Art on the Web

Can computer generated images be more aesthetically appealing than a live artist's compositions?

The artwork at the left was created by Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), a leader of an art movement fostered by the De stijl magazine.

The “Neo-plastic” art piece to the right was generated by a Java applet randomizer code adapted from Richie Bielak.

Click on the image to create another. It may take several seconds for the image to appear.

Thayer Watkins took this further with a Mondrian Abstract overlay over an Assyrian bas-relief

Museums Geographically

Museums in the United States, listed geographically

Museums of the world, listed geographically

Index of website names using the .museum domain hierarchy organized by the
International Council of Museums

• U.S. Department of State Cultural Heritage Office
• Interpol Cultural Property Program
• Interpol's Stolen Works of Art CD-ROM
• Museum Security Network
• Object ID
• UNESCO Convention for Cultural Property Protection
• International Council of Museums
• Los Angeles Police Department Art Theft Detail
• FBI National Stolen Art File (NSAF) available from FBI offices

Topical Museums

“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth” —Pablo Picasso

• CGFA lists art by artist and period
• Rick's Art
• Visit your favorite roller coasters and the latest technology.
• LittleMenStudio has colorful child-like cartoony icons, picture fonts ($45 ea.) .
• Yahoo's list of web museums
• JFK Health World children's health education museum and learning center.

• Artists share their works on Art.Net.
• World Wide Arts Resources, "the largest gateway to the arts on the internet."
• AFI on-line festival
• There's art everywhere, if you just know where to look. Notice the graffiti in our urban landscape.
• Project Galileo: Bringing Jupiter to Earth Check out the extensive collection of just-released images and data from Jupiter, read a brief introduction to the mission, and join the excitement as they take you through Galileo's exploration of our solar system's largest planet. [THWSO]
• ArtLoop claims to have a database of information on over 8,000 artists.
• EDSITEment aims to bring online educational resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
• international magazine Art + Auction
• UK-based Fine Art Fund was launched April 2003 by former Christie's Deputy Managing Director Philip Hoffman. The fund aims to raise $350 million to buy and hold top quality art for 10 years.
• Grove Art Online
• Web Gallery of Art

Music from Star Trek movie when the crew look in wonderment as they walk around the “VGER” satellite on display. The

Mei Moses Fine Art Index — created by NYU professors Jianping Mei and Michael Moses to track sale prices of paintings, drawings and sculpture auctioned in New York since 1875 — report that since 1950, on a compound annual basis, art has returned 11.5 percent to 12.5 percent, which is similar in performance to the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks.

During lengthy armed conflicts in the last century, art indexes outperformed major stock indexes.

Online database of art sold at auction

• ArtNet.com
• AskArt
• Artprice

Artist Media

• photography,
• drawing,
• painting,
• watercolor,
• sculpture,
• woodworking
• glassblowing

Artist Showcases

• Registry of American Fine Artists
• 3D art for viewing with red/green 3D glasses.

• Safe Shopping Network for Art

  
  Get this print framed for your wall!

  Les Patineurs (The Skaters) by Henri Matisse

Artist Jokes

After much careful research, it has been discovered that the artist Vincent Van Gogh had many relatives.
• His dizzy aunt......................................Verti Gogh
• The brother who ate prunes..........................Gotta Gogh
• The constipated uncle...............................Cant Gogh
• The brother who worked at a convenience store.......Stopn Gogh
• The grandfather from Yugoslavia.....................U Gogh
• The brother who bleached his clothes white..........Hue Gogh
• The cousin from Illinois............................Chica Gogh
• His magician uncle.............................Wherediddy Gogh
• His Mexican cousin..................................Amee Gogh
• The Mexican cousin's American half brother..........Grin Gogh
• The ballroom dancing aunt...........................Tan Gogh
• A sister who loved disco............................Go Gogh
• The nephew who drove a stage coach ...............Wellsfar Gogh
• The bird lover uncle................................Flamin Gogh
• His nephew psychoanalyst............................E Gogh
• The fruit loving cousin.............................Man Gogh
• An aunt who taught positive thinking................Wayto Gogh
• The little bouncy nephew............................Poe Gogh
• And his niece who travels the country in a mootorhome....Winnie Bay Gogh