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Meret Oppenheim | Object (Luncheon in Fur)
Season 11
In 1936, Meret Oppenheim sat down in a cafe with Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. Picasso took note of Oppenheim's bracelet and commented that anything c…
1 year, 2 months ago
Frank Gehry | Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
Season 11
Modernists said, “form follows function” focusing on how people will use a space, but Gehry focuses on how people will react to the space. His goal i…
1 year, 2 months ago
Caravaggio | The Calling of Saint Matthew
Season 11
Michelangelo Merisi, born in 1571 amidst the darkness of the plague, would come to be known not by his christened name but by the name of his birthpl…
1 year, 2 months ago
Katsushika Hokusai | The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Season 11
Katsushika Hokusai is best known for The Great Wave off Kanagawa, part of his series of 36 Views of Mount Fuji. His family was in the mirror business…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ansel Adams | Monolith, the Face of Half Dome
Season 11
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was an iconic American photographer renowned for his dramatic black and white landscapes, particularly of Yosemite National P…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Alexander Mosaic in the House of Faun, Pompeii
Season 11
The Alexander Mosaic, also known as the Battle of Issus Mosaic, is a masterpiece of ancient Roman artistry that continues to captivate viewers with i…
1 year, 2 months ago
Shiva Nataraja |Shiva as Lord of the Dance
Season 11
In this depiction of Shiva we see the natural rhythms to everything in the cosmos. Birth and death, creation and destruction are simply phases all th…
1 year, 2 months ago
Diego Velazquez | Las Meninas
Season 11
Diego Velazques was one of the most significant painters of Spain's Golden Age in the 17th century. He was a master of both portraiture and genre pai…
1 year, 2 months ago
Henri Matisse | Goldfish
Henri Matisse was born in Northern France on December 31, 1869. His father was a successful grain merchant. In 1887, Henri was well on his way to a s…
1 year, 2 months ago
Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Earth's Creation
Season 11
Emily Kame Kngwarreye was born around 1910, a time when the Aboriginal people were not considered full citizens in their own country. Earth’s Creatio…
1 year, 2 months ago