Here is a link to a website with a pronunciation guide for artists names. There are about 100 names and a volume two is also available.
http://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/art_101_artist_name_pronunciation
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LA County museum makes 20,000 images available for free download
Two years ago LACMA made a relatively small number of its image holdings available for free download in an online library. From that beginning of 2,000 images, the museum recently expanded its downloadable collection by ten-fold, making 20,000 images of artwork available for free. This represents about a quarter of all the art represented on LACMA’s site. They’ve chosen images of artworks the museum believes to be in the public domain and developed a robust digital archive with a richer search function than most museums.
Walters Art Museum on Wikimedia Commons
Walters Art Museum on Wikimedia Commons
The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Its permanent collection includes more than 22,000 objects ranging from ancient art from around the world including pieces from Egypt, Rome and Greece. Other periods include Medieval, Renaissance, paintings up to the 19th-century, Chinese ceramics and bronzes and Art Deco decorative arts. The images being contributed to Wikimedia Commons showcase these objects, taken by professional object photographers.
On February 2, 2012, Walters Art Museum adopted Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license for all text and images published on their website art.thewalters.org and began working with Wikimedia Commons on mass upload of about 20 thousand images. On March 26, uploading was completed.
Now available on ArtStor: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
How to Photograph 3/d Artwork
Otis College Faculty Chris Warner demonstrates how to Digitally Photograph your own Three-Dimensional Art, specifically, sculpture in both artificial and natural light settings. He takes the viewer carefully step by step through the procedure so that artists can make the best possible representation of their own art. These images can then be used to upload onto personal electronic portfolios suitable for potential clients or galleries.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History from the Met
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.
It includes world maps, timelines, thematic essays, art, and indexes
Screenshot from The Metropolitan Museum of Art website
How to digitally photograph 2/d artwork tutorial
Otis College of Art has created a very informative video that shows the proper technique for photographing your 2/d artwork. This is really helpful if you are making a portfolio. Watch the video below or check it out on the AML’s YouTube channel under the tutorials section.
Wikipedia tricks and tips
I read an article today written by Amy-Mae Elliott about tricks to get more out of Wikipedia.
There are 10 tricks mentioned. Afew that I found useful are: using the Wikipedia layer in Google maps; which will display Wikipedia articles relating to the area you are looking at in google maps. Getting better Wikipedia search results by using the wildcard and viewing a page without all the links underlined. To read more tips see the article here.
Public Domain Resource
FedFlix, hosted by the Internet Archive, is a collection of nearly 2000 films produced by the US government during the 20th Century. It is a Joint Venture NTIS-1832 between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org. The topics of these films range from presidential speeches to agricultural practices to public health and safety. The site has many catagories including Animation, Arts and Music, Computers and Technology, Sports, Spirituality, and News. Some films are instructional in nature, for example there is a film for police officers on how to arrest someone. Other films are more informative in nature and some films are flat-out propaganda films. All of the FedFlix films are in the public domain so feel free to reuse and remix them as you desire. The films can be downloaded or viewed online.
This website is also home of the Wayback Machine…the internet archive, where you can Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.
Walters Art Museum collection
Walters Art Museum
http://art.thewalters.org/
The Walters Art Museum announces the launch of its redesigned works of art website with the removal of copyright restrictions on more than 10,000 online artwork images through a Creative Commons license . In addition to being able to download these images for free, the site introduces a new look and feel, and enhanced searching, tagging and community collections features. The website now has additional information about the artworks, including nearly a century of history concerning exhibitions and conservation treatments
