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...

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...

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 &...

For his mom’s birthday, Tom Thomas has painted her portrait in pencil. Nolik and Fire discover the portrait as Tom Thomas is sleeping and decide they can improve it. They add details found in a variety of masterpieces to the portrait of...

Long before we had cameras scientists still needed visual documentation—enter the science illustrator! Chapters VITRUVIAN MAN Credit: Leonardo da Vinci 0:34 ANDREAS VESALIUS 1:25 DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA 1:59 MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN 2:39...

Long before we had cameras scientists still needed visual documentation—enter the science illustrator!

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.

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...

Maggi Hambling talks to Hugo Chapman, Keeper of Prints and Drawings, about her exhibition 'Touch: works on paper' at the British Museum – a retrospective of Hambling's prints and drawings, many of which have never been exhibited before....

Writer Mavis Cheek discusses Patrick Caulfield's painting After Lunch and food writer and cook Antonio Carluccio recollects recreating one of Caulfield's painting in real life. Both share their memories of the artist with Tateshots in...

British artist Patrick Caulfield radically re-imagined traditional genres such as still life and domestic interiors to produce paintings of startling originality. This film features Nicolas Serota discussing Caulfield's Interior with a...

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,...