week 2 joutnal

Week One

Recommended Resources Articles

1. SmartHistory. (n.d.). A beginner’s guide to the history of Western culture. Themes. Retrieved from

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/for-the-beginner.html

 This resource provides a chronological summary of the eras articulated by historians for the purpose of

studying the progression of western cultural history.

Multimedia

1. Khan Academy. (Producer). Why look at art [Video]. Available from http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/why-

look-at-art.html

 This video contains commentary from leading museum professionals as to the cultural importance of the

study of art.

2. Phillips, J. (2013, April 24). Prezi demonstration [Prezi presentation]. Retrieved from

http://prezi.com/mh6btb2vztvj/prezi-demonstration/

 This presentation provides detailed information on using Prezi.

Websites

2. Learn & support. Prezi. Retrieved from http://prezi.com/support/

 Review the information available on this web page to explore various ways that a presentation can be

designed.

3. Manual/FAQ. Prezi. Retrieved from https://prezi.zendesk.com/forums

 Review the information available on this web page for detailed information on using Prezi.

Museum and Image Websites

1. Art and artists | Tate (http://www.tate.org.uk/art)

2. Art Institute of Chicago (http://www.artic.edu/)

3. Art Renewal Center Artist Index (http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artistindex.php)

4. The Famous Artists (http://www.thefamousartists.com/)

5. The Frick Collection (http://www.frick.org/)

6. Google Art Project (http://www.googleartproject.com/)

7. Guggenheim (http://www.guggenheim.org/)

8. Louvre Museum Official Website (http://www.louvre.fr/en)

9. Mark Harden’s Artchive (http://artchive.com/index.html)

10. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org)

11. MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art (http://www.moma.org/)

12. National Gallery of Art (http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb.html)

13. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (http://www.sfmoma.org/)

14. SIRIS – Smithsonian Institute Research Information System (http://siris-

artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=)

15. Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York (http://www.cooperhewitt.org/)

16. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/)

17. Uffizi, Uffizi gallery, Florence (http://www.uffizi.com/)

18. Vatican Museums – Official web site (http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html)

19. Victoria & Albert Museum (http://www.vam.ac.uk/)

20. Web Gallery of Art (http://www.wga.hu/)

21. WebMuseum: Famous Artworks exhibition (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/)

22. Whitney Museum of American Art (http://whitney.org/)

23. Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)