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Art Modern
The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms. Amusing yet useful site for modern art.

Art – Terms, Techniques, History
The WebMuseum allows you to search for information about any artist and also contains a glossary of art terms, techniques, and art periods. Users can also search for specific art periods such as the Baroque and even includes information about world art.

Art General
The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper from the Middle Ages to the present. Records on all of the more than 110,000 objects and images of more than 6,000 objects in the collection are available online.

Art History
This art history site contains information about many different historical art periods around the world.

Art – Photography
National Geographic staff pass on tips for shooting better photos as well as tricks and secrets of their Photo Engineering Department. Includes brief biographies of National Geographic staff photographers.

Art – Photography
The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) has compiled a searchable database of historical photographs.

Art – Biography, Van Gogh
The online Vincent Van Gogh Gallery is the most thorough and comprehensive Van Gogh resource on the World Wide Web. The site boasts the privilege of displaying 100% of Vincent van Gogh's works and letters.

Art – Biography, Monet
The Claude Monet Foundation at Giverny gives extensive bibliographical information about the artist.

Art – Informational
Artcyclopedia, the guide to great art on the web, lets you search for artists from ancient times to modern. Alphabetical listings make finding a particular artist easy, but users can also search by artistic movement, medium, nationality, or gender.

Art Cartooning
From professional animators, learn how to create characters, movement sketches, backgrounds and more.

Art – Animae
The Animae Turnpike connects you to artist interviews, how-to-draw-animae lessons, animae clubs, fan pages, and more

 

Music

Music Theory
Terrific site on music theory containing basic to difficult information about music.

Music Classical
This web site provides almost everything you need concerning classical music - its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminology. It is designed to be of use for everyone from "beginners" to the music professional.

Music Terminology

Eric Weisstein’s Treasure Trove of Music contains almost anything you need to know about music terminology, including information about chords, notes, intervals, instruments, musical notation, scales and modes, time signatures, and more.

Music – Instruments, Guitar
The Online Guitar Archive is an archive for guitar tablature and chord files. It is a comprehensive site containing songs ranging from classical to modern to country. If you are looking for a particular song for the guitar, chances are good that the Online Guitar Archive has it.

Music – Instruments, Drums
The drum database will teach you how to play the drums!

 

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