Art Links
I plan to test all of the links on this page soon. In the meantime, if you find a broken link that you'd like to report, please email me. 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.
Contemporary
Artists
Friends'
Sites
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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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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. Also, if interested in buying books from Barnes and Noble,
you might consider supporting her by ordering through her site! |
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Sabra
Booth
Another long-time friend and fellow Cranbrook alumni, Sabra creates
mixed media paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. |
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Jessica
Barnett-DeCuir
Jessica teaches drawing, design and painting classes at San Antonio
College. Her personal artworks range from moody abstracts to funky installation
art. Also check out some of her student works! |
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Brien Coleman: PhantImage
The mystical and surreal works of Brien Coleman offer an intricate
window into a flamboyant parallel universe where pictorial landscapes
emerge as if from a waking dream. |
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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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Other Artists of Imagination:
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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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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. |
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.
What
is Outsider Art? A definition of outsider art, and links to outsider artist's
pages.
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Photography
and Photo-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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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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Copy
Crime Collage Gallery Very humorous, weird, and amusing collages by
Texas iconoclast artist, Valerie Rich. |
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The
Sacred Imagination
Artist, Dana Reynolds creates collages which she calls Visual Prayers.
Says the artist, "A visual prayer is a collage made with prayerful
intention with an attitude of sacredness". She gives some information
about how to create your own visual prayers. |
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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. |
D.P. Ali D.P.
Ali creates digital images that go far beyond the usual appearance of digital
art. Borrowing from many sources, his works are sure to intrigue the viewer.
Claudine Helmuth Selected
artworks from this collage artist's extensive portfolio
PsychErotica This site
is really beautifully createdÉ more exotic than "erotic"É. (for art galleries,
click floral icon in lower left corner of the intro page)
Galerie Erotica This
site, created by a French artist, actually is pretty eroticÉ the collages are
composed of cut up images of women's unclothed bodies. If this idea offends
you, bypass itÉ but it is pretty interesting in the way the images are abstracted.
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.
Lunaea For collages by Lunaea
Weatherstone, click her "gallery" link http://www.danlevin.com/index.html Found
object assemblages by Dan LevinÉ pretty interesting! www.johnhertzberg.com/
Irregularly shaped collages of John Herzberg reveal interesting secrets
8325
Gallery Another photo-collage site. "To view Wortzel's work is to
feel the past through the eyes of a film noir personna sorting through stacks
of torn newspaper, trying to make some pattern, some sense, some beauty, some
picture."
Tranquility
Base Collage: a site dedicated to collage in all its forms and consists
of collages by Robert Magginetti and other collage artists. The goal of Tranquility
Base is to show the wide range of approaches to collage used by artists from
around the world.
Collage
Town: a celebration of both Collage and Photomontage, featuring the work
of Brian Robertson
Page Gibbons Wonderful
scraps make up the collages of this talented artist. Also features a page for
buying "collage kits", a paper sampler.
Fascinating
Folds Links to specialty papers, glues, books, etc.
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Fractals, Digital Graphics, Consciousness Raising, and
Just Plain Cool Stuff:
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Fractal
Domains Gallery
This is the most extensive collection I've found of fractal
images. Several artists contained. Also "Fractal of the Week"
archive. It's linked to "The Infinite Fractal Loop", so you
can wander to dozens of other fractal galleries if you've got the time
and inclination to explore. |
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Fractal
Journeys:
Contains some of the most beautiful images fractal images I've ever seen
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Sekino's
Fractal Gallery. Another site of fractels developed with Mandelbrot set.
Digital
Blasphemy Includes over 300 hi-res original 3d-rendered computer desktop
wallpapers, startup screens, screen savers, tutorials on making your own 3d
art, and links to some of the best computer art sites on the web.
Opussoup A small, but cool site which combines animation graphics with vintage photography.
do-not-zzz A short
animation based on Zen meditation. Way cool.
Electric
Mandalas Mandala Images by John Bennett. Also has very nice painting and
graphics galleries.
Corneal
Confections Very nice animated graphics by W.J.Baker. Especially check out
his mandala.
Essencia:
Mandalas and other images with interactive text (meditations on the Void, Cosmos,
Soul, Sanctuary, Essence, Consciousness, Spirit, Ideal, and Potential)
More
Mandalas A link page to "the best mandalas on the web". I've found
lots of good one's here.
Java
Poetry A java-based website that lets you create poems by arranging the
given words on the screen.
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:
Yahoo
Painter's Index Yahoo's long list of painters. Do a search to narrow the
selection, or just get lost browsing for a while.
West
End Fine Arts Gallery An online gallery of artists in Palm Beach Florida,
this is one of my favorite group sites. Especially see the works of Vicki
Cohen and Mimi Shapiro. This site is best viewed on Netscape.( It crashes
nearly every time I try to view on Internet Explorer)
NetDreams
Registry of Women Artists Its name refers to the surrealist Mexican artist,
Remidios Varo. This is an electronic registry of artwork by contemporary international
women artists.
