Virtual Fieldtrips Exploring

20^th Century European & American Artists

Ashley S. Moss-Pham

Welcome to Ms. Moss-Pham’s guided tour of four virtual field trips to famous museums and/or art-related websites which will allow you to experience the most beautiful art of the 20^th century without leaving the classroom let alone the state! Featured are the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Artcyclopedia, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Enjoy your virtual experience of these amazing galleries and the treasures they contain.

Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988)

The Block, 1971

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Introduction to the Permanent Collection

Note to the Reader (explains all information seen online under the painting)

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/noteToReader.asp

Introduction to the Department of Modern Art at the Met

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/introduction.asp?dep=21

The Modern Collection

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=21

Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967) Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940)

The Lighthouse at Two Lights, 1929 Temple Gardens, 1920

Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884–1920)

Reclining Nude, 1917

The National Gallery of Art – Modern and Contemporary Painting & Sculpture
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/20cent.shtm

This exhibit of modern painting and sculpture is very well-organized and easy to navigate. Each artist in this collection is featured on a separate web page with information about his/her art work and the artistic movement or aesthetic which his/her art represents. There are links on the page to more detailed biographical information about the artist and to the entire collection of his/her work either owned by or on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. The list of links to information about the individual works of art indicates whether or not an online image of the work is available. Most are, so enjoy!

Georgia O'Keeffe, American 1887-1986

Pablo Picasso, Spanish 1881-1973

Andy Warhol
Also known as Andrew Warhola
American, 1928 – 1987

A Boy for Meg, 1962

Artcyclopedia – the guide to great art online

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Although Artcyclopedia is not a traditional museum website, it is an incredible online resource for learning about art, artists, and great artistic movements and it does give the online visitor access to thousands of images of artworks in much the same way that an online museum gallery does. The site’s mission statement is to “become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet.” For those interested in virtual field trips in the area of art and art history, an additional advantage of visiting this site is that it only provides references to sites on the world wide web where artists’ works can be viewed online.

For a virtual field trip into the world of modern art on Artcyclopedia’s website, we can begin browsing artists’ work by Art Movement (an index of art movements is located near the bottom right-hand side of the homepage). We could select “Cubism,” “Expressionism,” “Bauhaus,” or “Harlem Renaissance,” for that matter, as all of these movements represent periods in the development of what has come to be known collectively as “modern art.”

If we were to select, for example, “Expressionism” on Artcyclopedia’s index of Art Movements, we would see a description of the movement with links to individual artists who are best known representatives of that movement. “Expressionism” gives us such choices as Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and Amadeo Modigliani. Choosing any one of these artists will lead to a laundry list of links to museum websites where you can access these images online. Overseas museum websites have a button called “Translate” that enables you to view the website in English. Here are a few images of Kandinsky’s art culled from the long list of online museum possibilities given in Artcyclopedia.

Yale University Art Gallery

New Haven, Connecticut

The Waterfall

Gravitation

Panel for Edwin R. Campbell, No. 3, 191414

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City

http://www.moma.org/collection/search.php

The Museum of Modern Art's online collection currently represents 890 artists and 2507 objects from the Museum's departments. You can browse the collection by category (e.g., Architecture & Design; Painting & Sculpture, Photography, Film & Media, etc.) or by artist’s name using an alphabetical index. Here are a few images from the Surrealist period in modern art available in MoMA’s extensive collection:

Salvador Dalí. (Spanish, 1904-1989).

The Persistence of Memory, 1931

René Magritte. (Belgian, 1898-1967)

The False Mirror, 1928

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) American, 1890-1976

The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows, 1916

I hope you have found this online brochure of virtual fieldtrips to art museums and art-related websites useful and fun. Try these sites yourself – they are wonderful!