The Art Assignment
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This week we answer your questions from our art hotline* and talk about the distinction between art and craft (if any), art world pretension, the proliferation of images, imposter syndrome, and more.
Amor Sciendi
A Revolution in History Paintings
As the United States became a nation, it also needed to invent a new visual vocabulary in its history paintings. This is the story of how that happened.
The March of Time
1952: THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
MOT 1952: THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK: Angled WS Adult students w/ sketch pads entering & leaving room. VS Artists sketching nude in classroom, life class studying basic anatomy, artist George Grosz (1893-1959) working w/...
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...
Curated Video
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)': Great Art Explained
In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would...
Curated Video
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...
Curated Video
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...
Curated Video
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper: Great Art Explained
Edward Hopper’s world was New York, and he understood that city more than most people. He understood that, even though you may live in one of the most crowded and busy cities on earth, it is still possible to feel entirely alone. This...
Amor Sciendi
The Civil War: Photography, Technology and Destruction
Photography took the realities of modern warfare to the doorsteps of America. This video is part of a series on American Art.
Amor Sciendi
This Painting is About Democracy
Landscape paintings were HUGE in the early 19th century, and the reason? Well, it's complicated.
Curated Video
Chicano Art Movement
The Chicano Art Movement was an explosion of Mexican-American culture that established a unique artistic identity in the United States - and raised up a new political voice.
Amor Sciendi
Every Brush Stroke a Testimony
The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner is a vindication of culture and art in an oppressed population.
Curated Video
Landmark abstract expressionist art goes on display
1. Exterior of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. Close-up of sign reading (in English) "Abstract Expressionism: The Muriel Newman Collection"
3. Pan of gallery with art on display
4. Zoom out from painting entitled "Number 28, 1950"...
Curated Video
USA: COMPENSATION FOR HOLOCAUST VICTIMS LATEST
Washington DC, US - February 10, 2000 and File
Washington DC - February 10
1. Committee
2. Hearing
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lawrence Eagleburger, Chairman International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims
4. Audience
5. Panel...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : NYs Met Gallery shows off new Breuer building
CLEAN : NYs Met Gallery shows off new Breuer building
Smithsonian Institution
Hirshhorn Museum Podcast: Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited
Learn about the American abstract painter Morris Louis in this podcast of the curator of the exhbition "Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited" at the Hirshorn Museum, talking about the exhibition.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Meet Frank Romero
Video on the American artist Frank Romero. [3:51]