Art 105 - Two Dimensional Design - Research Resources

NOTE: This is a short list of resources that may support your research. It is not an inclusive list of resources to support art interpretation.

Feldman's Framework for Critical Art Analysis



Arts & Culture Resources -- Including Period History

Gale OneFile: Fine Arts

Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.


SmartHistory: The Center for Public Art History

The Smart History Free online art history resource "has become the most visited art history resource in the world." Use the tabs under the "For Learning" section to search time periods or use the search bar to search specific authors or works of art.


Art in Context: Art Periods Discussed

Use links in middle of the page under the section labeled "Reviewing the Timeline of the Different Art Periods" for detailed discussion of different periods in art history. The website is als searchable by Artist and Title of artwork.


Identify this Art : Simplified Timeline of Art History

Simple descriptions and examples of art from different time periods. (Not as in-depth as other resources but is searchable and may be considered relevant for this type of project.)


Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies

Access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.


Pop Culture Universe

An irresistible yet authoritative online resource that covers popular culture in America, both past and present—in a package as dynamic as the topic it covers.


General Resources for Period History

Gale in Context: High School

Full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted website


ABC-CLIO Databases

Authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources on the most enduring, significant, and timely issues


Citing sources (in finished essay)
Note that research in art and the fine arts is cited using a variety of citation styles depending upon specific work and publication.

Chicago Style is often used in fine arts at the graduate and post-graduate academic levels but MLA format is acceptable, and much easier to use, for this research.

Manual citation building and use of other citation generators is allowed, but you are responsible for citations, NoodleTools is an exceptional tool for proper citation building.

Noodle Tools

Citation generator and Works Cited development tool