world art websites

The following web sites form only a PARTIAL list of the many artists practicing around the world.

Explore the sites, view the art and read about each artist’s biography or philosophy as you like.

AFRICAN AMERICAN >

PBS: Art 21: Portraying the Black American Experience

https://art21.org/playlist/portraying-the-black-american-experience/

Scalar/The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture:

Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Davis, Augusta Savage 

http://scalar.usc.edu/works/harlem-renaissance/artist

Museum of Modern Art: (Jacob Lawrence)

The Phillips Collection/Moma

https://www.moma.org/artists/3418 

https://lawrencemigration.phillipscollection.org/

Faith Ringgold, Artist

https://www.faithringgold.com/

Kara Walker, Google ArtsandCulture Site

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m04zfgb?categoryId=artist

Betye Saar: Studio & Gallery

http://www.betyesaar.net/stu/studio.html

http://www.betyesaar.net/gal/gallery.html

Romare Bearden Foundation Video (6:33)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFXKqQ5sQFk

AFRICAN >

The National Museum of African Art       

http://africa.si.edu/

Nigerian artist (Yinka Shonibare)             

http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/shonibare/

Yinka Shonibare Artist Website         

http://www.yinkashonibarembe.com/sculpture.html

LATINO / HISPANIC >

The Art Museum of the Americas           

http://museum.oas.org/collection.html

Latino Virtual Museum (GoogleArts + Smithsonian)

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/smithsonian-latino-virtual-museum

Mexican muralist (Diego Rivera)             

https://www.diegorivera.org/ 

German Mexican painter (Frida Kahlo)    

http://www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/worksofart

Venezuelan Sculptor (Marisol)               

https://hyperallergic.com/295423/marisol-innovative-pop-art-sculptor-written-out-of-history-dies-at-85/

Chilean Sculptor (Mario Irarrazabal)        

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hand-desert 

Puerto Rican Artist Communities           

http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/12/puerto-rican-artist-communities/

Nuyorican Cafe (Puerto Rican Art, Music & Spoken Word in New York)           

http://www.nuyorican.org/history.php

ASIAN >

Chinese American painter (Hung Liu)     

http://www.hungliu.com/ 

Chinese / New York  (Ai Weiwei)                        

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/15/ai-weiwei-remembering-sichuan-earthquake 

Japanese pop (Takashi Murakami)           

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/04/03/arts/0404-MURA_index.html

SOUTHEAST ASIAN >

National Commission on Culture & the Arts (Philippines)

http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about-culture-and-arts/gallery/gallery-page.php

MOCA Bangkok: Museum of Contemporary Art, Thailand

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museum-of-contemporary-art-moca-bangkok

NATIVE AMERICAN >

Native American Artists:

1. Legal definition

http://www.artnatam.com/regist.html

Notice also the term “First Nations” referring to indigenous people of Canada

Native American Artists:

2. The actual laws

http://www.artnatam.com/law.html

Artcyclopedia: List of Artists

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/nationalities/Native_American.html

Wikipedia: List of Artists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Native_American_artists

Note: Wikipedia can be a starting place, but the information found on Wikipedia always needs to be verified because anyone can contribute. Always check your online research with two or more other sources.

Black Hawk (one example)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hawk_%28artist%29

Black Hawk (following a wiki link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledger_Art

Black Hawk (viewing art within an educational site)

https://plainsledgerart.org/plates/index/4

Pacific Northwest Peoples

(Google ArtsandCulture site)

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/ogKCBqM_vlZQLg

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES >

Aborigine

(Australia, Polynesia, Oceania)

National Gallery of Australia: General

http://nga.gov.au/Visiting/

National Gallery of Australia: Collections:

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art

http://nga.gov.au/Collections/ATSI/

Saami

(Northern Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia)

Work in progress

http://www.sacredland.org/lands-of-the-sami/

http://saamiblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/reinbeitekommisjonen-1913-old-photos.html

http://www.saamicouncil.net/?newsid=2693&deptid=1169&languageid=7&NEWS=1

http://www.sameslojdstiftelsen.com/?p=42

INDIA

National Museum in Chennai (Southeastern India)

http://www.chennaimuseum.org/

National Museum in New Delhi (North Central India)

http://www.nationalmuseumindia.gov.in/index.asp

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (Western India)

http://ngmaindia.gov.in/index.asp#

Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata (Eastern India)

http://museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/museum/vmh_kol