Year 10 Art

The Australia Council: The Australia Council is the Australian Government's funding and advisory body. Through a range of grants, it directly supports young, emerging and established artists, in the fields of: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, community cultural development, dance, literature, music, new media arts, theatre and visual arts/craft.

'A listing of obituaries for Australian artists and art professionals based on information received in the National Gallery of Australia Research Library since 1990. Warning: This database contains the names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. It may also contain links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased.'

University of NSW. The Dictionary of Australian Artists Online provides biographical data, contextual information, commentary and images. The data focuses predominantly on Colonial artists; women artists to 1950; black and white artists; Aboriginal artists of the Western Desert and the Sydney region. It is constantly being added to.

Gateway to Australian visual arts, crafts and design sector. Contains news, directory information, profiles of artists, images of work and links to other sites.

Search photographs, negatives, artworks, drawings, posters, postcards and other pictures from collections held at the National Library, State Libraries, and other libraries and organisations.(Includes Picture Australia)

The J. Paul Getty Trust: The AAT is a structured vocabulary containing around 125,000 terms and other information about concepts. Terms in AAT may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials. The coverage of the AAT ranges from Antiquity to the present, and the scope is global.

Contains images of over 7500 artists. Search by artwork title and museum/gallery, or browse by medium, movement, subject and nationality.

Tibetan and Himalayan art works in collections from around the world.

Luna commons is a site where you can find and manage high resolution images. Illustrations are accompanied by comprehensive descriptions, can be zoomed in and manipulated.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is funded by the Heilbrunn Foundation, New Tamarind Foundation, and Zodiac Fund. The Timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Museum's collection. It is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects. First launched in 2000, the Timeline extends from prehistory to the present day. The Museum's curators, conservators, and educators research and write the Timeline, that continues to expand in scope and depth and reflect the most up-to-date scholarship.

University of Michigan. Lists of websites, software products, discussion groups and professional associations with a focus on images.

Documents digital installation art. It is research orientated and interactive and was established with media artists, researchers and institutions.

European based site has links to museums world-wide which provide additional links.

Brief artist biographies.

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 11th to mid-19th centuries.

Detailed articles about the history of art from Prehistoric times to today.

The VADS image collection provides over 100000 art and design images free for use in education, drawn from university and college art collections, museums ...

'Created by the Library of Congress, American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections'

'Excellent image database containing images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, Bridgeman provides a central source of fine art and historical images for users. Based in London but focus is international in scope.'

The website features profiles of professional artists and curators, interviews, discussions, art news, debates and showcases the artists to watch.