fogie -

If you go to the link for the ARC main site, you can find their "Philosophy" page, and the main page itself probably has enough explanation. The site is intended to promote the "old-fashined" kind of art that most "common folk" can enjoy, and deliberately does not display the "clique" stuff that has to be explained with a lot of "psychobabble" before the agents can palm it off on overly rich pseudo-intellectuals. (My own very rough summary.)

There are other places for "modern school(s)" of art. If you use the ArtCyclopedia link above, and put "Dali" into the artist search, it will give you links to the 5 or 6 museums that post web images of their own Dali works, and about 11 "image galleries" that have representative works. The "TigerTail" and "Annenberg" galleries are a couple that I'm familiar with and that are relatively easy to get into, although I haven't looked recently at what they have posted for Dali.

I'll have to confess that my original post didn't answer gaber too well. Sorting the ARC artsit list by "nationality," I find that the few "Irish" artists all seem to have favored going to Rome and painting artifacts (with the exception of one or two who seem to have painted nothing but sheep). Does anyone know of an artist who painted "scenes of Ireland?"

A Google image search does bring up some pretty good stuff on the Irish+castle search - mostly photographs, which are, of course, an ideal format for what was wanted. (I particularly liked the "editorial" on the Irish castle that was transported to the US and semi-erected here.)

Since this thread has indicated some interest in image searches, I'm curious to know how many people have installed the "Google Search Bar," and whether anyone would venture opinions on whether it's really helpful. (Or maybe we just need a permathread on "How to Google.")

John