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Khan Academy: Art and Society: Modern Art & Ideas
Many artists create work in response to the social, cultural, and political issues of their time. See how Dorothea Lange, Martha Rosler, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres responded to the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, and the AIDS crisis....
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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: Picasso's Guitars
In this video [3:15] photography helps MoMA conservators determine how to treat Picasso's 1913 Cubist sculpture, Still-Life with Guitar. To learn about how art changes over time, enroll in one of MoMA's courses online. Created by The...
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Khan Academy: Conservation: Paik, 'Untitled,' 1993
To learn more about the history of sound, video and performance art, enroll in our online courses, including Five Puzzles of Contemporary Art.
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Khan Academy: Installation of Richard Serra's Sculptures at Moma
In this video [1:06] watch Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) and Intersection II (1992) installed in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden in 2007. To learn about how art changes over time, enroll in one of MoMA's online...
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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: Art and Identity: Modern Art & Ideas
In this video [4:36] Explore how artists like Frida Kahlo, Glenn Ligon, and Andy Warhol investigate and express ideas about identity in their work. See short films about other themes: http://bit.ly/1OqE0ZZ Keep learning:...
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Khan Academy: Transforming Everyday Objects: Modern Art & Ideas
Many artists use or combine everyday objects to challenge assumptions about what constitutes "art" and how it should be made. Learn how Marcel Duchamp, Meret Oppenheim, and Robert Rauschenberg did the same with a bicycle wheel and a...
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Khan Academy: Places and Spaces: Modern Art & Ideas
Art may be found in museums, but it almost never begins there. Discover some of the different ways that artists represent place and use materials from their environment, as seen in works by Vincent van Gogh, Piet Mondrian and Gordon...
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Khan Academy: Introduction to Modern Art & Ideas
Looking at modern art through the lens of different themes can reveal surprising connections and new insights. In our new online course, 'Modern Art & Ideas,' we explore four themes we often use when teaching at The Museum of Modern...
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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...
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Khan Academy: Robert Delaunay, "Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon"
This circular painting by Robert Delaunay is one of many that takes advantage and really responds to the science of the beginning of the 20th century and thinking about the heavens, thinking about the movements of the sun, the moon, the...
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Khan Academy: Constantin Brancusi, "Mlle Pogany"
Constantin Brancusi, a Romanian-born artist made sculptures that explored the idea of abstraction. In the center is Mademoiselle Pogany; the bronze is dated 1913. It was actually a portrait of a friend of his, Margit Pogany, a young...
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Khan Academy: Giorgio De Chirico, "The Anxious Journey"
Giorgio deChirico's 1913 painting, "The Anxious Journey." was a breakthrough year for Giorgio deChirico. In October of 1913, a critic and champion of Avent Garde art, Guillaume Apollinaire wrote about his experience of deChirico's...
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Khan Academy: Olga Rozanova, 'A Little Duck's Nest... Of Bad Words'
Books played a major role in 1913. Some books were hand-colorized by the artist, so each is unique, propose just a different relationship between text and images. Olga Rozanova is one of the artists who pioneered this new use of books....
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Khan Academy: Fernand Leger, "Contrast of Forms"
1913 was a banner year for Leger. It was the year in which he figured out how to become a Leger instead of a follower of Picasso or Braque. He did a large series of paintings entitled "Contrast of Form". Each of these examined the ways...
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Khan Academy: Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, 'Suspense'
In 1913 you begin to see the dawn of the narrative film with a film suspense directed by Louis Weber and Phillip Smalley. It's the story of a young mother who lives in a very remote area in a home that is also managed by their housemaid....
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Khan Academy: Emil Nolde, "Young Couple," 1913
This video [2:16] is "Young Couple," a lithograph from 1913 by Emil Nolde. He is known as one of the leading expressionists, a loose group of artists working mostly in Germany in the early 1900s and 1910s. They worked to heighten the...
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Khan Academy: Leopold Survage, "Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film"
Leopold Survage created a series called Colored Rhythm; he had this idea about making an abstract film this idea that survives himself said to throw off paintings last shackle and that is immobility, making painting move. He chose a very...
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Khan Academy: Mack Sennett, 'Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life'
This video [1:48] discusses the silent film "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" was made in 1913, directed by Mack Sennett, and is your quintessential chase film. This film has every single comedy chase trope that you could ever want; So...
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Khan Academy: Duchamp, 3 Standard Stoppages
In this video [2:28] learn how Marcel Duchamp re-conceived a standard unit of measure. Duchamp decided, "Painting is dead. I'm going to turn to different things." 1913 was the year that Duchamp made his first ready made by putting an...
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Khan Academy: "Composition in Brown and Gray," Piet Mondrian
In this video [2:14] discover how Piet Mondrian explored center and periphery in his pioneering abstraction that emerges in cubism and to regularize it as a grid. He works from his sketchbook images of the motif of trees, and the...
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Khan Academy: Louis Raemaekers, 'Tegen De Tariefwet, Vliegt Niet in 'T Web!'
This video [2:05] discusses a poster from 1913 designed and printed in Amsterdam by Louis Raemaekers. This is a dramatic use of very simple means, two colors lithographically printed, a new integrative approach to the combination of...
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Khan Academy: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, "Street, Berlin"
In this video [2:21] you walk the streets of 1913 Berlin with the Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.