ART & SYMBOLS

Women Beyond Borders

http://www.womenbeyondborders.org/main.htm

Most of you reading this will know something of the symbolic value of an empty box – full of possibilities and hope.  This is a cross-cultural exhibition of glorious boxes created by women artists from over 30 countries.   Its purpose is to “honor women’s visions and voices.” A grassroots project begun in California, it has brought women from many different cultures closer.     

Sacred Places, Symbols & Shapes

http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/shapes.html

This site is dedicated to exploring ”how the sacred is embodied in art and in architecture.”  Full of resources and links for further research.

Mark Harden’s Artchive Artchive

http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm

Contains thousands of high quality images of paintings.  Also gives the provenance of each work and a cogent summary of the artist’s life and work.  Allows search by name of artist or category.  In addition, if you sign up as a patron ($55) you can receive a free CD of all the artwork on the site.  For a limited time they are giving away two CD’s for the price of one.   

Olga’s Gallery

http://www.abcgallery.com/

Thousands of images.  You can search for art by name of artist or country.  Also gives many links to other art sites.

Symbols from the Middle East

http://www.shira.net/symbols.htm

This site has been created by a woman named Shira who has great love and appreciation for Middle Eastern traditions.  The site contains a lot of information about symbols and as well as links to several other sites.  

Middle Eastern Links by Eva Cernik

http://home.earthlink.net/~evacernik/links.htm

Broad-based, eclectic assortment of links compiled by the dancer Eva Cernik.  (See Music & Dance links, below.).