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Monday, 5 August 2013

Art Galleries Online

ART GALLARY ONLINE BIOGRAPHY

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There are a number of online art catalogues and galleries that have been developed independently of the support of any individual museum. Many of these, like American Art Gallery, are attempts to develop galleries of artwork that are encyclopedic or historical in focus, while others are commercial efforts to sell the work of contemporary artists.A limited number of such sites have independent importance in the art world. The large auction houses, such as Sotheby's and Christie's maintain large online databases of art which they have auctioned or are auctioning. Bridgeman Art Library serves as a central source of reproductions of artwork, with access limited to museums, art dealers and other professionals or professional organizations.There are also online galleries that have been developed by a collaboration of museums and galleries that are more interested with the categorization of art. They are interested in the potential use of folksonomy within museums and the requirements for post-processing of terms that have been gathered, both to test their utility and to deploy them in useful ways.The steve.museum is one example of a site that is experimenting with this collaborative philosophy. The participating institutions include the Guggenheim Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Most art museums have only limited online collections, but a few museums, as well as some libraries and government agencies, have developed substantial online catalogues. Museums, libraries and government agencies with substantial online collections of prints, photographs, and other works on paper include:Library of Congress, prints (C19 on) and photographs collection (several million entries).The British Museum has 2,045,291 objects available online, of which 715,184 have one or more images (as at August 2011).Museums, libraries and government agencies with substantial online collections with more focus on paintings and sculpture include:Boston Museum of Fine Arts, with over 330,000 works, most with images. Good for prints.Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, with over 85,000 worksHarvard Art Museums, with over 81,000 works, about half of which have very low resolution images.Louvre, with over 80,000 works in various databases, with a large number of images, as well as another 140,000 drawings.National Gallery of Art, with over 108,000 works catalogued, though with only 6,000 images.(French) The Mona Lisa Database of French Museums — Joconde *(from the French Ministry of Culture)The argument states that certain art museums are aimed at perpetuating aristocratic and upper class ideals of taste and excludes segments of society without the social opportunities to develop such interest. The fine arts thus perpetuate social inequality by creating divisions between different social groups. This argument also ties in with the Marxist theory of mystification and elite culture.