Download 35,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More

As a young amateur painter and future art school dropout, I frequently found myself haunted by the faces of two artists, that famously odd couple from my favorite art history novelization—and Kirk Douglas role and Iggy Pop song—Lust for Life. Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, above and below respectively, the tormented Dutch fanatic and burly French bully—how, I still wonder, could such a pair have ever co-existed, however briefly? How could such beautifully skewed visions of life have existed at all? Van Gogh and Gaugin’s several self-portraits still inspire wonder. My younger self had the luxury of seeing these particular two up close and in person at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC: Van Gogh’s gaunt and piercing visage, Gauguin’s sneering self-parody. There you’ll find works by another obsessive Dutch self-portraitist, Rembrandt van Rijn, such as the lush 1659 painting below. Browse the various collections, including one devoted to self-portraits. Related Content:

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35 000 peintures à télécharger gratuitement (et légalement) 35 000 tableaux de grands maîtres en format numérique haute définition. C'est ce que vous pouvez télécharger sur le site de la National Gallery of Art de Washington DC, rapporte OpenCulture.com. Au menu, des Van Gogh, des Gauguin, des Rembrandt, des impressionnistes comme Monet et ses nénuphars, Manet, Cézanne et ses maisons de Provence, Degas et ses danseuses, Renoir etc. "Les utilisateurs peuvent télécharger et utiliser gratuitement et légalement, sans limite, toutes les images disponibles sans demander l'autorisation de la Gallery", peut-on lire sur le site web, qui explique que toutes ces oeuvres sont "libres de droit", c'est-à-dire "dans le domaine public", si on traduit en droit français. Pour ce faire, plusieurs solutions: se rendre dans la partie "collections" -galerie française, autoportrait, musique...- ou encore directement dans le moteur de recherche si vous chercher une oeuvre ou un artiste en particulier. >> Voir aussi: les images les plus recherchées

Google Puts Over 57,000 Works of Art on the Web In its art preservationist wing, the Cultural Institute, Google houses an enormous digital collection of artwork spanning centuries and continents in what it calls the Art Project. Google’s collection, writes Drue Kataoka at Wired, is part of a “big deal […] it signals a broader, emerging ‘open content’ art movement.” “Besides the Getty,” Kataoka notes, this movement to digitize fine art collections includes efforts by “Los Angeles’ LACMA… as well as D.C.’s National Gallery of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. And Google. In the Art Project, you can stroll on over to Portugal’s Museu do Caramulo, for example, which Google describes as “an unusual museum in a small town” off the beaten path. Google’s collection has greatly expanded since its comparatively modest 2011 roll-out. Related Content: The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix

Je Lis Libre des livres gratuits pour les 10 à 14 ans ReadingPhoto Vince Garcia, mars 2010 Coordination Mathias Treffot Des livres que tu peux télécharger, lire, échanger, utiliser pour tout ce qu'il te plaira. Il ne s'agit pas de livres récents, car nous n'avons le droit de te proposer ici que des auteurs morts depuis plus de 70 ans. Chaque livre est accompagné de compléments et de bonus comme des cartes, des liens vers des sites web et, souvent, des versions sonores au format mp3 ou des films : essaye donc les Trois Mousquetaires en podcast. En plus des livres juste pour le plaisir, tu trouveras des livres utiles, au programme des classes de collège. Juste pour le plaisir Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, de Jules Verne Gravure Henri Théophile Hildibrand (1870) Prêt pour l'aventure ? Voyages extraordinaires De la lune au fond des océans, romans d'aventure et d'exploration. Contes, légendes et fantaisie Les fées et les lutins te souhaitent la bienvenue. Chevaliers, Sorciers, Princesses et Mousquetaires Es-tu prêt pour l'aventure ? Theater

