Responsable : Professeur Marie-Madeleine Martinet

http://www.artlex.com
an alphabetical dictionary of art terms, with, in each article, hyperlinks to the entries on the other terms mentioned in it, and illustrations, themselves hyperlinked

http://www.groveart.com (by subscription)
articles by specialists on numerous subjects in art history, with diagrams if necessary, and hyperlinks to image libraries, such as the Bridgeman Art Library

http://www.nga.gov
the site of the National Gallery of Art (Washington), with ‘online tours’

Among the paintings studied, two may be singled out because they cover distinct aspects of artistic technique, in different sections underlining the diversity of approaches and their relationship though distinct multimedia presentational forms:

• John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark (an 18^th century painting on a historical theme)
• the identification of sources and motifs in heroic painting in studies of details
• the formal analysis of movement in an animation

• Jackson’s Pollock’s N°1, 1950 (an abstract modern painting)
• the use of colours with references to the artist’s palette
• the study of the painting process as part of the artistic experience of ‘action painting’ in a documentary animation

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/home/siteindex.htm
the site of the National Gallery (London), exploring the relation between time and painting – a current exhibition

• the movement of the object represented
• the movements of the observer’s eyes as they can be traced with an ‘eye-tracker’

http://www.metropolismag.com/
section on ‘exhibitions and events’

‘Politics American Style’ gives examples of decorative design mediating a political message: eg. Napoleonic furniture for American Presidents. The link between art and politics is emphasised by the dual meaning of ‘style’ (‘art’ in the strict sense of the term + ‘manner’ generally speaking, here in politics)

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/london/model
a Virtual Reality reconstruction of the Crystal Palace, with sections relating this feat of Victorian engineering to Victorian society; it is an example of the interdisciplinary approach relating architectural analysis to social history (but its spelling mistakes should not be copied)

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography

• sections showing how photographic effects convey a historical vision.
  eg. how they create the public image of statesmen, such as Lincoln
  
• a ‘lab’ where the user can click on ‘tool’s such as a viewfinder and a zoom to simulate their functions – modify photographs and see the distinct effects: eg. a working site
  
• with a close up on three workmen only, or with a medium shot showing the foreman as well above them, which gives a tense atmosphere.