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.

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)

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.

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 &...

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....

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...

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...

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.

Tom Wesselmann’s monumental Long Delayed Nude is an iconic pop American painting. In this episode of Anatomy of an Artwork, discover how Wesselmann crafts an intimate, almost filmic erotic scene that combines a ‘pop’ and ‘classical’...

Painted in lavish tones of seductive pinks, deep crimson and scarlet reds, Rufino Tamayo's Sandías y naranja, 1957, stands a radiant symbol of Mexican identity and vibrant example of Mexican Modernism. Previously in the collection of...

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.

MOT 1952: CARNEGIE MUSEUM: MS Abstract painting 'Still Life' by Belgium artist Raoul Ubac (1910-1985) placing forth , WS Large abstract 'M 1951' by New York artist James Brooks (1906-1992) placing fifth. Modernist, contemporary,...

Mexican artist and activist, Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon was born July 6 1907. Stricken with polio at a young age, she wants to become a doctor, but her dream is shattered when a bus accident nearly takes her life. While...

Mexican artist and activist, Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon was born July 6 1907. Stricken with polio at a young age, she wants to become a doctor, but her dream is shattered when a bus accident nearly takes her life. While...

This 10-minute film explores the life and art of Alonso Berruguete, the revolutionary sculptor and painter of Renaissance Spain. Around 1506, when still a teenager, Berruguete traveled from his small town in Castile to Italy, where he...

Toward the end of his nearly century-long life, Marc Chagall could still hear the music of his childhood, see the farmland of his hometown, and perhaps most importantly, still feel the embrace of his first wife Bella. The artist...

Tate Modern's 2009 exhibition explored the work of Aleksandr Rodchenko and Liubov Popova, who sparked a revolution in Russian art. The Constructivists challenged the idea of the work of art as a unique commodity, and believed that it...

Please support our videosf='http://www.patreon.com/scifri' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>videos According to neurologist and artist Greg Dunn ( gregdunnart.com ) , the reality of how our neurons are organized and transmit...