Mains So everybody knows that the hands and the fingers are one of the hardest things to draw. So here is a personal collection of different hand references, hope to enjoy it and never stop practice. Hogarth hand poses from Iron Giant (middle of page) Mickey Mouse Hand Model Sheet by Les Clark ca. 1932 Merlin hand poses via Deja View Hand drawing tut by uchuucacahuate on deviantart. Excellent hand tutorial by alexds1 on deviantart.com Mr. Useful collection of hand poses by Chrissy Fellmeth Collection of female hand poses by artrush73′s Study of the hand in minimal style The Rijksmuseum Puts 125,000 Dutch Masterpieces Online, and Lets You Remix Its Art The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is one of the grand European museums. Home to many of the Dutch masters (Rembrandt’s Night Watch, which seems to glow from its center, and Vermeer’s Milkmaid, to name just a few), the museum is located on the city’s Museumplein, surrounded by the smaller Vincent Van Gogh museum and modern Stedelijk. All those masterpieces are now available for close-up view online at the Rijksmuseum’s digitized collection. But the Dutch are a whimsical people, so it seems right that, in digitizing its collection, the museum went a step further than further. By visiting the museum’s Rijksstudio, art lovers can create their own “sets” of Rijksmuseum works. All of this can be done with the blessings and support of the museum, which provides links to sites that offer various forms of printing on demand. What better way to make the collection accessible to the public? Related Content: Rembrandt’s Facebook Timeline Google “Art Project” Brings Great Paintings & Museums to You

Les Contes de Perrault Étude de proportions du corps debout, vu de face, de profil et de trois-quarts Étude de proportions Une des meilleures façons d’apprendre à dessiner le corps est d’étudier la même pose vue de divers angles. Choisissez pour commencer une pose très simple dans laquelle l’ensemble du corps est visible. Si vous travaillez avec un modèle, déplacez-vous entre chaque dessin d’un angle de 30 à 45 degrés autour du modèle, à moins que le modèle lui-même soit en mesure de pivoter de quelques degrés sans changer sa pose. Donnez-vous des repères au moyen d’une série de lignes horizontales pour mieux comprendre les changements de forme selon l’angle de vue. Cet exercice est particulièrement utile pour les sculpteurs qui doivent sans cesse visualiser la pose en trois dimensions. Il existe certains livres de référence artistique dans lesquels les poses sont systématiquement photographiées à partir d’une grande variété d’angles. Mise en valeur et rendu des ombres Ci-dessous, la mise en valeur des trois dessins de l’étude de proportions.

The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix Earlier this week, Oxford's Bodleian Library announced that it had digitized a 550 year old copy of the Gutenberg Bible along with a number of other ancient bibles, some of them quite beautiful. Not to be outdone, the British Library came out with its own announcement on Thursday: We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. The librarians behind the project freely admit that they don't exactly have a great handle on the images in the collection. You can jump into the entire collection here, or view a set of highlights here. To learn more about this British Library initiative, read this other Open Culture post which takes a deeper dive into the image collection. Related Content: The Rijksmuseum Puts 125,000 Dutch Masterpieces Online, and Lets You Remix Its Art The Getty Puts 4600 Art Images Into the Public Domain (and There’s More to Come) The Digital Public Library of America Launches Today, Opening Up Knowledge for All

Musique libre de droit - Music Screen The Getty Adds Another 77,000 Images to its Open Content Archive Last summer we told you that the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content Program by taking 4600 high-resolution images from the Getty collections, putting them into the public domain, and making them freely available in digital format. We also made it clear — there would be more to come. Yesterday, the Getty made good on that promise, adding another 77,000 images to the Open Content archive. The Getty also dropped into the archive another 4,930 images of European and American tapestries dating from the late 15th through the late 18th centuries. All images in the Getty Open Content program — now 87,000 in total — can be downloaded and used without charge or permission, regardless of whether you’re a scholar, artist, art lover or entrepreneur. You can start exploring the complete collection by visiting the Getty Search Gateway. For more information on the Open Content program, please visit this page. Related Content: