Transcript Online Resources From Oxford University Press This presentation gives a brief description of Oxford Art Online It tells you what Oxford Art Online is how.

Online Resources
From Oxford University Press
This presentation gives a brief description of
Oxford Art Online
It tells you
what Oxford Art Online is
how it can help you
how to look for information in it
The presentation will take about 5 minutes
Oxford
the
Grove Art
Art Online
Online is
contains
gateway
to the
multi-award
more than
48,000
signed
winning
Art Online articles,Grove
over 22,000
the
ultimate authority
on all
biographies,
over 6,000
aspects
of visual
arts
art images
and over
worldwide
- from prehistory
40,000 editorially
selected
toimage
the present
links today.
museums
and galleries providing
essential visual support
for art history scholarship.
www.oxfordartonline.com
The site gives access to
the entire content of the
print edition of Grove Art
as well as other titles.
If your subscription includes
the Benezit Dictionary of
Artists you will have access
to it from this site as well.
www.oxfordartonline.com
monet
To look for information on
an artist, an artistic
movement, art in a
particular country, a
subject such as floors or
gardens, or even artistic
materials, simply type into
the box at the top right.
www.oxfordartonline.com
www.oxfordartonline.com
Click on an image
to expand it.
This is the main article on
Claude Monet.
If you scroll down the article,
you will notice that there are
several images embedded
in the text.
www.oxfordartonline.com
Click on the Images tab at the
top to see all the images on
one page.
Scroll down this page to see
a list of Monet works held in
galleries around the world.
www.oxfordartonline.com
waterfall
You can search for an image of
a particular work directly, even
if you do not know the name of
the artist or the title.
www.oxfordartonline.com
However, there is a
waterfall in the
background of the
painting.
Notice that the word
‘waterfall’ does not
appear in the title of
this piece.
www.oxfordartonline.com
A free discovery service, the
Oxford Index, lets you search
across Oxford’s digital
academic content and find
related content every step of the
way.
www.oxfordartonline.com
Practice
Now you have had a brief introduction, why not explore for
yourself? Have a go at finding the answers to these
questions.
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Which nationality was Piet Mondrian?
Which two Spanish artists painted ‘Las Meninas’?
Which artist is chiefly associated with pointillism?
Can you see any of Mark Rothko’s works in Australia?
Further help
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•
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•
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•
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•
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