Art Is Everywhere

Everywhere there is Art. We pass art in different forms every day. Billboards, graffiti, statues, and sculptures are all forms of art. With a little investigation work one can find that art has a place within every town. Not only that, but is found so easily on the web and at libraries. There are many venues that exist in my own art world/area that are publicly displayed. Many of these venues let artists, student, children, adults, and the community to view such imagery. The places I investigated that reflected those values are the ABC Gallery, the Light, Space, and Time Gallery, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Banana Factory, and The Monsoon Gallery.
The first place I visited was an online art gallery. The website’s URL is http://www.abcgallery.com. This website has the largest and most comprehensive online collections in the world! They have over 10,000 works of art and their collection is going daily. Their mission is dedicated to bring quality information about artists and their artwork form all around the world (Para 2). The website’s creators, Olga and Helen Mataev and Yuri and Sergey Mataev all corresponded together to help children learn the history of painting, religion, and literature. It has become a very popular website among college teachers and students, and among art lovers. The webpage came into existences over 8 years ago. The size of the project and its popularity with web users was never expected to become this large from a small startup art themed webpage (Para 2).
They have a range of artist. The top 20 are Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Claude Monet, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt van Rijn, Edgar Degas, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Paul Gauguin, Alphonse Mucha, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Cezanne, Hieronymus Bosch, Diego Velázquez, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Raphael, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Caravaggio (Para 1). The Artist that caught my eye while exploring the webpage was