Tricia,
The Sackler and Freer Gallery in Washington DC has a wonderful collection of Asian art. I used many of their pieces in a Power Point demonstration I did in Scottsdale last March.
http://www.asia.si.edu/
Click on collections, then click on Japanese and Chinese art. They take my breath away like they did the French in the 19th century.
Your museums in Australia (my husband has been there twice, alas not me) are loaded with Asian Art. Also, I have found second hand bookstores are a treasure trove of those zillion dollar coffee table books on art, at a much friendlier price. I got some beauties on Asian art that way.
Carol,
Oh yippee, they asked me to return. I will be there in February when everything here is grey and cold.
Follow the link above, You can create a web museum of your own on the site.
The only decent book I found on color theory, through the ages up to the present is Arthur Pope's book "The Language of Drawing and Painting". It is an out of print book, but it still can be found online. He was an art professor at Harvard when a lot of the new color theories, like Munsell were being tossed around. That combined with his extensive knowledge of every form of art makes this a worthwhile book to read.
The Sackler also has great books to buy from their collections.
Linear Mode
