Fine Arts: Useful Websites

Guide to Great Art on the Internet. It allows search by artists, artworks and art museums.

Artistsnetwork provides a wide range of art materials including art contests, art videos, online art classes and books for artists etc.

AAA has collated one of the most valuable collections of material on contemporary art in the region. Built of 85% donated material, the collection now holds over 50,000 records, comprised of hundreds of thousands of physical and digital items, and it continues to grow. Accessible free of charge from AAA’s physical space and searchable from anywhere in the world via the online catalogue, much of the collection is now also available globally via the Collection Online.

AskART is an online database containing close to 300,000 artists, with information ranging from biographies to auction records. It offers extensive biographical information about American artists, as well as book and periodical references, along with international artists’ auction records and images. Over 7,500 museums, dealers, and auction houses are referenced. AskART subscribers have complete access to this information, including artists’ financial graphics.

The temporal and spatial qualities of handscroll paintings are lost in photographs of selected sections that are reproduced in books and projected in this resource.

The e-Museum website is now available as an iPhone application, allowing users to access the treasures of Japan's four National Museums anytime, anywhere.

Resources for conducting research both online and on-site at the Getty Research Institute Research Library and Special Collections.

A guide to the literature on Hong Kong art

Set up by Hong Kong Government to plan, promote and support the broad development of the arts.

M+ Stories is the bilingual online storytelling platform of M+, a new museum of contemporary visual culture based in Hong Kong. M+ Stories is a gateway to access writings, videos and resources of visual culture of the 20th and 21st century. The platform covers various aspects of visual culture, from artists’ interviews, facts of visual culture, collections conservations to M+ works etc. It also opens up access to explore over 5,000 objects of visual culture through M+ Collections Beta.

Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries.

Retrieved from HKU Fine Arts department's website

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