ARTstor Workshop: Get Started

In this hands-on workshop, participants will find out how to use ARTstor images in instruction, handouts, presentations, publications and other educational and scholarly activities.

Workshop Format

This workshop will be about one hour in length. Each topic will include

• Information: about 10 minutes of demonstration and discussion
• Hands-on exercise: 10 minutes to complete an activity related to the demo

Outline

1. Finding images in the ARTstor database
2. Image analysis: tools for display and analysis
   • Display options
   • Image viewer tools
   • Side - by - side comparisons
3. Techniques for sharing images
4. Permitted uses of ARTstor images

A selection of artists included in ARTstor:

• Umberto Boccioni
• Alexander Calder
• Paul Cézanne
• Marc Chagall
• Giorgio de Chirico
• Salvador Dalí'
• Marcel Duchamp
• Paul Gauguin
• Natalia Goncharova
• Frida Kahlo
• Georgia O'Keeffe
• Paul Klee
• Henri Matisse
• Piet Mondrian
• Claude Monet
• Pablo Picasso
• Jackson Pollock
• Vincent van Gogh
• Andy Warhol

ARTstor created sixteen object classification terms and applied them all to the image records:

• Architecture and City Planning (208872)
• Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design (64838)
• Drawings and Watercolors (35377)
• Fashion, Costume and Jewelry (14751)
• Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art (576)
• Garden and Landscape (7553)
• Graphic Design and Illustration (7254)
• Humanities and Social Sciences (36481)
• Manuscripts and Manuscript Illuminations (104310)
• Maps, Charts and Graphs (3310)
• Paintings (121819)
• Performing Arts (including Performance Art) (4201)
• Photographs (163190)
• Prints (81225)
• Science, Technology and Industry (2016)
• Sculpture and Installations (87124)

Based on the images, the ARTstor collection shows strengths in these topics…

• African-American Studies
• American Studies
• Anthropology
• Architecture & Architectural History
• Asian Studies
• Classical Studies
• Design & Decorative Studies
• Foreign Languages and Literature
• Literacy Studies
• Maps, Graphs & Charts
• Medieval Studies
• Middle Eastern Studies
• Music History
• Native American Studies
• Photography
• Religious Studies
• Renaissance Studies
• Theater & Dance
• Women’s Studies

To find out more about these collections, see ARTstor's collections by topic overview.

Stephanie Mutch, Liaison Librarian