Art Catalog Lab Entrance Assignment:
Finding Art

Find At Least 10 Art Works

In the Art Gallery Lab, you will set up a web page that contains an interactive art catalog. In preparation for that, you need to find information about 10 (or more) art pieces that you can include in your catalog. For this project, we will be including only visual art, not music, film, theatre, or other performance art.

You may search any of the sites listed in the Sample Sources section below, you may look in the "Crowd-Sourced Art Gallery" created by previous classes (this is output from a different, related lab that we will do later this quarter), or you may find some interesting piece of art on your own. There are just a few criteria for anything you find:

• You should choose something that is appropriate to share with other members of the class. We do not want to be creating a "hostile class environment."
• The image of each piece you find should be one you can legally use (examples: public domain, or licensed with a license that allows at least non-commercial reuse).
• You should be able to find most, if not all, of the following information on the web site where you found each image:

  Image URL	Title	Artist Name	Year	Museum	Medium

  • URL (i.e., web address) of image of the work (thumbnail image is sufficient).
  • Title of work or, for older works, a descriptive category.
  • Artist name or, for older pieces, originating culture.
  • Date when created (for older pieces, might be general date, like 8th Century, or 13th Century BC).
  • Current location (e.g., museum name).
  • Medium (this might be as general as painting/drawing/statue/other)
  If the work is well-known, you may be able to supplement the information at the site where you found the image with information from elsewhere on the internet.

To test that each URL will work in an <IMG SRC='url'> tag, download this minimal HTML file and put your URL in the two spots labeled url_goes_here. If an image doesn't show up correctly, but clicking on it leads to a valid page, then the URL probably has some components that cannot be included in an IMG tag. If the image is from a Wikipedia page, you can click on the broken image, go to the original, then click on the Download icon in the lower right corner. Choose "View in Browser" and then copy and paste that version of the URL to use in your entry form.

Sample Sources

Below are some sample pages from which you could choose one or more interesting pieces. On some of these pages you may have to scroll down quite a bit to find most of their online images.

• The "Crowd-Sourced Art Gallery" created by previous classes (This is output from a different, related lab that we will do later this quarter.)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Institute_of_Chicago
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_museum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_China
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_art
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_art
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_art

• http://www.publicdomainfiles.com/
• https://pxhere.com/en/photos?q=museum
• Google images (e.g., fine art images)
  use Tools -> Usage rights -> Labeled for reuse (or noncommercial reuse)
• https://unsplash.com/t/architecture
• pixabay.com (but it can be hard to figure out the artist name & they do not provide dates)
• maxpixel.net (again, it may be hard to figure out artist name & date)