BTECs in Art and Design | Useful websites
Below is a list of websites that you may find useful. They have been grouped into categories so that, as the list grows, it will still be easy to find the websites that are of interest to you. Click on a category to see the websites for that topic; click on it again to close that group.
 Art and artefacts |
The British Museum houses a vast collection of world art and artefacts - a good starting point for historical and contemporary references.
http://www.britishmuseum.org | | Art and design - general |
Mark Harden's Artchive is a virtual gallery of classic and contemporary painting, sculpture, art critiques and links.
http://www.artchive.com | | Contemporary crafts |
A good place to show learners up-to-the minute craft activities and discussions about the techniques and the craftspeople who create them.
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk | | Contemporary furniture and product design |
The online version of Icon magazine, featuring comprehensive archives of architecture and product design.
http://www.iconeye.com | | Design |
A good place for 3D product and furniture design students to get an idea of the range of iconic examples of 20th- and 21st-century design which can be seen in the museum's frequent major exhibitions. Design Factory Projects are available which enable tutors to enter their students into competition projects.
http://www.designmuseum.org | | Ethnic artefacts; world art/crafts |
The Pitt Rivers Museum cares for one of the world's greatest ethnographic collections. You can explore the vast range of artefacts in virtual galleries.
http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk | | Fine art |
MoMA houses a vast collection of 20th-century European and American art, useful for Critical and Contextual Studies.
http://www.moma.org |
The Tate Gallery's collection of British Art from 1500 and international modern art is available to view online in virtual galleries. A very useful tool for teaching Critical and Contextual Studies in the classroom.
http://www.tate.org.uk/collection |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of over two million works of art provides a useful study tool for teaching Critical and Contextual studies in the classroom.
http://www.metmuseum.org | | Photography |
This gallery, dedicated to photography, is a good place to take students of photography as it has very useful contemporary and historical archives.
http://www.photonet.org.uk |
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