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How Art Can Help You Analyze
"Close study of art can train viewers to study thoroughly, analyze the elements, observe, articulate them succinctly, and formulate questions to address the seeming inconsistencies." Show your young learners how the study of art enhances...
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Khan Academy: Conservation: Rene Magritte, 'The Menaced Assassin,' 1927
In this video [2:35] This is Rene Magritte's Menaced Assassin from 1927. In preparation for the exhibition, we did some treatment, and also some technical examinations. One of the techniques we used for examining the painting was...
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Khan Academy: Conservation: Rene Magritte, "The Portrait," 1935
This video [2:59] In preparation for the Magritte exhibition, they began examining The Portrait, from 1935. What started as a fairly routine conservation treatment uncovered some very interesting details about Magritte's painting.
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Khan Academy: Conservation: Rene Magritte, 'The False Mirror,' 1928
In this video [1:19] "The False Mirror" by Rene Magritte presents us with this enormous, lashless eye. Its iris is very and implausibly filled with this luminous cloud-swept blue sky, and then right at dead center is this matte black,...
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Khan Academy: Conservation: Rene Magritte, 'The Palace of Curtains, Iii' 1928 29
This video [2:29] they did a lot of investigation on the painting "Palace of Curtains, III." The varnish was not something that Magritte would have chosen for this work. We realized that this painting should not be varnished. We first...