Painting

Resources in this category:

About.com: Painting
http://painting.about.com/

An Internet guide for artistic painting, with feature articles, Website links, and discussion forums. Topics covered include instruction and techniques, color theory, famous painters and galleries, painting supplies, painting for youth, and career as an artist.

Art of the First World War
http://www.art-ww1.com/

This site commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Armistice through "an exhibition of 110 paintings brought together by the major history museums of Europe. World War I as seen by 54 painters on both sides." The paintings are arranged by painter or grouped chronologically by stages of the war. Text discussing the war and each painter is interspersed throughout the exhibit. Versions of the site are available in English, French, and German.

Guide to Oil Painting
http://www.guidetooilpainting.com/default.html

Offers a variety of information on oil paintings including necessary materials, basic knowledge and steps, and some exercises.

The Life and Work of Artist Anton S. Tobey
http://www.altontobey.org/

This is a very comprehensive site on the life and works of the late artist Anton S. Tobey. "The site contains over 300 of Tobey’s murals, portraits of famous people, his published paintings in Life and The Golden Books series and an illustrated biography of him with over 50 illustrations of him with family, at work and teaching art."

Russian Painting
http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/ruspaint.html

Russian artistry from medieval Russia to the present.

The Shakespeare Art Museum
http://shakespeare-art-museum.com/

Featuring the writings and visual works (oil paintings, graphics, and watercolors) of visual artist Hannah Tompkins, these works based on the plays and themes of William Shakespeare were displayed at the Shakespeare Art Museum in Ashland Oregon. The Museum was founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization by Wolf Tomkins and Hannah Tompkins. "At the museum, Hannah often gave gallery talks and tours sharing her wit and wisdom of the Shakespearean experience." The museum closed in 1990 and Hannah died of cancer five years later. This online art museum displays Tompkin's oil paintings, multi-color graphics, and watercolors with her text and descriptions, all dealing with the works and themes of Shakespeare.

The Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery
http://www.vggallery.com/

"The site currently contains information about all of Van Gogh's paintings." It has "grown to more than 2,330 pages and 2,345 graphics." Besides viewing the paintings online, you can download databases listing the paintings, Van Gogh stamps, or Van Gogh's Correspondence for free. There's also a biography and chronology of Van Gogh's life.

Voices from the Gaps
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/index.html

This site promotes women writers and artists of color. It was designed and is maintained by the University of Minnesota and contains biographies and literary analysis of the artists' work. The site also has blogs from the artists and recorded interviews. Though much of the analysis is done by students at the university, it is a good place to start research about these artists and writers.

Web Gallery of Art
http://www.wga.hu/index.html

"The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1750), currently containing over 8,000 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available."