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Art history now and then.


Back when I was in college (the first time), art history was taught as art in the dark. We looked at slides and memorized dates and artists' names. Most of the artwork represented male artists from the Western World and few connections were made to culture and history. Thankfully thank·ful  
adj.
1. Aware and appreciative of a benefit; grateful.

2. Expressive of gratitude: a thankful smile.
, how times have changed! With the increasing presence of museum collections online, your students now can easily access countless images from cultures and times around the world. Your students can investigate artworks in great detail, research both historical and contemporary artists and art movements
''See Art periods for a chronological list.


This is a list of art movements. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies, evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related.
, create timelines and chronologies, and make cross-cultural comparisons.

For Teachers www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

The best art timeline online is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History. It is a chronological chron·o·log·i·cal   also chron·o·log·ic
adj.
1. Arranged in order of time of occurrence.

2. Relating to or in accordance with chronology.
, geographical, and thematic the·mat·ic  
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or being a theme: a scene of thematic importance.

2.
 exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's vast collection. Each timeline page includes images of representative art from the museum's collection, a chart of time periods, a map of the region, an overview, and a list of key events. Users can explore through an index or specific topics or search the entire timeline.

www.historymole.com

At History Through Timelines, you can explore historical timelines for the last two thousand years, search by topic or year, and create your own timeline using the database.

webexhibits.org/pigments

Pigments through the Ages is a web exhibit that offers insights into the history of colors not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed.

See also: Color
 and pigments.

arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html

This great resource, Art Images for College Teaching, is a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive.

Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law.
 project by art historian and curator Allan T. Kohl. It is intended to make images of art and architectural works available in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and noncommercial in nature.

www.pbs.org/art21

For contemporary art, Art:21--Art in the Twenty-First Century is a fantastic site that correlates with an eight-part television series broadcast by PBS. Online features include a twenty-seven-lesson library, and numerous other components.

www.dam.org/index.htm

The Digital Art Museum is another remarkable contemporary site. Its goal is to become the world's leading online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art. The section on artists is arranged chronologically chron·o·log·i·cal   also chron·o·log·ic
adj.
1. Arranged in order of time of occurrence.

2. Relating to or in accordance with chronology.
 and there is an interesting timeline of digital art.

www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

History timelines offer great opportunities to find connections between the arts and other disciplines. This attractive site has a shortcut (1) In Windows, a shortcut is an icon that points to a program or data file. Shortcuts can be placed on the desktop or stored in other folders, and double clicking a shortcut is the same as double clicking the original file.  to a helpful timeline of artists and a photo gallery of paintings from the Renaissance to modern times.

For Students

Directions: Visit the websites listed below and answer the questions, where appropriate, on a separate piece of paper.

www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0781458.html

Read the list of the 100 most significant events of the last thousand years. How many of them are works of art or architecture? What are they? Which artwork is listed by name? Who is the artist?

www.msquiz.com/ArtHistory

Take the art history quiz and check out the last fifteen challengers.

www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html

Click on "pottery" at this site and read the text and look at the pottery. How old is the oldest pot ever dated? Where was the pottery wheel invented? Why do you think even useful pottery was sometimes decorated dec·o·rate  
tr.v. dec·o·rat·ed, dec·o·rat·ing, dec·o·rates
1. To furnish, provide, or adorn with something ornamental; embellish.

2.
?

www.scribbleskidsart.com/generic101.html

What is the oldest art on this timeline? What is the most recent?

sanford-artedventures.com/study/timeline.html

Click on "cave paintings Cave or Rock Paintings are paintings on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times. The earliest known rock paintings are dated to the Upper Paleolithic, 40,000 years ago, while the earliest European cave paintings date to 32,000 years ago. " and then "Pompeii wall art." How are they similar? How are they different? What kind of wall art do you see in our time?

www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/treasure_hunt.html

Take the art treasure hunt at this site. Name one fact you learned about Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (də vĭn`chē, Ital. lāōnär`dō dä vēn`chē), 1452–1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, b. near Vinci, a hill village in Tuscany. . For what purpose was the Eiffel Tower Eiffel Tower, structure designed by A. G. Eiffel and erected in the Champ-de-Mars for the Paris exposition of 1889. The tower is 984 ft (300 m) high and consists of an iron framework supported on four masonry piers, from which rise four columns uniting to form one  created? Which artist mentioned is still living?
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Title Annotation:ArtEd Online
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