Art

Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, defined art in this way- “Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.” This definition obviously encompasses quite a bit. Art can be anything from simple crafts to elaborate paintings. Art also doesn’t follow standards set by society. Therefore, artistic expression can be rather shocking at times. However, the art is usually accepted more easily at a later time. Art has continued to change throughout history. New media and new techniques have been invented and artists have chosen different views to express in relation to their world.

Art Links:

• The National Gallery of Art: houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present. You can search by artist, title, subject, expanded search, provenance, or accession number for information from the collection database. Text and/or data on all of the more than 106,000 objects in the Gallery's collection can be found using various search capabilities. Images of more than 5,300 objects in the National Gallery's collection and approximately 11,500 related details are available.
• The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art): in New York boasts a collection of over 2,000,000 pieces of art representing various styles and time periods. Approximately 3,500 of this collection is available to be viewed online.
• The Museum of Modern Art: hosts over 100,000 pieces of modern art including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. Some of these pieces of art may be viewed on line.
• The Smithsonian American Art Museum: has the largest collection of American art in the world. The website offers an opportunity to view more than 12,000 works of art.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art:  As one of the largest museums in the United States, the Philadelphia Museum of Art invites visitors from around the world to explore its renowned collections, acclaimed special exhibitions, and enriching programs, both in person and online.  Since the Museum’s founding in 1876, its renowned collections have grown to include more than 225,000 objects.  The museum has 4000 objects from the collections able to be searched online.
• Milwaukee Art Museum
• Denver Art Museum
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Saint Louis Art Museum
• Seattle Art Museum
• Cincinnati Art Museum
• Brooklyn Museum
• Portland Art Museum
• Phoenix Art Museum
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Carnegie Museum of Art