South Seattle Community College Library

"Library Resources for the Arts"

February 26, 2003 2p.m. Library 105

Reference Librarian Patricia Naylor, Instructor

 

Web Resources

 

Fine Art

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Painting/Artists/Masters/

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Sculptors/Masters/

http://artchive.com/ftp_site.htm--Gallery of biographies, and web images: Cezanne, Dali, Delacroix, Donatello, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Pollock, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Warhol. Scroll down to the end of each page after clicking on an artist at the left!

 

Painters

http://www.e-mpressionism.net/cezanne/cezanne_en.html--Paul Cezanne’s images.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck/arnolfini/--Commentary and images of Jan Van Eyck’s works.

http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/lempicka/--Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka’s polished images of the jazz age.

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Pablo.html--Picasso images.

http://www.kaliweb.com/jacksonpollock/art.htm--Jackson Pollock’s work, an innovative American painter. Click on the thumbnails for larger images.

http://www.renoir.org.yu/gallery.asp--Beautiful gallery of Renoir’s work. It takes forever to load, but it is truly worth it!

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rousseau/--Henri Rousseau’s work. Scroll down the page for images.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rubens/--Peter Paul Ruben’s work.

http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/paintings.aspx--John William Waterhouse’s Pre-Raphaelite works.

 

Photography

http://dir.yahoo.com/arts/visual_arts/photography/photographers/masters/

http://photography.about.com/cs/thephotogreats/

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/--Comprehensive online gallery of photography’s greats.

http://www.anseladams.com/--Not only does this give us great landscape photos from Ansel Adams, but there are also a variety of different photography links, including workshops, posters, and other commercial products for the Ansel Adams fan.

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/C/cameron/cameron.html--Offers rare photographs from the nineteenth century portrait photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Click on each thumbnail for a great upright image.

http://www.afterimagegallery.com/connor.htm--A great gallery of Linda Connor’s work. Conner is well noted for her photographs from around the world, and of light and the universe. Double click on these thumbnail images for larger images.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fachap04.html--Walker Evans’ photographs of New York City streets from the 1930’s.

http://www.ocaiw.com/mapple.htm--Scroll down the page for a large assortment of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photos, a controversial photographer of the twentieth century.

http://www.gregkucera.com/owens.htm--Bill Owens’ color and black and white photography of 1970’s suburbia. Great for getting an idea of what we looked like, cars we drove and the country’s pastimes.

http://www.warhols.com/--Portfolio of the pop culture photographer Andy Warhol.

 

Music

http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Classical/Composers/

http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/Composers/

http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Jazz/Composers/

http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Genres/Jazz/

http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Genres/--Find links on your favorite kind of music. Carribean, Classical, Country, Electronic, Industrial, Jazz, New Age, Rap.

http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/world.html--University of Washington Music Library’s webpage about World Music. Great if you’re doing a paper on the music of Tibetan Buddhism or Egyptian Music.

http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/--Dr. Estrella’s Incredibly abridged Dictionary of Composers. Who the heck is Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov? One of Russia’s most famous composers! Find out which classical composer has got the stuff here at this website. Scroll down the page for biographical articles.

http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20010507.html--Here is a great letter to the editor, which contains hyperlinks on each jazz musician’s name to a directory of websites about that person. Find out about Tommy Dorsey, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Sarah Vaughan.

http://www.metalbite.com/videos.asp Rare metal videos.

http://www.malevolent.8k.com/videos.htm Even more metal videos!

 

Drawing

http://drawsketch.about.com/ Draw anything from dragons to people!

http://www2.evansville.edu/drawinglab/ Teaches perspective, construction, shading and texture.

http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/ How to draw Manga!

http://www.garyharbo.com/activity.html Draw cartoon characters.

 

Back to Home Page