Art Links
Please note: I frequently get requests for reciprocating links to other sites, and must confess that I often don't respond if the site does not offer content which I feel is related to the scope of this site (i.e, art historical sites that offer a new perspective, or artist's sites who have an original vision). That said, you are welcome to ask (unless you are a gambling casino or sell reproductions made in China).
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Contemporary
Artists
Friends Sites and Artists of Imagination
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Andrew
Gonzalez
"Galerie Sublimatrix" features the transfigurative and
esoteric work of Andrew Gonzalez. A San Antonio artist, Andrew says
that ideas that stoke his imagination include his research into comparative
religion and mythology. "The organic imagery of the work reflects
the prima-materia transformed into the biosophic fire of the sensualized
spirit. " |
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Antonio
Roybal
Visionary artist, Antonio Roybal states that he "searches for
universal symbols that vibrate at unconscious and conscious levels,
then using their significance to reach the soul and thereby facilitate
universal understanding". He seeks a world beyond normal perceptions,
a window into the past, present and future. Very nice site and graphics. |
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Suzy
Olsen
Suzy's abstract monoprints often derive from her experiences of meditations
on the physical energies within the body. Her gallery also represents
her more realist-inspired watercolors. A very special bonus are some
pages devoted to her renovation of an ancient villa in Tuscany, where
she invites friends and artists to retreat with her. |
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Amanda Sage
Working with Ernst and Michael Fuchs in Vienna, Amanda has learned
much of the traditions of the Renaissance "mische" technique
directly from the visionary masters. Her own work spans traditional
still-life and portraiture to the surreal and even expressionistic.
Her website utilizes flash content. |
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Monica
Kovac
Monica is an artist living in Quebec. Her "inner landscapes"
are full of mystery and rich fantasy visions. |
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Leslie
Anderson
Another excellent site, Leslie Anderson creates lyrical narratives using
the medium of egg tempera. A small gallery of recent works, it also
includes a page which illustrates her artistic process. |
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Lori Field creates incredible mixed media paintings, utilizing colored pencil, encaustic, rice paper and thread. A favorite! |
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Kelly
Borsheim
Kelly is a long-time
friend who is a sculptor and painter. Her site features info on how
she creates her stone sculptures and realistic figurative drawings and
paintings. |
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Ilka's Attic
a.k.a. Susan Tuttle... a self-taught, mixed media artist who resides
in Maine. She works in collage, assemblage, altered art, and abstract
intuitive painting. |
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Karl Franklin
Karl Franklin is the originator of the Surrealist WebRing and a self-taught
artist who calls his work "Social Realism". In addition to
several galleries of his own works, his site includes a featured guest
artist, surreal writings, and art links. |
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Healing
Arts
This is a terrific site about how art has the power to heal the psyche.
It includes articles about healing the self through art, the history of
the idea, and artists who choose to focus on this aspect of art. See the
links page! |
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Art
Visionary Magazine
Art Visionary is a magazine focusing on surreal and fantasy-based
art. They have many links to some incredible artists. |
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Outsider
Art/Folk Art:
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http://www.junglegossip.com
This is the site for Edward James' incredible surrealist architecture,
built in a remote mountain village in central Mexico. Excellent photos,
essays on its eccentric creator, and information about staying at Posada
El Castillo, which is just as marvelous. |
Raw Vision
This is my favorite online arts magazine. Preview articles on Outsider
art in "Back Issues".
Raw Art Links A terrific
site for exploring a multitude of individual "outsider artists"
Yard-dog Features the work of folk, outsider, and visionary artists of the American
South. "These self-taught artists live in big cities, small towns, and
on farms. They include anglos, african americans, and native americans. All
share in common a vitality and a passion that is rendered tangible in the
arts"
David
Leonard's Gallery High quality, mainstream contemporary folk art gallery
features several "outsider" artists.
Art
Crimes:The Writing on the Wall Graffiti art indexed by country, state,
city
Interesting
Ideas Links to roadside art, outsider pages, and "interesting ideas".
A little quirky. Of special interest, E.T.
Wickham 's remarkable statues and memorials line a back road near Palmyra,
south of Clarksville, Tennessee. They have been pulverized by vandals in the
decades since he built them in the '50s, but their beauty is undiminished.
If anything, ruin has added its own kind of eloquence. Also see their extensive
links page to outsider artists.
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Photography
and Collage Sites:
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Jerry
Uelsmann (a favorite)
The incredibly surrealistic photography of well known artist, Jerry
Uelsmann. Also try its affiliated site,
Zonezero,
which features several other international photographers.
Misha
Gordin Another of my favorites within the ring...the conceptual photography
of Misha Gordin. Excellent, eerie, slightly dark-natured. |
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Teesha Moore Journal pages of an incredible (and prolific) collage artist... very inspiring |
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Sharin
Kambiz: Photomontage This
is one of my favorite sites by a single contemporary artist, Sharin Kambiz,
who creates extraordinary collages, interactive images, and short videos.
