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This might be worth a look...lots of school art sites with virtual art
http://www.kids101-art.co.uk/
A not exhaustive web site list for art galleries......use as a start point
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
http://www.npg.org.uk
http://www.tate.org.uk/
http://www.ysp.co.uk
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk
http://www.yorkartgallery.org.uk
http://www.manchestergalleries.org/
http://www.whitechapel.org/
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/
http://www.bmag.org.uk/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/
further afield
http://www.guggenheim.org/
http://www.moma.org
This site has a database of 7,500 great artists and tells where their work can be
located. The database is catalogued in by: chronological order, Movement, medium,
subject, nationality, and alphabetical order.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
An adventure in Art that's interactive. You can download other adventures from the
Eduweb : Company.
http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html
This is an easily accessible site that shows biographies and samples of well known
artists' work.
http://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/8art.htm
Quite a nice looking web school web site with art gallery....
http://www.wearekingswood.co.uk/mediaLibrary.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/art/
50 Suggested Websites for Art
1. Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=e...
Discover the Louvre
2. Pompidou Centre
http://www.cnacgp.fr/Pompidou/Accueil.nsf/Document/HomePa...
This site showcases some of the magnificent pieces of art at the Centre national d'art
et de culture Georges Pompidou. Its aim is to create an original cultural institution in
the heart of Paris completely focused on modern and contemporary creation.
4. Guggenheim Collection
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artists.html
View the works of famous artists as well as read about them in their biographies.
Institutions/Associations
Games
24. Treacletart
http://www.treacletart.net
Treacletart is an online digital art competition for schools, offering digital cameras as
prizes. Pupils can download a starter image and creatively alter it using any type of
graphics software. Entries are displayed in the gallery on the website.
Resources
28. DareArts
http://www.darearts.com/1_about-darearts.shtml
http://www.darearts.com/1_kids-zone-darearts.shtml - Kidzone
Dare Arts stands for Discipline, Action, and Responsibility in Education.
At a time when juvenile social problems have increased, school budget cuts have
resulted in decreased arts education. DareArts Foundation helps fill this gap through
an innovative 5-year course of study to complement the school system.
30. ArtisanCam
http://www.artisancamnorth.org.uk/kidzone/ - kidzone
http://www.artisancamnorth.org.uk/
You can watch artists live from their studios or working on location as they go about
their business. Once live watching is finished, their work is captured in a time-lapse
video, which summarises their activities.
31. Portrait Detectives
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/portraits/index.ht...
Find out how to interpret clues in portraits to find out who people are, when and how
they lived, and even what they thought about themselves.
36. Impressionism
http://www.impressionism.org/
A very interesting site if you want to find out about Impressionist painters and their
paintings. Teachers can download or view online excellent lessons for primary aged
children, which introduce the major themes of impressionism.
40. Mondrimat
http://www.stephen.com/mondrimat/
You can experiment here with space and colour in accordance with the theories of Piet
Mondrian.
44. Surrealism
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Surrealism/index.htm...
Unnecessarily image intensive, but this site does have interesting information on
selected Surrealists artists. They are RenT Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Giorgio de Chirico,
Salvador Dali and Pierre Roy.
Search Engines
45. Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
This site’s mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-
quality fine art on the Internet. You can access the comprehensive index of every artist
represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.
Examination Boards
48. OCR
http://www.ocr.org.uk/OCR/WebSite/docroot/index.jsp
OCR is responsible to the Government as one of the UK's leading awarding bodies
providing qualifications to students at school, college, in work or through part-time
learning programmes. This website allows both teachers and candidates access to their
course information.
49. AQA
http://www.aqa.org.uk/
AQA is one of the leading examination boards. This website provides information on
all the courses AQA offer. Within their main site there is e-AQA website, which is the
part for the centres (schools and colleges). It gives authorised staff direct access to
information related to their centre. It is designed to provide a flexible resource that
will make it easier for centre’s to communicate with AQA.
50. Edexcel
http://www.edexcel.org.uk/home/
Edexcel website provides comprehensive information about all their qualifications.
There is an Ask Edexcel part on the site where teachers, students or parents can
submit a question and received an answer from the customer service team.