LibGuides: Art, Visual, or Fine Art: Web Resources for Visual Arts

Overview Resources

The Art Career Project -- Art as a Career
Career information on various art-related fields, such as animator, video game designer, architect, etc.
ART Resource
Provides over a million images from artists with usage allowed if you submit an invoice.
The ArtStory.org
Educational non-profit organization with information on Artists, Movements, etc. with a timeline.
CAA Best Practices on the Fair Use of Images
College Art Assoc. (CAA) guidelines.
Salt Lake County Arts and Culture: Learn About Us
Timeline of Art (with essays, etc.) from the MET
Heilbrunn Chronologies - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Utah Division of Arts and Museums -- About

Mike Caulfield's SIFT. The 4 Moves to evaluate Website information.

Art Deadlines List ... Opportunities for Competitions, etc.
Lists deadlines for various competitions or opportunities. Need to login to see details.
Artists of Utah: 15 Bytes magazine
Since 2001
Lines and Colors
"Lines and Colors is a blog about painting, drawing, sketching, illustration, comics, cartoons, webcomics, art history, concept art, gallery art, digital art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, … "
Pace Gallery Artists -- index goes to images
Pigments by Color with their science
Pigments Through the Ages
Colors of Art: what was historically used for pigments
Principles of Design handout from the Getty
Handout for Teachers in the Education area at the Getty in California. Principles like balance, pattern, etc.
Salt Lake Area Art Venues
from 15 Bytes
Smart History --Art History
Smarthistory (affiliated with the Khan Academy) is "the leading open educational resource for art history."
Southwest Contemporary
Resource on Art in the S.W. area of the U.S.

British Museum Collection
Search over 4 million objects. Many are art-related.
Getty Museum Search Gateway
Many images from the Getty. Some are copyrighted so be aware. Can be filtered for open content.
Images: guide to find images on open Web
Cornell Library guide
Louvre Museum Collections
Digital Collections of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Since March 2021.
NGA Images
National Gallery of Art digital images from Washington, DC. Many are open access.
VADS (Visual Arts Data Service)
Online resource from the UK with many images copyright-cleared for use.
Web Gallery of Art
Longtime site devoted to European Art for educational purposes.

CAA: College Art Association
Association that unites professionals in the Arts since 1911. It is having a conf. on Fair Use in '22.
New York Arts Program - Visual Arts