Artwhat is a tumblr resource run by a group of high school and college level students who like art history in varying degrees. Instead of mimicking an online encyclopedia (like Wikipedia), Artwhat is geared toward being a learning and study tool for fellow students. The goal is for this tumblr to be a continuously evolving database, where maintainers’ submissions and visitors’ additions grow to meet the needs of others and encourages collaborative learning.

artwhat.

during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

Hobo theme by Mike Ballan with minor edits by Jess