art & design

links (correct at February 2008)

 

Useful Websites recommended by your Art & Design Teachers:

 

Expressive

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Only the BIGGEST art website on the Planet!!! Lots of useful links to galleries around the world and also links to Art Movements.

www.artchive.com/

Lots of useful links to galleries around the world and also links to Art Movements – lots of pictures too.

www.nationalgalleries.org

The National Galleries of Scotland website – recently upgraded. This is now one of the best art websites you will find. You can search artists by name or by subject matter, then look at each image in detail and read a little about the work too. Highly recommended…!!!

www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

Not to be mistaken for the website above, this is the website for the National Gallery in London. This is a great resource with the facility to scroll in great detail over a few of the gallery masterpieces.

www.tate.org.uk/

This is the website for the FOUR Tate Galleries (Modern, Britain, Liverpool and St Ives) a fantastic resource of modern art

www.vggallery.com/

The official Van Gogh website. EVERYTHING he ever drew, painted or wrote is here!!!

http://picasso.tamu.edu/picasso/

A fabulous Picasso website. Not everything Picasso produced is here so you will just have to make do with only 12,070 works which are on show…

www.artcyclopedia.com/

Another good general website with good links to artists and art movements

www.moma.org/index.html

The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA) no less! See what’s happening in the Big Apple!

www.axisweb.org

How much time do you have? This is a vast searchable database of contemporary artists. You can search by name, subject matter, etc…..there is some great work here BUT, the quality of artworks can be rather variable.

 

Design

www.designmuseum.org/

The website of the Design Museum in London. Difficult to navigate (maybe it’s just me!) but there’s lots of information on designers and great links too

www.dazzle-exhibitions.com

Information on jewellery exhibitions plus contemporary jewellery makers with details and  images of their work.

www.alexandermcqueen.com/flash.html

A great fashion website from one of the world’s great fashion designers. See Kate Moss dance and disappear…amazing!

www.viviennewestwood.com

Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood’s website with her latest designs and great links to her earlier work – useful for Critical Activity/Art Design Studies.

www.attik.com

Trendy or what??? If you’re into cutting edge graphic design you’ll love this site

www.velvetdavinci.com

American contemporary jewellery store. Lots of images, ideas and links (Scottish designers also featured – check out Katy Hackney)

www.dazzle-exhibitions.com

An excellent jewellery website. Check out the Makers’ Pages (at the bottom of the page) with links to individual designers’ websites.

http://www.habitat.co.uk

This is certainly worth a look! Follow the links to “vodcasts” then watch and listen to contemporary designers talking about the designs they have produced for the international homewares store Habitat. Inspiring…

Expressive and Design

www.vam.ac.uk/

The website of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (known as the V&A). A great resource for design, fashion and expressive too! The V&A is currently considering the possibility of  building a new V&A….in Dundee!

www.dca.org.uk/home.asp

Don’t overlook our own DCA!!! Not a great deal of information on artists (yet!) but worth a look. Check out the classes offered and the cinema listings too!

And finally…

www.sqa.org.uk

Let’s not forget the SQA Website with examples of pupils’ work at Standard Grade, Higher and Advanced Higher levels. Have a look at other pupils’ work and compare it with your own….. The site is quite awkward to navigate but if you click on “services for learners” and then select Art & Design from the “NQ Subjects” menu, the “Candidate Gallery” option is easy to select from the list.

 

Contemporary Art Gallery Websites

Dundee

www.dca.org.uk                                                     

Obviously!     ...and much more than just our local contemporary art gallery, one of the top four in Britain!

 

Edinburgh

http://www.nationalgalleries.org

The National Galleries of Scotland’s website – links to the Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery. This website has recently been updated and now provides images of almost all the works in the collection. You can browse by artist name or by subject matter. Excellent – highly recommended!

www.inglebygallery.com

Probably the best private contemporary art gallery in Scotland

www.scottish-gallery.co.uk

Another private gallery which specialises in contemporary Scottish art and design.

www.openeyegallery.co.uk

This private gallery also specialises in contemporary Scottish art and design and also the work of contemporary European and American printmakers

www.fruitmarket.co.uk

Edinburgh’s answer to DCA (and designed by the same architect) - well worth a visit (great bookshop!)

www.stills.org

Probably the best gallery in Scotland specialising in contemporary photography

Glasgow

www.glasgowmuseums.com

Glasgow Museum & Art Galleries’ website with links to Glasgow’s own Gallery of Modern Art

www.cca-glasgow.com

Glasgow’s answer to DCA - not nearly as successful as ours (!) but still worth a look

www.transmissiongallery.org

This is the gallery to visit in Glasgow to see cutting-edge, avant-garde, and often difficult work – but crucial!!!

 

Newcastle / Gateshead

www.balticmill.com

Gateshead’s version of DCA (and how!)  - amazing!

 

Sunderland

www.ngca.co.uk

Sunderland’s Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art – another excellent gallery

 

Middlesbrough

www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/content/leisure-and-culture/museums-and-galleries/mima.en

MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) –just opened January 2007 – looks amazing

 

Bristol

www.arnolfini.org

Contemporary art in Bristol

 

Birmingham

www.ikon-gallery.co.uk

A great contemporary art gallery

 

London

www.tate.org.uk/modern/

Probably the best gallery of contemporary art in the world (and certainly the most visited). This website has links to Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives

www.serpentinegallery.org

A great gallery in Hyde Park with an excellent bookshop

www.whitecube.com

www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk

www.timothytaylorgallery.com/

www.victoria-miro.com

www.alisonjacquesgallery.com

www.gagosian.com/

 

All of the above are among the most important private galleries in the world. This is where you see emerging new talent and also the work of established living artists. Most have great links to other information…