Arts
You may have visited Tibet, but I doubt you saw as many art works as are beautifully displayed here at Himalayan Art. Images of paintings and sculpture have been gathered from museums and private collections around the world. Technically advanced, the site allows you to zoom in on a detail without loss of clarity. (Net Surfer Digest)
Rooms with a View is an extensive collection of fractal art, sometimes coupled with penetrating poetry. The author, Terry Wright, recently (9/01) suffered a catastrophic PC crash and lost nearly all the content (no backup?) but is leaving his wonderful website in place anyway. (Net Surfer Digest)
Japanese art? Contemporary Japanese art? Smoky Monkeys will certainly impress you with its rich, almost baroque representations of human and near human figures with strangely Western faces. Hurry on over to this striking gallery of images where the impeccable draftsmanship alone is surely worthy of acknowledgement as Fine Art. (David Henry)
The Guggenheim Museum is in New York, right? Right, but it also has sister museums in Berlin, Bilbao, Venice and even Las Vegas. Each one is a stunning architectural statement, thanks to the Guggenheim Foundation. You can visit each of the five museums and their mostly modern art and sculpture. Don’t miss the elegant Venice one where the remarkable Peggy Guggenheim (bio on the site) lived in the Palazzo dei Leoni and subsequently established it as the Venice museum. (Net Surfer Digest)
Another group of artists exploring the possibilities of the internet as a medium can be found at Paper Veins. Here you can find Clones R Us, Mouse Dance, The First Male Pregnancy and other remarkable artistic statements on several floors of the Paper Veins Museum of Art. The site is also an impressive example of creativity in unorthodox web design. (Net Surfer Digest)
The images of obscure cities on this fantasy site are so well executed and beautiful that it’s hard to believe they’re Web graphics. The site relies heavily on JavaScript and Shockwave Flash. The content is a series of images of older European-style cities that are nothing at all what they seem to be at first glance. The details are interesting, but the sheer overwhelming beauty of the art is the real reason to visit Tram 81. (Netsurfer Digest)
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