Arted.

Make time
for art.

Look at art and know what you’re seeing.

Meet Arted

That tiny detail has a story. Spend a few minutes with Arted to discover the stories behind the art that catches your eye.

Discover how people lived, what they believed, and why they made what they made. See more on your next museum visit, and in the art around you every day.

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A closer look
changes things.

Sometimes a colour or a small object in a painting gives you a way into the whole work.

Look closer

Find out how a work was made and what it meant to the people who first saw it. Each card gives you something to look for.

Stay with a work that catches your eye, read more, or save it for another day.

Painting, print, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and photography.

Japanese art · Print · 20 sec

The artist drew it. Somebody else cut it, and somebody else printed it.

Ancient Egypt · Object · 20 sec

Egyptian blue was mixed in a workshop, not dug out of the ground.

The Dutch Golden Age · Painting · 20 sec

Painters from Utrecht brought Caravaggio's dramatic lighting home from Rome.

Myth and religion · Sculpture · 20 sec

You can tell the saints apart by what they are holding.

A few things to discover

Look closer

Where does the light come from?

Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher. Light enters through a window on the left. Johannes Vermeer, A Maid Asleep. Light from the left falls across a woman and a patterned tablecloth.

Follow the light across both paintings. Once you notice it, you’ll know where to look next time.

Johannes Vermeer · Public domain (CC0)

Start seeing
the connections.

Connections

Arted brings ideas back through different works. You start recognising a familiar light or a symbol you’ve seen before.

What you notice in one painting stays with you when you meet the next. A new work gives you another way to understand an idea you already know.

Keep what you learn.

An occasional question helps you remember what you have discovered, so more of it stays with you when you next look at art.

Your progress

  1. New
  2. Exploring
  3. Recall questions unlock the next levels
  4. Familiar
  5. Strong
  6. Mastered

Your progress shows what you have explored and what you can remember. Come back to an idea and see how much has stayed with you.

Good taste
takes time.

Your taste grows with the art you spend time with. Follow a favourite subject, try something unfamiliar, and find out what moves you.

Ways to explore

Places & eras
Ancient Egypt to the Dutch Golden Age
Materials & making
Painting, ceramics, textiles and more
Stories & symbols
Myths, belief and everyday life

There are many ways into art. Explore cultures, styles and subjects at your own pace. Each work links to its source, so you can keep looking.

Art is a big place.
Follow what pulls you in.

Move through artists, places, materials and ideas. Arted keeps opening new paths through the collection.

A collection with room to wander

We keep growing our art library, adding more artists, regions and ways to see art.

  • Places

    Art begins somewhere.

  • Forms

    Made by hand, shaped in many ways.

  • Ideas

    The stories art carries with it.

Your feed, shaped by you

Follow what interests you.

Choose a few starting points. As you read, save and pass things by, Arted gets better at finding a next step that suits you.

Artwork of the day

One work for everyone.

A new artwork appears each day. It is a shared place to begin, whether you have five minutes or an hour.

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