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This Site on The Web

The Web is not unlike Platonic world of ideas. The distance between pages (measured in clicks) is determined not by the geographical location of servers, but by associative proximity. If you can read Russian, see my article where the dimension of this world is calculated (it turns out to be aproximately 7). Unconstrained by the rigid 3D Euclidian metrics of our physical space, a Web surfer glides freely over the vast stretches of the Platonic world.

Lyrics aside, this is a well-connected site, meaning there are lots of links to be listed here. Alta Vista can find dozens of sites pointing to us, and I'll only list those that are especially interesting or those that explicitly requested it (or both).

Web Rings

Art Databases and Indexes

Sites where Maria's images are used

Oil Painters of the World

With so much art on the Web (Yahoo lists over 2000 individual artists), we're definitely lacking good indices. Plain link lists abound, but are of little use, comprehensive databases are few and far in between, and focused thematic directories are almost non-existent. This is an attempt at creating a useful directory. To be focused, we list only contemporary oil painters with their own Web sites (or distinct sub-sites within a gallery). To give everybody equal exposure, we present the list in a random order, which is new every time you reload the page, and show two random images at the top. To minimize guesswork, we supply descriptive annotations.

Dmitrii Manin, maintainer