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Picasso’s Guernica: Great Art Explained
Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has gone from a piece that was created in protest at the horrific bombing of a small village in northern Spain, to an icon and a universal symbol...
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Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson: Great Art Explained
You could say Land art existed thousands of years even before oil painting, but it would take a group of American artists to bring it back to the public gaze in the 1960s and 70s. Artists like Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, and Nancy...
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Two Old Men and Restoration of Francisco Goya's Black Paintings
It is impossible to know for sure who is depicted in Goya's Black Paintings, but there is evidence to suggest that the man in Two Old Men is Goya himself. Goya was a great admirer of the painter Diego Velázquez and this painting closely...
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Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas’: Great Art Explained
Frida Kahlo is the most famous female artist in history. She deviated from the traditional portrayal of female beauty in art, and instead chose to paint raw and honest experiences. A near fatal bus accident at 18 left Frida crippled and...
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Andy Warhol's Marilyn: Great Art Explained
Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th century. The...
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Salvador Dali's 'The Persistence of Memory': Great Art Explained
Salvador Dali's exploration of the depths of the subconscious mind in his paintings and his powerful images tapped into the fantasies, dreams, fears and hallucinations of entire generations, and he should be remembered as a consummate...
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How to Create a Mixed Orientation Document in Microsoft Word
Learn how to create a unique layout in Microsoft Word by setting one page to landscape while keeping the surrounding pages in portrait orientation. This tutorial demonstrates a step-by-step process to achieve this design feature,...
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Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained
"What a brilliant series this is" - Stephen Fry on Twitter 12 December 2020 "Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes...
The Art Assignment
The Art History of the Selfie | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Artists have been taking selfies since the dawn of photography. Cameras allowed people to capture their own image in a way that had never been possible in all of human history, and today most of us carry these magical devices in our...
Poetry Foundation
Raych Jackson reads “self-portrait as the space between us”
Raych Jackson reads Trace DePass's poem, “self-portrait as the space between us”.
The March of Time
MOT: 1916: US President Woodrow Wilson marches in preparedness parade
Woodrow Wilson stands talking with group of men in top hats and overcoats, location unknown / Wilson carrying a US flag marches at the head of a war preparedness parade on 5th Avenue at Madison Square Park in New York City during his...
Poetry Foundation
Anjali Sachdeva reads "Self-Portrait"
Anjali Sachdeva reads Kiki Petrosino's poem "Self-Portrait
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part One): Great Art Explained
In this video I look at Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Nobody painted Hell quite like Bosch. What we think of as Hell, and certainly what Bosch thought of as Hell is not based on the bible. What we think of as hell...
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Excel VBA Programming The Complete Guide - Predefined Constants
In this lesson, we dive into predefined constants or enumerations. These are constants built into the VBA language itself that evaluate to numbers. They are used internally by VBA whenever several options are needed that cannot be...
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Great Art Cities Explained: London
In the first of a new series, James Payne and Joanne Shurvell combine their love of Art and Travel, as they look at less well known museums in cities around the world. In "Great Art Cities Explained: London", we look at three museums...
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part Two): Great Art Explained
In this video I look at Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Nobody painted Hell quite like Bosch. What we think of as Hell, and certainly what Bosch thought of as Hell is not based on the bible. There is no mention of Hell...
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The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault: Great Art Explained
This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and scandalised high society. Not only for its anti-royalist statements but also for its choice of a black man as the hero. In an age of slavery. In its brutality,...
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Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi: Great Art Explained
Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost entirely a male industry before modern times. Having an...
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part Three): Great Art Explained
The painting was just too complex and detailed to deal with in fifteen minutes, so I made it in three parts. There are no records to tell us what Bosch or his contemporaries were thinking. There are so many theories out there, some more...
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La Leocadia, Francisco Goya's Mistress
La Leocadia, also known as The Seductress, is likely one of Goya's last paintings. It is painted on a light background, unlike the dark background of the rest of the Black Paintings. The woman in the painting bears a striking resemblance...
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Comprehensive Android Developer Bootcamp - Understanding Android Studio - Part 2
Android Development – Let the fun Begin!:Understanding Android Studio - Part 2 This clip is from the chapter "Android Development – Let the fun Begin!" of the series "The Comprehensive Android Developer Bootcamp".This section explains...
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The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck: Great Art Explained
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck has baffled art historians ever since it was painted in 1434. It has been dissected and analysed, maybe more than any other painting in history, and in the process, become even more mysterious....
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Mona Lisa del Giocondo
In 1550, art historian Giorgio Vasari noted in his book on Renaissance artwork that, "Leonardo undertook to execute, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife." But there was dispute about Mona Lisa's true identity...
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MOT: Pictures of Greece; the end of Nazi occupation - part 9 of 20
MOT 1944: Greek partisans pose next to destroyed buildings and bridges.