You can also download e-cards and a very cool desktop saver with a floating
baby. The site requires the Flash plug-in, but is worth downloading if
you don't have it. Click images to navigate through the
site.
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Griffin and Sabine This is the official site for Nick Bantock's famous series of Griffin and
Sabine books, which combined collage artworks and an imaginary correspondence
between soul-mates. |
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Joseph Cornell Small thumbnails link to large scans of the incredible surreal assemblages
of of this American master of the medium. |
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Cut and Paste This
is a very informative site on the history of photomontage. It includes sections
on the its use during the Victorian erea, the 1920s, the 1980's, and recent
times. Very well designed site. |
Claudine Helmuth Selected
artworks from this collage artist's extensive portfolio
Joe DiMaggio Some
very interesting computer generated collages by a California collage artist
with a famous name
Ann Baldwin Ann Baldwin's
mixed media art gallery and online classroom for collage artists, art students,
and lovers of painting. home.earthlink.net/%7Etranqbase/index.html Collages
by Robert Magginetti and other artists from around the world.
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Fractals, Consciousness Raising, and
Other Fun Stuff:
do-not-zzz A short
animation based on Zen meditation. Way cool.
Poem-a-Day Jae Malone updates her site frequently with new personal poems. She borrows
graphics from artists she finds on the web and has an extensive links page to
artist's she's used in the past (yep, I'm one of 'em!)
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General Artists
Galleries and Indexes:
Art Net: Buy and sell modern and contemporary art, fine prints and photographs. Each seller is registered and authorized by artnet, and every auctioned art work is evaluated by a team of artnet Online Auctions specialists.
World Wide Web Resources:
Search over 200,000 works by over 22,000 artists by medium, subject matter, price and theme.
Art in Context:
Provides public access to information concerning artists around the world. Member Metropolitan New York Library Council, Association of College and Research Libraries, ALA.
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Artist
Resources, Online Magazines, and Art Supplies:
Art Daily Daily
news features in the arts: museum and gallery news, artist features. Also
job opportunities and chat.
Juxtapoz
An online art magazine... haven't thoroughly researched it yet, but looks like
some interesting articles.
Raw Vision
This is my favorite online arts magazine. Preview articles on Outsider
art in "Back Issues".
Art Visionary
Magazine focuses on surreal and fantasy-based art. They have many links
to some incredible artists.
ArtMarketing.com A very comprehensive list of links to national art organizations. Includes:
ArtFBI, College Art Association, National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission
for the Arts, and more.
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Online Art Supplies:
The following suppliers have most of what any
painter will need. Also include drawing, graphics and other supplies:
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Art
Instruction:
Oil
Painting: Lessons and Demos About.com's links to some good sites on painting
demos. May be useful, especially for the unitiated artist..
The
Creative Journal Method, by Lucia Capacchione Ph.D. The site outlines
and illustrates the artist-psychologist's book, which focuses on journal-writing
and drawing as a personal growth and creativity tool.
Artist
Biographies Artist and teacher P. Roger Elliot
includes art and biographies of Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Goya, Matisse,
Gauguin, Seurat, Constable, Van Gogh, and Renoir. Also includes instruction
on creating acrylic paintings.
The Enchanted
Mind Creativity exercises: Puzzles, techniques, inspiration, science and
humor.
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Art
History Links:
General
Indexes / Archives
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The
Artchive
An excellent archive of famous historic and modern artists. This
is the best and most extensive site I have found for high quality scans.
Includes an easy to use search index. |
CGFA (Carol Gerten's Fine Art) is an extensive artist index where you
can search hundreds of artists from many countries and time periods. Well
organized and easy to use. Thumbnails allow you to have an idea what the image
looks like before you wait for the larger image to download.
WebMuseum
Focuses on paintings created between the Gothic to Modern periods. Some
essays accompany the images.
Wendy's
Women Artists in History This is a great site
to research practically any female artist. Large alphabetical index.
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Prehistoric
and Ancient Art
Lascaux: Images and essay on the famous Lascaux cave paintings from the book, The
Alpha and the Omega, by Jim A. Cornwell.
Willendorf
Goddess: Essay and photography about the Venus of Willendorf and the evolution
of the concept of the earth goddess.
Mysterious
Places: Stonehenge Discover Stonehenge and other "Mysterious Places".
National
Geographic's Egypt An excellent site which includes the original articles
published when Tut's tomb was discovered, film clips from the IMax movie, and
other cool Egyptian links.
PBS
Nova Online: Explore the Pyramids This site gives extensive information
about the pyramids and Old Kingdom rulers. Excellent pictures and layout.
MESOWEB: An exploration of Mesoamerican cultures
The
Olmec World History and art of the Olmec Civilization, rituals and rulership.
Tulane
Univ's Teotihuacan: Teotihuacan Pyramids and Art
G.B.
