Art and Music Sites

The Artist's Toolkit

Another site from ArtsConnectEd and it's a good one. Each section (Line, Color, Space, Shape, Balance, Movement/Rhythm) allows students to watch animated demonstrations, view examples, and create their own. Requires Flash

Discovery School's Clip Art Gallery

Add graphics to projects for in-classroom use or as handouts. Choose from hundreds of original clip art pieces including animations. Use clip art for homework assignments, reports, school Web sites, and research papers.

Pics4Learning

Students, teachers, and amateur photographers have donated the thousands of images that make up this site. These images may be used for print, multimedia, and video projects.

Artists

Diego Rivera Virtual Museum

The Website highlights the beauty and passion of noted Mexican muralist and activist Diego Rivera. It includes a short biography, many artworks, a tour of a Live 3D gallery, his writings, and links to other Mexican art sites. Available in English and Spanish.

Exploring Leonardo

This excellent Museum of Science site offers resources for learning about Leonardo da Vinci. Explore this site and learn about this fascinating scientist, inventor, and artist.

Lesson Plans

ArtsEdge

ArtsEdge aims to bring together and organize the best of ideas, information, and resources from the arts and from education. The site includes a "Curriculum Studio", which is a collection of innovative, arts-based instructional strategies and resources that support national education goals. Try Subject Area Resources for units, lesson plans, ideas, and resources for classroom teaching. Long download time for the 1st page graphic unless text only is chosen.

ArtsEdNet: The Getty Center for Education in the Arts

This outstanding Web site offers state-of-the-art arts information: from background knowledge for instructors using a discipline-based arts education approach, to some of the few truly excellent online activities for students, to an elegant presentation of artistic images. Lesson plans are grouped by age level.

EDSITEment

This site includes online learning guides and a hotlist of links to top humanities sites. The learning guides include lesson plans in Art and culture, English and language arts, history and social studies, and foreign languages.

Eyes on Art

Starts by introducing beginning students of art, art history, humanities, and critical thinking to the developed skill of "learning to look" artistically. The site includes seven activities designed to build skill until learners can insightfully analyze any painting. (If you have trouble loading the site, stop at .com and choose wired, then choose art.

Haring Kids

Keith Haring's site bringing together books and the arts with fun and games promote literacy for kids 14 and younger.

Art Museums

Art Museums

Part of the Virtual Library: This is an alphabetical listing of art museums on the Web. The list also includes museums of all types.

The Frick Collection

Listed as the best art museum site for 1999, this site offers a 360-degree virtual tour of its eclectic holdings, and a searchable art reference library.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is one of the largest and finest art museums in the world. The collections on view at any time span 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present. The site is designed to give an overview of the collections currently on display in the museum's galleries.

The Thinker

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have eveloped an image database containing over 50% of their collections. Committed to posting 100% of their combined artsworks, the search engine provides access to over 70,000 images. A history link is also included. Look through a growing list of exhibits such as Beat Culture and the New America.

WebMuseum

A good first stop on an online art tour, this site offers online exhibitions. A famous painting exhibition includes an artist index, glossary, themes index, short biographies of the artist, and summaries of the works. Themes are divided by historical dates and by types of 20th century art. There is also a special exhibit of Medieval art. Click on the thumbnail paintings to enlarge them, but be prepared for long download times.

Site Lists

Absolutely Art

A comprehensive resource list with over 3,000 categories. Main categories include Artist Index, Galleries, Museums, Exhibitions, Commercial Arts, Arts Publications, Art Schools, Film, Literature, Theatre, Dance, Crafts, and more.

Music

The Aria Database

A collection of information about opera and operatic arias. It also includes the complete collections of Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, and Puccini and partial collection of over 50 other composers.

Computer Songs and Poems

(Song and poem parodies with computer related subjects) . Featuring such lines as "Bye,bye to my Apple II pie" and "When I was a lad I served a tern, As office boy in a computer firm" This site has hundreds of paradies. Nothing is sacred - among the original sources are Christmas, Beatles, and Monty Python songs, and the works of Chaucer, Milne, and Seuss.

History in Song

This site offrs a nice collection of songs that reflect key periods in U.S. History. Organized according to the historical period, mostly 20th century. Includes lyrics and recordings for many of the songs.

Lyrics World

Find the lyrics to many popular songs here. It contains lyrics for songs found in Top 40 Hits of 1930-1999, the #1 songs of 1930-1999, Top Singles by Decade and Artist Collections, plus many songs that aren't found easily.

Music Cornucopia

Covers reading music, instruments, and musical genres. Listen to music clips from different eras.

Popular Songs From American History

A link filled with music and lyrics of songs beginning with the 17th century.