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Michelangelo | The Sistine Chapel Ceiling (encore)
Season 7
This episode gives a brief overview of the life of Michelangelo, one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, and one of his most famous w…
2 years, 3 months ago
Pencils
Season 7
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…
2 years, 3 months ago
Xu Bing | A Book from the Sky
Season 7
Skipping ahead a few hundred years, the artist Xu Bing created Book from the Sky as a monumental print. It is brobably among the most ambitious, labo…
2 years, 3 months ago
Frank Gehry | Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
Season 5
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…
2 years, 3 months ago
Arthur Boyd | Nebuchadnezzar on Fire Falling over a Waterfall (encore)
Season 7
This episode is about Arthur Boyd the Australian painter known for his use of symbols from mythology to express his philosophical views.
My guest this…
2 years, 3 months ago
Diego Rivera (encore)
Season 7
Today Diego Rivera is less of a household name than his wife Frida Kahlo, but in the early 20th century, he was the more established artist. Rivera w…
2 years, 3 months ago
Helen Frankenthaler | The Bay
Season 7
The Bay was painted in 1963 as Frankenthaler had refined her soak and stain process. While Mountains and Sea was made with diluted oil paints, The Ba…
2 years, 3 months ago
Olympic Medals in Art (Encore)
Season 7
Few people know this, but Art used to be an Olympic event. Starting in the 1912 games, artists could win Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals in fi…
2 years, 3 months ago
Maria and Julian Martinez | Black on Black Pottery
Season 7
Maria Martinez belonged to the Tewa-speaking Pueblo people, known for their rich artistic heritage. Pottery-making was deeply rooted in Puebloan cult…
2 years, 4 months ago
Georges Seurat | A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (encore)
Season 7
In 1894, George Seurat began going out to an idyllic little island away from the urban center of Paris. It was a place where people of various classe…
2 years, 4 months ago