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Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Our mission is to become the definitive and most
effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the
Internet:

definitive: We have compiled a comprehensive index
of every artist represented at hundreds of museum
sites, image archives, and other online resources. We
have started out by covering the biggest and best sites
around, and have links for most well-known artists to
keep you surfing for hours. Update September/2004:
We have now indexed 1800 art sites, and offer over
60,000 links to an estimated 150,000 artworks by
8,100 renowned artists.
 

most effective: The Artcyclopedia's custom search
engine is already the fastest way to search the Net
for information about fine artists. Period.
 

museum-quality: There are scads of artists with home
pages on the Web, many of whom are extremely talented.
But we can't list every site, and we really don't want to
set ourselves up as arbiters of who produces "quality"
art and who doesn't - making such a judgment is impossible
over the Internet in any case. We feel that fairest approach
is to rely on the worldwide network of museum professionals
to make that call. So our general policy is, if an artist is
in an arts museum collection, then he or she is qualified
to be listed in our database. See our Information for Artists
page for more specific information.
 
What is and is not in the Artcyclopedia's database?
 
We only provide references to sites on the World Wide
Web where artists' works can be viewed online. For
calendars of real-world museum exhibits, try a resource
such as Gallery Guide Online, or Traditional Fine Arts Online,
or the Art Museum Network's ExCalendar, all of which
seem to do an excellent job.
 
The vast majority of the fine artists in our database
specialize in painting and sculpture. We do include
other artistic media where possible. Examples of these
types of media are:

photography (e.g. Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray,
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz,
and Cindy Sherman)

decorative arts (e.g. Carl Fabergé, René Lalique, and
Louis Comfort Tiffany)

installation art (e.g. Dan Flavin and Ed Kienholz)

video, digital and web-based art (e.g. Jenny Holzer,
Bill Viola, and Nam June Paik)

naïve art/folk art/outsider art (e.g. Edward Hicks and
Grandma Moses)

architecture (e.g. Frank Lloyd Wright and Andrea Palladio)
Note that we are primarily oriented to searching by
artist name, although we intend to add more and more
access by artistic movement, nation, timeline and medium.
At the moment we do not have entries for artworks by
unknown artists. This includes works with such attributions
as "follower of", "workshop of", or "school of" given artists.
We do have entries for certain notable individual artists
whose names have been lost (for example, the Master of
the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece).
 
 
Who is behind this project?
 
The Artcyclopedia was created by John Malyon, an IT
professional, web developer, and entrepreneur currently
living in Calgary, Canada.


  Browse artists by...

Name  
Medium  
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Nationality  
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Art Movements

Abstract Expressionism
Academic Art
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Art Deco
Art Nouveau
Arte Povera
The Arts & Crafts Movement
The Ashcan School
The Barbizon School
Baroque Art
Bauhaus
Byzantine Art
Camden Town Group
Classicism
Contemporary Realism
Cubism
Dada
Der Blaue Reiter
Die Brücke
Die Neue Sachlichkeit
Expressionism
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Fantasy Art
Futurism
Golden Age of Illustration
Gothic Art
The Group Of Seven
The Harlem Renaissance
History Painting
The Hudson River School
Impressionism
Magic Realism
Mannerism
Minimalism
Les Nabis
Neoclassicism
Neo-Plasticism
Op Art
Orientalism
Photorealism
Pointillism
Pop Art
Post-Impressionism
Precisionism
The Pre-Raphaelites
Realism
Regionalism

The Renaissance
    Early Renaissance
    High Renaissance
    Mannerism
    Northern Renaissance

The Rococo Style
Romanticism
The Sensation Show
Social Realism
Surrealism
Symbolism
Ukiyo-e Printmaking
Western Art
Wildlife Art


Artcyclopedia's new online forum:
ArtConversation

If you have questions or suggestions or want to discuss
the great issues in art, here's the place.
www.artconversation.com


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