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On this page you will find very useful weblinks which will help you with both your Culture Studies in Junior Cycle, Art History and Appreciation in Senior Cycle, and with practical work

Practical Papers Leaving Cert ART

You might have noticed that the practical papers for 2010 and 2011 are missing from the Exam Material Archive of the examinations. ie website. For 2011 they are in a different location, in Examination Information. Click on this link to see all of 2011 practical papers.

Here are the Still life passages 2010 HL

GENERAL

www.googleartproject.com major museums from around the world are featured on this google art website. You can view a selection of artworks, zoom into them, and create and share your own collection. Definitely one to check out!!

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ – the website of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, very comprehensive; a fantastic amount of info in both visual and written form covering thousands of years and art works from all cultures across the world

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/ – a very good website covering all things Irish, European and International, galleries, timelines, greatest sculptors and lots more…

http://www.haltadefinizione.com/home.jsp Italian website where some renaissance works by Botticelli , Da Vinci etc can be viewed in very high quality definition, albeit with a watermark to prevent unauthorized use. You can zoom right in and see every brush stroke.  Sign up, and hover over the gallery tab and select Painting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki – Wikipedia – while not guaranteed to be always totally corrrect – is nevertheless a fantastic resource, with frequently excellent images

www.examinations.ie - this is the Examinations Department website for past papers and marking schemes going back to 2000! A VIP page!!!!

AH You Tube videos CUBISM – A document with numerous weblinks explaining Cubism. Check out the Cubist Lemon drawing! A practical exercise that’s fun to do

IRISH ART

www.teachnet.ie/jshortt/ – great amount of info on the Stonecarving of the Early Christian Period, includes Mystery Case Files with a lost cross which has to be found!

http://www.megalithicireland.com/High%20Cross%20Home.htm

Here are some relevant videos on Metalworking techniques, very much relevant for the Irish Section

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLfXXRfRIzY - How to solder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFSmu93q7VY - How to make filligree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFSmu93q7VY - How  Cloisonnee is made

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55BuiTVp7o - How Champleve is made

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOE99r5N0Ds - How to do chip carving (wood)

EUROPEAN ART

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/ – a multi-media website, part of the Khan Academy, with thousands of videos covering the whole history of art from Paleolithic to Ai Weiwei. Included are sculpture, architecture and photography. Definitely one to check out!

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/alphabet – a fantastic resource, very extensive, not just paintings but also drawings. It has for example all of Picasso’s Cubist works! It comes at a price though in that the subpages are very slow to build – possibly because of the wealth of images – but it’s worth the wait! So don’t keep clicking!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnu8dGyW5ys – a great BBC4 documentary on DALI. Have a search, there should be other ones also, on PICASSO, MATISSE  and Andy WARHOL

www.artchive.com – click on the Mona Lisa top right, this will take you to more than 200 artists

http://picasso.shsu.edu/ – this website has all of Picasso’s work archived according to years

http://www.magritte.com/ – a website for Magritte’s work

www.vangoghletters.org/ – all 902 of van Gogh’s letters. Individual texts can be viewed both in their original form with the sketches, and in print, in their original language and in translation with the sketches as add-ons.