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research guide
Visual Arts Online
Kids & Classrooms / Museums
/ Visual Hot Spots / Finding Images on
the Web
Kids & Classrooms
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A "compendium of arts education research studies that explores critical
links between learning in the arts and the nation's ability to meet this
goal."
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Bridge provides "arts programs for homeless children in an environment that
fosters their sense of childhood, joy, creativity and exuberance." An online
gallery offers examples of homeless children's artwork.
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"Start with the Arts is an instructional program for four-, five- and
six-year-olds that uses the arts to assist young children, including those
with disabilities, in exploring themes commonly taught in early childhood
classrooms."
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The San Francisco Exploratorium selects "ten cool sites" every month in
the arts and sciences, and provides a subject index to sites they've identified
over the years, including art, art museums, and k-12 sites.
Museums
Visual Hot Spots
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The Cyber Art Gallery Eindhoven was established by Dutch artist Rolf van
Gelder. It features "contemporary artworks by young emerging artists from
all over the world." Cool Art Links direct the searcher to over 1500 other
art websites. Flash required.
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This site features the exquisite stained glass windows created by Marc
Chagall to honor the 50th anniversary of Hadassah at the synagogue of the
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem. Windows may be viewed
as thumbnails or as full screens, with the Biblical passages that inspired
them.
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Presented by OncoLink at the University of Pennsylvania, this online gallery
offers artwork and poetry by cancer patients. Don't miss the Children's
Gallery.
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Online art collections featuring art from Haiti and the Amazon, folk art
from around the world, paintings reflective jazz and blues, as well as prints,
still lifes, urban landscapes and country roads, and contemporary art.
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George Eastman House collects and interprets images, films, literature,
and equipment in the disciplines of photography and motion pictures -- and
it cares for the George Eastman legacy collections -- to inspire discovery
and learning for a regional, national, and international audience. Choose
Photography Collections Online to enter the virtual exhibits.
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Dancer Bill T. Jones had his dancing body wired for computer imaging.
See his movements translated into animated computer sketches, with clear
demonstration of the process.
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Dedicated to changing the perceptions of those that consider Native American
art and technology "primitive,"this site explores various areas of Native
American art and technology, including their history and development, emphasizing
the Eastern Woodlands region.
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"A resource for information about Night Photography and its intersection
with all things Nocturnal - music, literature, other night imagery, poetry,
pop culture, and science."
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is buidling this beautiful timeline
of images and text about art around the world from 20,000 BC to 1600 AD,
with plans to continue to the present.
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Yahoo links to the arts by medium or country, to museums and organizations,
and to art therapy sites.
Have you discovered a Visual Hot Spot? I'll add it to the list. Send e-mail
to kholmes@lesley.edu.
Finding Images On The Web
- The following collections can be found on the Library database page. Access
Library database page through the myLibrary tab in myLesley.
Need help? Go to "Get
Started."
- Academic Search Premier Database
Search the Image Collections in this
multi-disciplinary Database.
Notice the "Image Collections" icon
in the blue bar at the top of the screen. Limit to type of illustration
desired - a great place to start for any search!
- Art Museum Image Gallery
The Art Museum Image Gallery is a growing online collection of fine art
images from around the world. Works from major European, American, and
Canadian artists in the collections of member museums are included. Cultures
and time periods
range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art,
to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese
works.
- Bridgeman Art Gallery
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Thousands of artists, styles and subjects are represented in an archive
of more than 100,000 images of painting, sculpture, architecture
and the decorative arts from the Bridgeman1s collections." This searchable
collection is a feature of the Dictionary of Art, a full-text
database.
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Searchable index to museum-quality fine art images on the Web. Search
by artist's name, title of image, museum name or location.
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Lycos has posted this helpful and clear statement of the copyright issues
on using graphics found on the Web.
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Use Google's powerful search engine to search for images - fast. The Advanced
Image Search enables you to search by image size, file type and coloration,
as well as to filter out mature content.
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04/19/07 | 10:16 AM
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