Online's MesoAmerica Mayan archaeology, essays and links.
Mysterious
Places:Chichen_Itza Chichen Itza pyramids, monuments, and history.
Perseus Digital Library: An extensive archive of over 30,000 images of Greek art and architecture. Includes
search engine and extensive collection of articles.
Roman Gods Everything you've ever wanted to know about Roman gods and goddesses
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Medieval
Links - catalogued by artists, civilization, period, clip art, manuscript
illumination, paintings, sculptures and tapestries.
Renaissance Art
Giotto's
Frescos - nice images of Giotto paintings within the Arena Chapel in Padua.
Northern
Renaissance Art Web - A good collection of links for exploring the Renaissance
of the North, indexed by artists' names.
Michelangelo
Buonarroti: The art, life, and thoughts of the great Michelangelo. Spans his whole creative career.
Discovery
and Reformation More of a history site than
an art site, it gives some interesting thoughts on the Reformation of the Catholic
Church and the influence of Northern Europe on the Renaissance.
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Baroque Art
CGFA's Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio images and Bio (Carol Gerton's Fine Art)
WebMuseum's
Caravaggio - short bio, thumbnails link to larger images.
WebMuseum's
Rembrandt - short bio and images of the famous Dutch Baroque painter's
works
CGFA's
Rembrandt - images and Biography (Carol Gerton's Fine Art)
Mark
Harden on Vermeer Images and written review by Mark Harden (from the Artchive)
CGFA'S
Vermeer - images and Bio (Carol Gerton Fine Art)
WebMuseum's
Vermeer - more on the Dutch Baroque painter
CGFA'S Velazquez - Diego Velazquez images and Bio (Carol Gerton Fine Art)
WebMuseum's
Velazquez - more on the Spanish Baroque painter
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19th Century:
The
Artchive's Goya - click image to enter virtual gallery of the Goya's (Spanish
Romantic artist) "Black Paintings"
Web
Museum's Henri Rousseau - Pre-Surreal art of Henri Rousseau (images and
short essay)
WebMuseum:
Impressionism - Short essay on the Impressionist movement, and links to
the works of Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Morisot, Degas, and Manet
WebMuseum's
Redon - Symbolist artworks of French artist Odilon Redon
Galerie
Degas - an extensive collection of paintings, pastels, and graphics by this
productive Impressionist.
WebMuseum's
Munch - Images and short bio on Edvard Munch, the Norwegian expressionist.
Vincent
Van Gogh Gallery - "The most thorough and comprehensive Van Gogh resource
on the World Wide Web". Use "search" to explore more than 3,040 pages and 2,790
graphics (Paintings, Sketches, Watercolours, Letters, and artworks inspired
by van Gogh)
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20th Century:
the-artists.org - An excellent site which allows you to search by name of 20th century artists
or by movement
WebMuseum:
20th Century Painting - Short essays and images (Fauvism,
Matisse, Expressionism, Artistic Emigres, Picasso and Cubism, The Age of Machinery,
Towards Abstraction, Paul Klee, Pure Abstraction, Art of the Fantastic, Pre-War
American Painting, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art)
Klimt
Museum - Gustave Klimt (1862-1918): biography, images, screen-savers. You
can even listen to his favorite music!
Georgia
O'Keefe - Images and essays on the most famous woman artist of the century (Early Years, O'Keefe and Stieglitz, "The Far Away")
Diego
Rivera - Biography, gallery and links about the great Mexican muralist.
Frida
Kahlo - Biography, essays, effect on contemporary arts and thought.
Even includes a flash movie about her.
African-Americans
in the Visual Arts - includes biographical information about the artists,
images only through links to other sites
20th
Century Architecture - A digital archive of the works of Frank Lloyd
Wright, LeCorbusier, I.M. Pei and more.
Guerrillagirls.com - Guerrilla Girls is a group of feminist activists/artists who fight for representation
of women in the arts
Judy
Chicago: Through the Flower -Images and info about her feminist works:Womanhouse,
The Dinner Party, Birth Project, Powerplay, and The Holocaust Project.
Jenny
Holtzer - Word Art displayed in public spaces, using media from lcd displays
to posters and stickers (applied to such urban elements as telephone booths
or parking meters)... "the texts function as comments on that environment
they fit into, stimulating awareness of our social conditioning as conveyed
by the very landscape in which we may be confronted by them".
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Surrealism (1920s-40s):
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Rene Magritte
Links to possibly hundreds of images by the great master of surrealism.
Artcyclopedia
on Magritte
more on Magritte and links to his works. |
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Salvador
Dali Museum -includes works from early, traditional, surrealist and
classical periods of the artist. Also articles on surrealist games, new
exhibitions, etc. |
The History
of Surrealism - Essays and links.
Female
Surrealist Artists. Information about Eilein Agar, Leonara Carrington, Leonor
Fini, Frida Kahlo, Dora Maar, Meret Oppenheim, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, Remedios
Varo, and others.
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