Art Pieces To Study

Many homeschoolers like to do art studies and with means perhaps acquiring prints to use for those studies.  Many copyright conscious homeschoolers will not just go to google to print out images.  They don't do that because they want to honor copyrights. Plus many are also bloggers and look for ways to acquire images for their blogs.

Well, today I learned that the Art Institute of Chicago has released over 50,000 images of many artworks and pieces to the public domain and have assigned them the CC0 public domain designation. This designation means those images can be used for commercial and non-commercial reasons for free with no additional permission from the museum.  They do have some rules to follow, but if you are familiar with creative commons it seems to be the typical rules.

Images such as these:

Georges Seurat. A Sunday On La Grande Jatte. 1884 AIC

Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street; Rainy Day. 1877 AIC

Now the tricky and tedious part. There as far as I can tell no clear and easy way to access the 50,000 images that are now in the public domain. The only thing you can do is search the collection and when you click on an image that qualifies you will see the download option on the right hand lower corner of the image and CC0 Public Domain Designation on the left hand lower corner of the image.

I tried to filter the searches for just CC0 Public Domain Designation, but that didn't seem to work.  If you find a way to filter the collection to show only images that are CC0 Public Domain Designation please let me know. Now, off to explore the collection and thinking perhaps an art study will be in our future or images for the blog. The possibilities are endless.

EDIT ADD: So if you click on filter you can then select public domain. I don't know why I didn't see that before. :)

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