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General Visual Reference web sites
About.com main index
http://home.about.com/index.htm
Hundreds of especially dedicated sites, each one covering a different topic, with a moderator. Particularly interesting is
the Art/Humanities section. Some of the most useful and interesting links are displayed below.
General Art, History and Photography Mark Harden's "Artchive"
http://www.artchive.com/
Enormous site with links to every single artistic style or artist
imaginable. Many of the links take to large sized images. Good for artistic and historic reference alike. Click on the artchive button for a huge list, or see the galleries and art links.
WebMuseum Project
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
A webnetwork with mirrored sites all over the world, this museum has special exhibits that change from time to time and also general exhibits with famous paintings. AllPosters.com
http://allposters.com/
Commercial site selling posters in a variety of different categories: from fine arts, vintage, movies, music, photography. Each subject contains tons of different
subjects, with good sized illustrations. Art.com
http://www.art.com/
Commercial web site that sells prints, photography, fine arts. Tons of imagery good for reference. Visual materials are
available under different subject, making it easy to find specific subjects.Artlex: Art Dictionary
http://www.artlex.com/
Site for for artists, students and educators in art production,
criticism, history, aesthetics, and education. Contains enormous list of terms, each one with links to imagery and examples. ArtModes.com
http://www.artmodes.com/
Commercial website selling posters, with major contemporary
artists and photographers. Has good sized images. About.com's Photography site
http://photography.about.com/arts/photography/mbody.htm
Links to sites of great photographers, photo magazines, nude photography, panoramas, portraits, documentary photography, travel and sports photography, fashion, etc. Decorative Arts at About.com
http://decorativearts.about.com/
Informative site with links to sites covering decorative arts, applied arts (furniture, jewelry, glass objects, "objets d'art", etc. ) General purpose illustrators Artville search engine
http://www.artville.com/servlet/ImageSearchStart
Artville is a commercial site selling illustration collections of various illustrators. Search per CD title or subject.Birch Design Studios
http://www.birchdesign.com/
Commercial site distributing cartoony illustrations from various artists. Laughing-stock Illustration
http://www.laughing-stock.com/
Commercial site distributing humorous and funny illustrations
from various artists. Illustration Works
http://www.halcyon.com/artstock/
Large commercial site distributing works of various illustrators. Scroll down and click on "Artists" to see a complete list of all artist's works. Images.com
http://www.images.com/
Large commercial site distributing works of various illustrators. Search by keyword or by artist. Illo.com
http://www.illo.com/
Commercial site with illustrations of various artists, mostly in
cartoony style. History
Art History at About.com
http://arthistory.about.com/arts/arthistory/
Informative site with links to different art history periods, including ancient, classic, renaissance, etc.Ancient/Classical History at About.com
http://ancienthistory.about.com/
Informative site with links to other sites with images on the ancient and classical world. Archeology at About.com
http://archaeology.about.com/science/archaeology/mbody.h tm
Informative site with links to other sites with images of artifacts, archeological digs and cities of the ancient world. (click on Artifacts and Ancient Civ). Medieval History at About.com
http://historymedren.about.com/homework/historymedren/mb ody.htm
Informative site with links to site covering topics of Medieval life. Particularly interesting is the list of "castle" sites... Biology, Nature and Organic material NatureExplorer.com
http://www.natureexplorer.com/
Large reference site with very good pictures on various nature-related subjects: animals, birds, prehistoric animals, rain forests, deserts, reptiles.Karl Blossfeldt's work http://www.masters-of-photography.com/B/blossfeldt/blossf eldt.html
and
http://www.artphiles.com/photophiles/KB.html
and
http://www.crosswinds.net/~pyxxie/
This incredible photographer has taken pictures of nature and real life that look more like they were extracted from some kind of weird scifi scene. Ernst Haeckel
http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/radiolarie n/index.html
and
http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/kunstfor men/natur.html
This fabulous author and scientist has created some incredible illustrations of micro-organisms and plants that look out of this world.
Insects/Spiders at About.com
http://insects.about.com/
Informative site on insects and other creepy crawlers. Most sites have photos, but the Photo Gallery has the most amount of interesting photos.
Biology at About.com
http://botany.about.com/
Informative site with links to sites on various subjects of biology. Particularly inspiring are the links to Marine Biology and Clip Art/Software. Phototake.com
http://www.phototakeusa.com/
Commercial site distributing medical, health related and microscopy imagery. Requires sign in to view images.
Cartoon and Children's illustration Comic Books at About.com
http://comicbooks.about.com/hobbies/comicbooks/msub17.ht m
Informative site with links to site related to all kinds of comic book artists and galleries. Brighton Illustrators Group - Children's Illustration
http://www.illustrator.org.uk/big/children.htm
Various artist's illustration for children. Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
http://www.scbwi.org/member.htm
Large list of artists and writers dedicated to creating
illustration for children's books. Books for Kids at About.com
http://kidsbooks.about.com/kids/kidsbooks/cs/illustrators/ind ex.htm
Informative site with links to sites about children's book. List of artists that specialize in creating children's books illustrations. |
