Online encyclopedias, dictionaries, references. Academic and commercial arts and general references |
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Art Flashcards
From the "Flashcard Exchange" community shared resources site. Survey of Art, history, aesthetics, connections to other disciplines. |
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The ArtsLex Dictionary
Maintained as a labor of love by Michael Delahunt (a high school visual arts teacher) since 1994, ArtLex contains more than 3,400 articles and 40,000 links covering artists, art history , art criticism, and art technique. |
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Artcyclopedia
Fine art search engine. Find "museum-quality" art from museum sites and other collections around the Internet. Explore 125,000 Great Works of Art,
guide to museums, artists, art movements. |
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Art Subject Portal
Nicely organized list from the University of Cleveland Library |
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Symbols Encyclopedia
Searchable database containing more than 2,500 Western signs and symbols, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. A free trial download is also available at the site. |
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Strange and Unusual Dictionaries
Includes a dictionary of one letter words, all consonant words and all vowel words. Fun presentation. This idea could be adapted for a school project. |
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Color Scheme
Created primarily for web designers (it generates hex codes for each color), this site also features previews of how color choices might appear to people with various forms of color-blindness. This is useful to artists and designers and a facinating |
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Massachusetts College of Art Library
Search page for the Morton R. Godine Library. 12th Floor Tower Building | 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 | TEL 617-879-7150 | FAX 617-879-7110 |
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Art News Online
Website for the magazine. Excerpts and some full-text articles available online. |
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The Educators Reference Desk
Resource Gudes, lesson plans, question archives and the ERIC databse. |
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The Art Millennium
1,000 years of art. An Art Encyclopedia containing more than 15,000 pictures and overviews of about 1,000 artists. Organized into artists, styles, 20th century, explorations, collections and a dictionary. |
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Choose search words and the site will provide you with a definition and related, or alternative, art terms for the concept you are interested in. From the Getty. (Recently improved) |
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Web Links for Art Ed