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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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months ago
Yves Klein | Leap Into the Void
Season 7
This week we are looking at Yves Klein and his famous photograph, Leap Into the Void, from 1960. Klein had a short but highly influential career as h…
2 years, 6 months ago
Katsushika Hokusai | The Great Wave Off of Kanagawa (encore)
Season 7
Katsushika Hokusai is best known for The Great Wave Off of Kanagawa, part of his series of 36 Views of Mount Fuji. His family was in the mirror busin…
2 years, 6 months ago
Roberto Matta | The Earth is a Man
Season 7
Roberto Matta was a Chilean born artist whose life and work transcended boundaries. He was always looking to explore new ideas, push his work further…
2 years, 7 months ago
Shiva Nataraja | Shiva the Lord of the Dance
Season 7
In this depiction of Shiva we see the natural rhythms to everything in the cosmos. Birth and death, creation and destruction are symply phases all th…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Mona Lisa Vanishes
Season 7
Lisa Gherardini was not born to fame and fortune. In fact, her family had fallen on hard times as wars laid waste to their land. She was an unlikely …
2 years, 7 months ago