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  The Arts

General Art Information
http://artcyclopedia.com/index.html - Great art online, from over 8,000 famous painters, sculptors, and photographers, at art museum sites & image archives worldwide, has a search feature
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html - art history resources on the web
http://www.artlex.com *- Art dictionary with 3,600 terms used in discussing art/visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.
http://www.nga.gov/collection/index.shtm - National Gallery of Art, collection includes: painting, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, decorative arts, architecture, and in-depth studies.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm - National Gallery of Art, NGA kids interactive art
http://www.kinderart.com - Over 1000 art lesson plans, projects, articles, and even coloring pages
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/theme/finearts01.htm - Fine Arts Thematic Unit Online sponsored by Scholastic.  Give students an overview of fine arts with Internet-based mini-lessons from Instructor magazine.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/Jan04_quiltmath.htm - Make math connections colorful, fun, and inviting to students with a unique unit on the geometry of quilting.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/Jan04_tarbeach.htm - Share the artist's wonderful story quilt Tar Beach, then invite your students to create their own autobiographical squares.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/history_of_jazz.htm - Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center Wynton Marsalis invites you to take a tour of jazz - see the people, read about the events, and listen to the music.
Art Games
http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm - National Gallery of Art, NGA kids interactive art
http://www.albrightknox.org/artgames/index_launched.html - Educational and interactive website for children to create art and play games online while learning about painting and sculpture at the Albright Knox Art Gallery.
http://www.kidsart.com/games.html - KidsArt,   Art Games to entertain you include Crazy Art Lesson Mad Lib and the Folk Art USA Map with free folk art lessons to print and make.

Hieroglyphics
http://greatscott.com/hiero/
http://www.eyelid.co.uk/hiero1.htm
http://www.egyptartsite.com/

Cave Art
http://vedda.org/cave_drawings.htm - Wanniyala-Aetto cave art
http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/wisconsin/ - Wisconsin cave rock art
http://www.dltk-kids.com/world/australia/handart.htm - cave drawing activity
http://www.dltk-kids.com/world/australia/sand_paper_art.htm - sandpaper art- cave drawing

Pictographs
http://www.petroglyphs.us/ - explains (rock art) petroglyphs, pictographs, and intaglios

Impressionist Art - The principal French Impressionist painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Afred Sisley, Berthe Mosirot, Armand Guillaumin, Frederic Bazille, Edgar Degas and Paul Cezanne.
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/Impress.html
http://giverny.org/museums/american/kids/
http://www.impressionistartprints.com/impressionism.htm
http://www.artchive.com/74nadar.htm - The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874
http://www.uncg.edu/rom/courses/common/impressionism.htm - (What is Impressionism), unable to link to artists
Claude Monet - http://www.artelino.com/articles/claude_monet.asp - http://giverny.org/monet/welcome.htm
Mary Cassatt - http://www.artelino.com/articles/mary_cassatt.asp   (American woman artist)
Auguste Renoir - http://www.artelino.com/articles/auguste_renoir.asp

Native American Art
http://www.artnatam.com/links.html#nat-art - Lots of links
http://net.indra.com/~dheyser/rockart.html - Southwestern US Rock Art gallery
http://medicinemangallery.com/
http://www.american-indian-art.com/
http://www.native-languages.org/art.htm *-list of American Indian artists online, contains pictures
http://www.ewebtribe.com/NACulture/-Native American Culture, many annotated links such as: art, artists, crafts, etc...

Primitive Art
http://www.homespun-peddler.com/h-prim01.htm - primitive folk art
http://www.kinderart.com/folkart/ - articles, projects, coloring pages, and more
http://www.artnet.com/galleries/Home.asp?gid=117&rta=http://www.artnet.com - artist Joan Barist

Renaissance
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/renm/hd_renm.htm - Music
http://artcyclopedia.com/history/early-renaissance.html - Early Renaissance Art & Artists, such as Donatello & Pietro Cavallini
http://artcyclopedia.com/history/high-renaissance.html - High Renaissance Art & Artists, such as Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Leonardo da Vinci

Medieval & Gothic
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/art/ - Medieval art
http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menuglossary/INDEX.HTM - glossary of Medieval art and architecture
http://www.newyorkcarver.com/photogal.htm - Medieval stone pictures
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/medieval/echart.html - Early Christian medieval art
http://www.historictile.com/msmpg.html - Museum of Medieval tiles
http://artcyclopedia.com/history/gothic.html - Gothic art and artists
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/gothic_arch.html - Gothic architecture
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp./org/orion/eng/hst/gothic.html - history of Gothic architecture

Modern & Contemporary Art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_contemporary_artists - contemporary artists
http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Modern/
http://arthistory.about.com/library/outlines/blmodern.htm

Photography
http://www.retygallery.com/gallery.html - Fine Arts Prints Gallery
http://www.onlinephotography.com/ - Journal of Fine Art Photography, showcasing the finest contemporary photographers
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/ - Processes, styles and movements in photography