DfEE National Curriculum - Art Primary section
Art
DfEE National Curriculum - Art Primary section
Bradford
City Centre Sculpture Trail
Art
Guide
Over 1,900 artists and their associated works are featured in the comprehensive
art guide.
Inside
Art: An Art History Game
Find out about the artist Van Gogh on this interactive site. Children, who need to be good readers, become part of one of his paintings where the character in the painting teaches them about this post-Impressionist artist. A great site for art at upper Key Stage 2.
An excellent resource for the Knowledge and Understanding Attainment Target of National Curriculum Art, this site offers a focused set of activities to get students thinking about the elements that make up a picture and the overall effect that they have.
National
Museum of Photography, Film & Television
The official site from the Bradford museum.
Mother
of All Art History Links Pages
A rich source of all sorts of art links.
This highly organised site is a very good gateway to art-related sites.
Illustrated stories, riddles, colouring pages, and an annotated list of related sites written especially for Key Stage 1 pupils.
A huge number of images are presented on this database of art, architectural and museum objects.
Maecenas:
Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
Hundreds of images of the art and architecture of Greek and Roman antiquity.
This site contains some great ideas for art projects.
A wide-ranging source of information about art and artists all over the world.
America's answer to Tony Hart presents a beginners' guide to drawing in three lessons.
Period
and Style for Designers
A site for everyone with an interest in the changing fashions in art and architecture throughout history. The timescale goes from the ancient art of Egypt and Rome through to the 1970s.
Cosmic's
Yo-Yo Tricks - The Throws
Stained
Glass World - Art for Windows
Themes covered are Heritage, Saints and Religion, Victorian Decorative, Mythical and Fairytales, and Nature.
This site contains a variety of Christmas crafts, all with clear diagrams and instructions.
Recreate the treasures of Ancient Egypt in your classroom at this novel website.
Pieces of Aboriginal art and music are displayed at this site.
Artlex
Dictionary of Visual Art
This site defines about 1800 art terms, many with illustrations, pronunciation notes and quotations.
Thumbnail reproductions of work by Spanish painter, Tapies. The text is in English
African
Art: Aesthetic and Meaning - An Electronic Exhibition Catalogue
An online catalogue of fourteen African artefacts, from the Bayly Art Museum in Virginia, USA.
Visit the gallery of Nairobi-Minneapolis to view examples of East African stone and wood carvings,
musical instruments, tribal artefacts and masks.
Africa:
The Art Of A Continent
Use a clickable map to view high-quality photos of art work, and read a brief history, from any region of Africa.
A selection of festive images to download, print and colour.
Teacher’s
Guide to African Art
This multicultural resource provides an introduction to African Art.
This online magazine provides an excellent resource for teachers in the Nursery and across the Primary Key Stages.
Intended as a resource for those teaching art.
This site acts as a gallery for art works associated with towns and cities of Britain.
The 'History of the Poster' and an extensive gallery of posters ranging from advertising to film to dance-hall designs.
Web
Museum, Paris - Famous paintings exhibition
An excellent source of paintings to download, indexed under more than 150 artists and themes.
Over two hundred modern artists, some well known, others not so, are showcased in this online gallery.
Portraits and their value as historical documents. The site is designed for KS3 pupils to accompany the BBC TV History file series, 'Black Peoples of the Americas'.
The
Official Eric Carle Web Site
The 'Caterpillar Exchange' is a truly cross-curricular treasure trove of ideas for developing literacy, numeracy, science and the arts using Eric Carle’s appealing books.
The
National Gallery - The Collection
Covering periods from 1260 to 1900 and artists from Raphael to Renoir, children can select images, enlarge, evaluate and research artist information.
Discover the important people of the time (e.g. Montezuma II), significant events and life as an Aztec child.
Follow the ''Art Adventure'' through to a logical conclusion and the likes of Raphael, Titian, Millet and Picasso will soon become familiar.
A colourful, fun and exciting site.
View a small sample of the museum’s most famous impressionist paintings. Works by Manet, Seurat
and Van Gogh are included in the collections.
Images and information on ancient and contemporary masks from around the world.
This site provides detailed instructions for making a bamboo pen for calligraphy work.
This site contains photos of a number of Greek artefacts which are expandable to view much larger. They are mostly items of pottery held in the British Museum.
A site devoted to William Morris, with links to Pre-Raphaelites and other Victorian sites.
This site covers the work of five Spanish artists - Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Antoni Tapies, Eduardo Chillada and Luis Fernandez - with a selection of thumbnail images that can be enlarged and downloaded.
Art
History Resources on the Web
Based on Gardner's 'Art through the Ages', this site provides an excellent source of images of paintings, sculpture and architecture with glossaries, summaries of art movements and wide-ranging links.
The
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
The Glasgow Museum’s site includes a virtual and guided tour of the museum itself and the Mackintosh House.
Printable fun activities with an Aussie theme, information about the school and a visitors' survey.
FineArt
Forum Resource Directory
This site provides access to a vast range of links, organised in terms of museums and galleries; journals, magazines and newsletters concerned with art; photography, painting, etc.
A very child-user-friendly site, it shows how the colours in wax crayons are made and offers ideas for activities from ages 3 to 8+.
Art
Touches the People in Our Lives
This site offers lesson plans that focus on themes of human feelings.
Dead links deleted 30th November 2000