The Art Story website has to be one of my favorite websites that thoroughly explains modern movements that helped shape art around the United States. They have a clear goal and vision of: “a world where the ideas and aspirations behind the wondrous art are accessible to anyone to explore and be inspired by.” They want this to be their main goal, because so often the people who are apart of the institutions of the Art world, do not take the time to educate people who do not know a lot about modern art (which is a large majority of Americans, and the world).
Throughout the website the authors and writers who work for the Art Story identify key movements and summarize the movements, have background context, and identify which artists were influential in that movement during it’s time. They even have large timelines that identify when the movements happened, or even when different sculptures happen that is known by the masses.
The creators of the website have made it clear and easy to navigate through on desktop and even mobile. This is important to be able to access it on mobile as it allows you to take The Art Story to art museums and learn more about artists and the time periods that people walk through at the museums. Because so often, viewers are not able to fully grasp the concepts behind particular art pieces, because they want to know more about a piece. This website allows the viewers to know more about the piece, and even continue to look and search around more easily for different artists that they may recognize.
This website is for the masses, and for the educated – because truly we can all continue to learn more about something that we may not fully understand.
You can view the site here: http://www.theartstory.org/