries and exhibits. This is an excellent collection, with several famous photographers listed. Sponsored by LIFE magazine.
- Ansel Adams
- The Home Page for information on Ansel Adams, including his photographs of the University of California campuses made for a special centennial exhibition and celebration. (The original book of Adams photos is out of print.)
- Andy Warhol
- Yup, he's on the Web too!
- Christo Wraps and More
- Christo is a very unusual contemporary artist, working on a quite large scale.
- The Chagall Windows
- The Synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center is illuminated by a hanging lantern and by sunlight which streams through the magnificent Marc Chagall Windows. Chagall was a Russian-born painter, printmaker, and designer whose works combine images from personal experience with formal symbolic and aesthetic elements by virtue of their inner poetic force, rather than by rules of pictorial logic. Preceding Surrealism, his early works were among the first expressions of psychic reality in modern art. His works in various mediums include sets for plays and ballets, etchings illustrating the Bible, and stained-glass windows.
- M.C. Escher Gallery
- A gateway to many of the images to one of the most fascinating artists of the 20th Century. Escher is best know for his many drawings based on optical illusions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
- A virtual museum dedicated to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci. The original "Renaissance Man", Leonardo da Vinci was a great painter, designer, scientist, futurist and thinker. His works are even more popular now than they were in his day.
- Paintings of Vermeer
- Vermeer's paintings! Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) created luscious canvases of limited scope: generally women and men in seventeenth-century rooms, but also occasional outdoor scenes, allegory and religious themes. The fascination lies with the intricate combination of light, color, proportion and scale that enhances the moods and reality of the subjects.
Other Related Arts and Exhibitions
- Grotte Palolithique
- Images and comments from a Paleolithic Era cave in France with drawings on the walls. Great virtual view.
- Old Postcard Exhibition
- A man in Sweden displays some of his historic postcards!
- The Museum of Papermaking
- The American Museum of Papermaking is an internationally renowned resource on the history of paper and paper technology.
- Smithsonian Art Museum
- Photography Net Resources
- Photography resources on the Net compiled by Steve Dietz. Recent
links are listed first and then alphabetically.
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