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Robert Smithson | Spiral Jetty
Season 6
Robert Smithson decided to make monumental sculptures using perhaps the world’s oldest material, the earth itself, but he used modern tools to shape …
3 years, 1 month ago
Katsushika Hokusai
Season 6
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…
3 years, 1 month ago
Wassily Kandinsky
Season 6
Wassily Kandinsky was an artist, teacher and art theorist in the early 20th century. His work was very influential in the development of modern, abst…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jackson Pollock
Season 6
In August of 1973, the Australian government bought a Jackson Pollock painting for $2 million. It was the highest price paid for work of an American …
3 years, 1 month ago
Hilma af Klint
Season 6
Hilma af Klint was a painter making abstract art years before men like Kandinsky and she was exploring automatic drawing long before the surrealists.…
3 years, 1 month ago
Diego Rivera
Season 2
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…
3 years, 1 month ago
Olowe of Ise
Season 6
The bulk of Olowe’s carvings seem to have been both decorative and functional artworks for the Yoruba kings and prominent families. One of his celebr…
3 years, 1 month ago
Christo and Jeanne Claude
Season 6
Christo and Jeanne Claude are best known for their monumental works using fabric to transform public spaces. These massive works outside of the museu…
3 years, 1 month ago
Frank Lloyd Wright
Season 6
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of America's most famous and influential architects. He famously said, "No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. …
3 years, 1 month ago
Ai Weiwei
Season 6
Ai Weiwei is possibly the most interesting man in the world. He is not only a famous contemporary artist. He was a top rated blackjack player, a poli…
3 years, 1 month ago