Art Department
Year 12
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AS Art Course
Useful Websites for our Year 12 Students
Artcyclopaedia
This is on a mission to become the definitive and most effective guide to fine art on the web. You can research the index of 6,000 artists to find related sites
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
This covers every major art period from prehistory to modern, with each historical period subdivided into movements and key artists. There are also extensive links to museums and galleries across the world, and to sites covering art from non-European cultures. Truely panoramic
New British Artists. This is well worth a look. The work of Emma Hill is paticularly good, if you like pattern, strong colour and aboriginal art.
Fabulous museums to visit.
It is crucial that you visit these museums on-line, at least once during the course. We would also expect you to visit a range a number of museums throughout the course
Centre Pompidou. (This is worth looking at for the building alone) www.cnac-gp.fr
Guggenheim, Bilbao (This is also worth looking at for the building alone) www.guggenheim.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York's finest, over 5,000 years of Art) www.metamuseum.org
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Some great contextual stuff on Native American Art) www.artsmia.org
The Museum of Modern Art (Frith street, London, an easy one to visit) www.moma.org
National Portrait Gallery (This is a really excellent site, again, in London) www.npg.org.uk
Royal Academy, London www.royalacademy.org.uk
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( This has information on Anselm Kiefer) www.sfmoma.org
Walker Art Centre www.walkerart.org
Victoria and Albert Museum (Excellent for Fashion/Textiles etc.) www.vam.ac.uk
Pitt Rivers Museum (As featured in the Philip Pullman 'Dark Materials' books, this is a fascinating Victorian museum in Oxford. It includes real shrunken heads within the exhibits) www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Useful websites for our Year 13 students
Art Lovers Guide to Britain and Ireland
This is a detailed guide to more than 650 public art collections and 1,900 artists in Britain and Ireland, allowing you to search by artist, museum, geographical location or exhibitions, perfect in helping you with your Contextual Study work, particularly if you want to go and see works of art first hand.
Web Gallery of Traditional Art
A virtual gallery of more than 1,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures from 1150 to 1750. You can browse the collection from the alphabetical artist index or select selected pictures. You can also select one of nine guided tours giving an overview of particular periods, genres or locations. It is worth visiting for the stunning tour of the Sistene Chapel in Rome alone. As an added bonus, any of the pictures can be converted into an e-mail 'post-card' to be sent to friends or family.(And it plays you music!)
