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Gustave Eiffel | The Eiffel Tower
Season 9
The Eiffel Tower was by far the largest structure built for the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris. Eiffel was an entrepreneur and he had two engineers worki…
2 years, 1 month ago
Salvador Dali | The Persistence of Memory (encore)
Season 9
Salvador Dali's most famous painting is The Persistence of Memory from 1931. The painting is surprisingly small just 9 ½ by 13 inches or slightly lar…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jean-Honore Fragonard | The Swing
Season 9
Jean-Honore Fragonard’s painting, The Swing is one of those rare pieces that feels so immediately accessible it has begun to make the leap from the m…
2 years, 1 month ago
Johannes Vermeer | Woman Holding a Balance
Season 9
Vermeer created stunning works and he is widely celebrated as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. This painting, Woman Holding a Ba…
2 years, 1 month ago
Kwakwaka’wakw artist | Eagle Transformation Mask
Season 9
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…
2 years, 1 month ago
Auguste Rodin | The Burghers of Calais
Season 9
Today's mini-episode is about Auguste Rodin and his sculpture of The Burghers of Calais. The story behind the piece is an inspiring tale that defines…
2 years, 1 month ago
Robert Smithson | Spiral Jetty
Season 9
On the peninsula at Rozel Point on Utah’s Great Salt Lake, Smithson created his most famous monumental sculpture using over six thousand tons of blac…
2 years, 1 month ago
Vincent van Gogh | The Starry Night
Season 9
Vincent van Gogh saw little commercial success during his lifetime, but he loved art and he worked to forge relationships with other artists he could…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jean-Antoine Houdon | George Washington
Season 9
Jean-Antoine Houdon was one of the greatest neoclassical sculptors in the late 18th century. Shortly after the American Revolution, the governor of V…
2 years, 1 month ago
Piet Mondrian | Composition with Red Blue and Yellow
Season 9
Piet Mondrian is best known for painting primary colored squares and rectangles. For this episode, fellow art teacher, Jeff Arndt and I talked about …
2 years, 1 month ago