LibGuides: Arts and Wellness in the Elementary Classroom: Art History

Art History

Another good place to start familiarizing yourself with an art history topic are online reference sources.

ARTStor is a a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images.

CAMIO (OCLC) is a database of high quality art images from acround the worls.

Oxford Art Online, our subscription resource mentioned above, is one (the best) general reference source, and here are a few others to get you started. These can all be found online for free:

The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
A timeline of art history from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (freely available online to all).
Especially for contemporary art: Artsy
Artsy is an online platform for discovering, learning about, and collecting art. The growing collection offers information on 140,000+ artworks by 25,000+ artists from art fairs, galleries, museums, and art institutions (who pay Artsy for the exposure, so it is a commercial site, but it offers lots of good information, particularly on contemporary art, freely available online to all).
Khan Academy's SmARThistory
A multimedia art history resource with descriptions of various artists and art movements throughout art history, particularly useful for beginners coming to an art history topic (freely available online to all).

Websites on Art Education

The following websites provide detailed information about Art Education and Resources.

National Art Education Association
This dynamic community of practice is where visual arts teachers, scholars, researchers and professors, students, administrators, and art museum educators, and artists come together around a shared belief in the power of the arts in developing human potential.
Arts Education Partnership
As you will discover, AEP serves as a national hub for critical information and communication about current and emerging arts education policies, issues, and activities at the national, state, and local levels. And high quality research serves as a hallmark of our work because evidence in action is power.
ArtTeacherEDU.org
A resource for aspiring teachers interested in bringing the joy of artistic expression to young learners. Includes guides for each state that describe what it takes to become a licensed educator with the credentials necessary to teach art at the primary, middle and secondary levels.
Art History Resources on the Web
Covering art from all continents and throughout history, this impressive site gathers artistic movements and the museums that specialize in them into one handy resource.
ArtCyclopedia
Need a little background on an artist, art piece, or artistic movement? ArtCyclopedia is your virtual art encyclopedia when you just don't know where to start.
Google Art Project
Using Google's mapping technology, you can explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.
Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages
A truly comprehensive list of links to Art History research, resources and Art Schools.
Smarthistory
An extensive online Art History from Khan Academy that explores art from Prehistoric times to Contemporary art movements. Contains in-depth analysis as well as useful syllabi and videos for Art History teachers.
Metropolitan Museum Of Art
This museum offers more than 375,000 of its images for unrestricted use. This public domain collection can be used, remixed or shared without restriction.

Picture Books

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