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Paul Cezanne | Mont Sainte-Victoire
Season 11
Cezanne is widely celebrated today, but he struggled early on. He was rejected by Beaux Arts multiple times. He went back home to work at the bank fo…
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Kwakwaka’wakw artist | Eagle Transformation Mask
Season 11
The transformation mask is a carved and painted sculpture, a status symbol, a costume element and a simple machine all at once. Pulling the strings o…
1 year ago
Constantin Brâncuși | The Kiss & Bird in Space
Season 11
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor who made a significant impact on modern art through his abstract sculptures. His passion and dedication t…
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Gustav Klimt | The Kiss
Season 11
Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" is an iconic Art Nouveau painting, renowned for its use of gold leaf and intricate patterns. The painting depicts a couple …
1 year ago
Leonardo da Vinci | The Last Supper
Season 11
One Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous works is not housed in a museum. It is in the Convent of Santa Maria in Milan Italy. It seems totally fitting for…
1 year ago
Arts Madness 2025 and Xu Bing | A Book from the Sky
Season 11
Around 1040 CE Bi Sheng invented the first known moveable type system. Skipping ahead a few hundred years, the artist Xu Bing created Book from the S…
1 year ago
Artist Interview | Michael Weller
Season 10
Michael Weller is a painter based out of the UK known for his quiet and subtle paintings. He focuses on the shifts in color as he observes his subjec…
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Raku (encore)
Season 10
Raku bowls are humble. They are hand formed starting from a flat, circular base and coils built up around the sides. The process results in each piec…
1 year ago
Jeff Koons | Pink Panther
Season 10
Jeff Koons, born in 1955, displayed an early interest in art. As a teenager, he called Salvador Dali's hotel and arranged to meet the artist. He was …
1 year ago
Pencils (encore)
Season 10
For today's mini episode, I thought it might be nice to change things up a little bit and cover the history of a medium rather than a specific artwor…
1 year ago