Braden
Artlinks A very comprehensive site of art links. Includes:
Art Link Pages, Artist Pages, Masters, Museums, Galleries, Art Magazines,
Photography, Printmaking, and Web Graphics.
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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.
Leonardo
Online is a magazine devoted to science and technology's influence on contemporary
art (not to the old master specifically).
Texas Commission of
the Arts. Grant Applications for arts organizations and artists in
education.
Texas Fine Arts Asociation Austin based organization featuring contemporary arts in Texas and across the
United States. Membership benefits include exhibition opportunities, discounts
on art magazines, and group health insurance for 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.
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:
Artlex
Visual Arts Dictionary has definitions of more than 2,800 art terms, illustrations,
quotations, and links.
Art
Chalkboard A resource for artists and
art students that focus on the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading,
color and painting. They were compiled by Ralph Larmann, art faculty member
in the Southern Arkansas University Art Department.
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.
Kelly
Borsheim Arts This is the site of my friend
Kelly Borsheim - a sculptor, painter and candlestick maker! She gives
helpful advice on creating all three, as well as information about art resources
and sites for buying materials.
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.
Visual
Quotations Famous Authors' Quotations on Creativity, Knowing, Art and Design
The Enchanted
Mind Creativity exercises: Puzzles, techniques, inspiration, science and
humor.
Murli's
Creativity Page Links to websites designed to help boost creativity in many
fields.
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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.
Web
Gallery of Art is an overview of painters. Includes huge alphabetical
index.
Wendy's
Women Artists in History This is a great site
to research practically any female artist. Large alphabetical index.
The
National Museum of Women in the Arts. Includes some general notes on history
of arts as it has affected women artists, and a few select images of women artists
from Renaissance through late 20th century.
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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.
Tour Egypt Ministery
of Tourism in Egypt. This is a good site to look at if you want to research
specific rulers of Ancient Egypt.
King Akhenaten a good site for any information relating to Akhenaten and the Armana period.
Who
Killed Tut? This page goes into depth about theories surrounding the death
of Tutankhamen.
Beshay's
Egyptian Links: A wonderful page of web links to sites on Egyptian rulers
and treasures
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.
Virtual Palenque Information and photos of the Palenque Palace and Temple done in a "virtual
web" format.
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.
The
Ancient Greek World: Land and Archaeological Time Pictorials and Essays
on all Greek periods, daily life and beliefs
Greece Archive A pictorial archive of Greek art and architecture from the Univ of Colorado:
Roman
Art and Architecture... nice graphics from the Univ. of Colorado at Colorado
Springs.
RomeWeb:
Christians "Throwing Christians to the Lions: Fact and Legend"
a short essay on the Roman persecution
History_of_Rome a good source for research on all periods of Rome, essay by Julian Tam
Fall
of Rome a short essay on the causes of the famous fall by Luis Hernandez
Roman Gods Everything you've ever wanted to know about Roman gods and goddesses
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Medieval Art
Byzantine
Art and Architecture A nice page of images and essays on Byzantine
art and architecture.
Nixnet
Medieval - Well-catalogued links to over 500 sites on Medieval paintings,
sculpture, architecture, tapestries, and more.
Medieval
Links - another extensive links page on medieval art and culture
Gargoyles
Then and Now - Brief essays on Gargoyles
More Medieval
Links - catalogued by artists, civilization, period, clip art, manuscript
illumination, paintings, sculptures and tapestries.
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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.
Drawings
of Leonardo da Vinci. Images only (no essays). 39 thumbnails
link to larger graphics.
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
The
Dizzying Grandeur of Rococo - Well-organized articles include subjects:
Distinguishing between Baroque and Rococo, The Age of Rocaille, Bavaria, The
Fabulous 18th Century (artists and composers) and more.
Gallery
of the Rococo - A nice gallery of the Rococo style, represented by artists
from several countries.
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19th Century:
The
PreRaphaelite Passion - images and text related to PreRaphaelite use of
the themes of: Medieval and Arthurian Legends, The Glorification of Nature,
Images of Love, The Supernatural World, Daily Life, Mythology, and Victorian
Morality.
Bouguereau:
Simple Passion - though overly romantic and often trite, there is a definite
beauty and elegance to this NeoClassical/Romantic painter's works.
The
A rtchive'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)
Maxfield
Parish, Gallery of the great painter/illustrator's works, compiled by Brian
Yoder.
Hudson
River School -Essays and images from the first American school of landscape
painting active from 1825-1870
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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")
From
Gaud’ to Tˆpies: Catalan Masters of the 20th Century (includes Picasso,
Miro, Dali and many other Catalan artists)
Art
Online - Art museum, art timeline, art games, etc.
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
The
Art of John Biggers - Art of African American artist and educator, John
Biggers
PopArt - extensive list of Pop artists and images
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".
Sandy
Skogland -The contemporary photographer/ installation artist tackles issues
on teaching Contemporary Art.
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Surrealism (1920s-40s):
(many of the surrealist sites that were indexed here previously are now defunct
and I will look for more soon)
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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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