TED-Ed
TED-ED: What is abstract expressionism? - Sarah Rosenthal
If you visit a museum with a collection of modern and contemporary art, you're likely to see works that sometimes elicit the response, _My cat could make that, so how is it art?" But is it true? Could anyone create one of Jackson...
The Art Assignment
The Case for Minimalism | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
You've probably seen a few cubes sitting in an art gallery and questioned why they were there. How could cubes be important? How did we get here? This is the case for Minimalism.
The Art Assignment
Art Trip: London | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
For our second international art trip, we travel to London during Frieze Art Fair. We saw a lot of art! Almost too much.
Curated Video
New York: Great Art Cities Explained
Abstract Expressionism would emerge from a post-war mood of anxiety and trauma. These were artists who, like the surrealists before them had a profound interest in the unconscious mind. They produced work that may have been abstract but...
Amor Sciendi
All Art Is Political: Even Rothko
An analsysis of how art can be used for politics focusing on the art work of Mark Rothko
Curated Video
Yayoi Kusama: Great art Explained
Yayoi Kusama lives in a psychiatric institution, which she entered voluntarily in 1977. She is now in her nineties and still works every single day. Known for her repeated dot patterns, her work has been marked with obsessiveness and a...
Amor Sciendi
Four Darks on Red: Abstract Expressionism
We discuss the importance of Abstract Expressionist art in the 1950's through Rothko's Four Darks on Red.
The Art Assignment
The Case for Jackson Pollock | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
You’ve heard of Jackson Pollock and know of his infamous “drip paintings,” but what is it that you’re supposed to do when you look at his work today? Why did it cause shockwaves in 1947, and what does it mean now? We explore the life,...
Makematic
Abstract Expressionism
By showing people that art can be used to express what we feel, rather than what we see, Abstract Expressionism changed how we define what art is.
The School of Life
Art/Architecture - Cy Twombly
"What does this work feel like?" Ah, that according to the narrator of The School of Life episode is the question viewers should ask themselves when observing Twombly's paintings and other works of abstract art.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ab Ex Ny: Mo Ma and Abstract Expressionism
Take the online course Modern and Contemporary Art: 1945-1989 to find out what happens next or experiment with Abstract Expressionist painting techniques in the online course, Materials and Techniques of Postwar painting.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Painting Techniques of Franz Kline
In this video [3:55] learn how Franz Kline turned small sketches done on the pages of a phone book into large, gestural abstractions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Franz Kline
This video [3:11] discusses the importance of the two factors of scale and of gesture in abstract expressionism that are exemplified in the paintings of Franz Kline. His paintings are usually with a white background and then either only...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Painting Techniques of Mark Rothko
In this video [3:32] explore the complex veils of color that form Mark Rothko's abstract paintings.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock
In this video [4:01] learn about the drip-style painting techniques of one of Jackson Pollock, one of America's most iconic and influential painters.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ab Ex Ny: Mo Ma and Abstract Expressionism
In this video [5:13] this exhibition assembles more than 200 works of Abstract Expressionism art made honest artists in the 40s 50s and 60s; the collection of is located in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mark Rothko
In this video [5:37] explore the power of abstraction through Mark Rothko's luminous and introspective paintings. what you have is quiet contemplation, a mood of deep immersion in color. In a Rothko painting, you have three or four zones...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Jackson Pollock
This video [5:13] discusses abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock, who departed from the idea of using a brush and making brush strokes to paint a scene -- and instead, with the wooden tip of the brush, either fling or drip or spread...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Painting Techniques of Ad Reinhardt
In this video [4:59] take time with Ad Reinhardt's black canvases and discover the rewards of contemplation. You're looking at one of Ed Reinhardt's black paintings but actually there is no black on this painting. What may first appear...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ad Reinhardt
In this video [3:23] take time with Ad Reinhardt's black canvases and discover the rewards of contemplation. To learn more and create your own works, take our online course Materials and Techniques of Postwar Abstract Painting. Created...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Painting Techniques of Barnett Newman
In this video [3:49] learn Barnett Newman's techniques and how he reinvented the traditional figure-ground relationship. To experiment on your own, take our online studio course Materials and Techniques of Postwar Abstract Painting....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Barnett Newman
In this video [4:32] set aside the everyday and enter the profound, even spiritual space of Barnett Newman's paintings. What Newman is doing is trying to communicate a mood, a profound feeling, one might call it a spiritual feeling.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: "One: Number 31, 1950" by Jackson Pollock, 1950: Mo Ma Education
In this video [2:15] a MoMA educator discusses how she teaches "One: Number 31, 1950" by Jackson Pollock, 1950. Visit MoMA Learning for more teaching and learning resources. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: "Map" by Jasper Johns, 1961: Mo Ma Education
In this video [2:18] a MoMA educator discusses how he teaches 'Map' by Jasper Johns, 1961.