Access to the Web means finding millions of resources. How does anyone choose what to review and even more, what to use? Most often, finding a trusted source that provides thoughtful recommendations makes all the difference. In this case, the sites listed are to use for art and music and are free from the federal government.

In 1997, more than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group to make hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence web site (FREE). (http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html). The web sites listed below are excerpted with permission.

Here are web sites for teaching art and music.

Tour: Vincent van Gogh
provides a brief overview van Gogh's life and looks at seven
of his paintings.  (National Gallery of Art)
http://www.free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=2128

J.M.W. Turner
features nine paintings by English Romantic landscape artist William Turner (1775-1851).  The leading British artist of his era, Turner transformed the genre of landscape painting.  He was known as "the painter of light" because of his startling use of light and color. Over six decades, he produced more than 20,000 oils, watercolors, and drawings.  He achieved success throughout his career, inspired generations of artists, and is considered a predecessor of the impressionists.  (National Gallery of Art)                                                      http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1967

Photomuse
is a resource for scholarship in the history of photography. Search for photos by title, date, description, photographer, country, and others.  Discover the chronology of developments in photography, beginning with announcement on January 7, 1839, at the French Academy of Science in Paris that Louis- Jacques-Mande Daguerre had invented the daguerreotype. (Institute of Museum and Library Services)               http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1962

Eugene Boudin
looks at the life and works of Eugene Boudin (1824-1898), a French artist who painted seascapes, beach scenes, and landscapes.  Note how his paintings capture the light on water  and clouds.  See why another great artist called Boudin "king of the skies."  (National Gallery of Art)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1957

Interact
offers interactive explorations of American art. See a  slideshow on Joseph Cornell or "angels in American art." Visit an artist's studio.  Learn what it takes to restore a valuable painting.  Discover clues to the story behind "The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane" and other paintings. Listen to lectures by art critics or sculptor Maya Lin.  Hear a roundtable of artists discussing their craft.  (American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution) 
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1959

Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance Florence
celebrates the first fully realized Renaissance works of art: 15th century statues at the church of Orsanmichele in Florence. They combine the spiritual expressiveness of the Middle Ages with a level of realism and individuality not seen in Western art since antiquity.  With these works, the new and revolutionary Renaissance style was born.  (National Gallery of Art)    
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1955

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945
looks at surrealism, war, and other themes in photography after World War I, when it spread as form of art and a symbol  of modernity across Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, and Poland.  (National Gallery of Art)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1946

Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
examines a phase of the Renaissance in Venice when three great  masters were working side by side (1500 to 1530). Bellini,    Giorgione, Titian and their contemporaries influenced European art for centuries.  Learn about their innovations.  Examine how they used sacred images and stories, allegories and mythologies, and more.  (National Gallery of Art)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1937

BRUSHster
lets you paint on the web.  More than 40 brushes and textures are offered with a full palette of colors and effects that  blur, ripple, and fragment your designs.  Click "auto" to see the computer generate screen designs.  (National Gallery of Art)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1936

Dancer's Journal: Learning to Perform the Dances of Martha Graham
shows scrapbook items of a dancer learning dances of Martha Graham.  Hear music and see video clips, including Graham herself perform movements from "Lamentation."  Other featured works include "Appalachian Spring," "Diversion of Angels," and "Errand into the Maze." (Artsedge, Multiple Agencies)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1901

Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings
presents 14 drawings from one of the world's finest private collections of old master and modern European drawings (1500 -1889).  (National Gallery of Art)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1903