Let's recreate a lavish spread of fine cheeses, pretzels, and the trappings of the good life on display in 17th Century Dutch and Flemish still life paintings.

Looking for a creative way to capture compelling photos of everyday items and objects? Check out this educational video from Kade!
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This video introduces an Art Assignment perfect for Middle and High School students needing motivation to practice still life drawing. Mixed Media Still Life Drawing adds voice and choice to a "boring" still life!

Beginning a still life drawing (6th grade at Brambleton Middle School)

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This film is taken from our 2012 exhibition Art of Arrangement: Photography and the Still Life Tradition.ttps://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/what-was-on/art-arrangement-photography-and-still-life-tradition' target='_blank'...

This film is taken from our 2012 exhibition Art of Arrangement: Photography and the Still Life Tradition.ttps://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/what-was-on/art-arrangement-photography-and-still-life-tradition' target='_blank'...

MOT 1952: PAINTING GROUP: VS Two women of Baltimore Women's Club painting still life, WS Members of club sitting w/ Mrs. Kent SOT talking about 'The Penny Art Fund' works, a penny donated by each member to help send a young artist to...

Sure, you've seen Vincent Van Gogh's famed painting The Starry Night before. And maybe you know of him as a tortured soul. But let's take a closer look behind this most recognizable work of art.

* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Marina Abramovi's art pushes the boundary between audience and artist in pursuit of heightened consciousness and...

When Vladek’s second wife leaves him, Art and Françoise go to stay with him. Art still finds it hard to get along with his father, but he continues recording his story. It’s 1944 and Vladek and Anja have been separated into different...

For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that. It was shocking then and it still upsets and confounds...

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....

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...

Bailey Vincent has been on the brink of major surgery many times, but this moment is like nothing she has ever dealt with before. In this episode of “Barely Breathing Ballerina”, Bailey faces an unprecedented...

Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely, Smith College B.A. in hand and nothing at all to suggest she knew how to make a lesson plan, began professional life as an English teacher in Vermont’s Waterbury High School. When, after two happy years, Vermont...

The place that travel writer Pico Iyer would most like to go? Nowhere. In a counterintuitive and lyrical meditation, Iyer takes a look at the incredible insight that comes with taking time for stillness. In our world of constant movement...

"Rock out...live your life....live your art!" This was Brooklyn, New York native Shanelle Gabriel's response to her diagnosis of Lupus, an autoimmune disease where your body's immune system, that usually...

Elementary teachers present their unique ideas for how to connect Impressionism, a still-life painting, and poetry to their classroom curricula. This video was excerpted from the 2012 Culminating Event of the Getty Museum's Art &...

We spend the day with artist Wolfgang Tillmans in his Berlin studio as he prepares for his Tate Modern exhibition. German-born, international in outlook and exhibited around the world, Wolfgang Tillmans spent many years in the UK and is...

Fizzy and the Lunch Labbers are painting a rainbow salad still-life when “Leonardo De Freddy” crashes the party. On Lunch Lab Live, Food Pyramid announces his retirement. Freezer Burn takes us over the rock-n-roll food rainbow.

Ice pops usually look delicious, but these are completely inedible. Give one a lick and you might taste a plastic pollutant or oozing trash. ➡ Subscribehttp://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Subscribe About...

What's the point of making realistic paintings when photography can do the trick? We look at the history of artists recreating the world as we see it and ponder why it's still happening.

The hall lights dim…..a hush comes over the audience … the command “places everyone” is given… there is a palpable stillness in the air as the first notes of the opening piece float out of the speakers...