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BBC	Download, watch and listen to professional artists' work commissioned for /arts. Click on the images to see the artwork and find out about the artist more
New Gallery Walsall	Within easy reach from any Staffordshire school the New Gallery Walsall provides teachers with an excellent resource to examine the visual and performing arts! The New Art Gallery - Walsall
Aboriginal Art	The Aboriginal Paintings Gallery offers an exciting selection of contemporary works Contemporary Aboriginal art

Oriental Arts      North American          Asian Art

                    

African Arts	Adire Textiles	Owen Hargreaves

Sculpture :

Ceramics- really useful site for all aspects of ceramics

Sculpture workshops – some interesting projects can be found on:

Art History resources on the Web - find sculpture from different times and places.

Sculpture and Technology – find out how artists are using 3D modelling software and rapid prototyping technology to create sculptures from computers.

Techniques:

Crafts	A web site dedicated to bringing the arts and the artisans of Africa online.	Exquisite Handmade Indonesian Batik Paintings and Textiles
	Decorating paper using wax resist

 

National Society for education in art and design -NSEAD

The amount of information on this site (and its accessibility) has massively increased following the merger of the Art Education.co.uk site and the NSEAD. It includes details of 200 publications, 300 units of work, over 600 links to other sites, abstracts of over 600 Journal articles ;details of the Artist Teacher Scheme, upcoming conferences and events, message board, market place, etc, etc. Perhaps the best feature is that the whole site is searchable. Just type in a keyword, or combination of keywords, such as 'primary' and 'drawing' and you will find your way to articles, books, links, events, news items or whatever.

Please note that if you are not an NSEAD member you cannot access every area of the site. Those that are should use the password and member ID printed on the reverse of their membership card.

Welcome to ArtLex. You will find definitions for more than 3,200 terms used in visual culture, along with thousands of images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.

Art4net  Global links to Art museums and individual artists

Museum of Modern Art MOMA : Giacometti  and more!!

Surrealism the art of self discovery.
"The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life."
                                                                                         - Carl Jung

The Wild Beasts of Early 20th Century Art.
This site is dedicated to the small group of artists who, shortly after the turn of the century, exploded onto the scene with a wild, vibrant style of expressionistic art that shocked the critics but has since been recognized as one of the seminal forces that drove modern art.The Fauves

Matisse and Picasso an interactive web site with archive, video and search facilities.

Futurism was an international art movement founded in Italy in 1909. It was (and is) a refreshing contrast to the weepy sentimentalism of Romanticism. The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities; they embraced the exciting new world that was then upon them rather than hypocritically enjoying the modern world’s comforts while loudly denouncing the forces that made them possible. Fearing and attacking technology has become almost second nature to many people today; the Futurist manifestos show us an alternative philosophy.

The Artchive   
Artists ancient and modern are surveyed in this impressive gallery. Several images of each artist's work are presented, with high-resolution versions available for maximum scrutiny, plus commentary and further reading suggestions on many well-known figures.

Richard Long

River Avon Mud ARC
Bilboa, Guggenheim Museum

Art made by walking in landscapes. Photographs of sculptures made along the way. Walks made into textworks.

Selected exhibitions and a list of solo exhibitions.

Andy Goldsworthy

During his teenage days as a hired hand on farms outside Leeds, where he grew up, Goldsworthy began to explore the patterns of nature by arranging its building blocks in unexpected ways, such as these. Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist who uses nature as a partner, raises this question with his works of breathtaking beauty, some of them ephemeral, some meant to last

Located with the Commonwealth Institute this area of their web site is a catalogue of the exhibition 'This Earth for Us, stories and art from Australia's First People'. Here you have a definitive site. Artists profile, images, contextual references to the works and links to other stakeholders. You can even purchase on line! Starbeck Educational Resources. aim to bring the world of ethnic art to your school. Starbeck currently supply in excess of 1000 schools and colleges throughout the UK, with special importance being attached to Art, Music, Geography and Natural History work. Our range reflects the current outlines of the National Curriculum and is updated on an on-going basis; providing a range of original ethnic artefacts from all over the world including East, West, Central and Southern Africa, South America, the Far East and Polynesia. All the products in their collection have been hand picked and specially imported by Starbeck and range from the very primitive to the very ornate. Starbeck can even visit your school or district to showcase their products on offer via the services of their mobile showroom. This is available in your area at least once a term. They will bring a new dimension to your school by opening up the exciting world of new and diverse cultures. They can offer you a bespoke service to source affordable artefacts that will add a new dimension to the work of your pupils. Philip Cox Philip is famous for his paper sculptures and has undertaken residencies across Staffordshire schools.  Visit his website to see the range of work he has undertaken:

Welcome to the Axis: Axis is a national contemporary visual arts service providing information about artists and makers living/working in Britain to a national and international audience. It is the largest interactive database of contemporary British art on the Internet. 

Virtual Art Gallery. 

Art initiatives within Staffordshire Schools and their communities:

Staffordshire Schools Millennium Art Exhibition

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Click here for Gallery Listings Here you can find reference to both local and National Art Galleries (gallery names, addresses, Education Officer and contact information) .

David Mach the sculptor with a difference :see the "Polaris submarine" made from 6,000 tyres! Still in its development stage this site promises so much!uge website that hosts the largest,

Chris Witcombe, professor in Art History. Recommended site to Art History resources on the web. 

A comprehensive Art History Resource covering:- Prehistoric, Ancient, Middle Ages, 15 & 16th Century Renaissance, Baroque, 18th 19th & 20th Century periods in art: Prints and Photographs, research resources, Non European art, and links to Museums and Galleries Worldwide. Something for everyone!!

Resources " online"

Shorewood Publications provide quality posters; to inform a wide range of projects and topics. 

Their web site features 4500 prints covering the history of art from Cave Painting to the present day with a wide range of non-western art and artefacts.  (including biographies and also providing free accompanying notes for teachers on some of their print collections).

Annely Juda Fine Art - Gallery    Contemporary Artists

Computer Arts

Online electronic arts magazine -cutting edge developments in commercial applications for the more advanced!

EuroGallery "Search" for artists or themes.

The National Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of the EuroGallery search site for major European art collections. Galleries from across Europe have made their collections available online. Participants in the EuroGallery project are Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), State Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg), Mauritshuis (The Hague), Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam), the Louvre (Paris) and the National Gallery (London). Additional links will shortly be made to the Uffizi (Florence), and Prado (Madrid). 

A feature of this site is that it can provide multiple works by a specific artist or on a particular theme.

Harvard University Art Museums
Collections Online provides access to basic information about every object on exhibition in our galleries, and about 85,000 works of art. An excellent search engine and enlargement facility to image library collection.

This page last updated 05 November 2007

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