The artist Frida Kahlo is a larger-than-life icon, known for the masterful self-portraits she made during her turbulent life (1907 - 1954). We take a close look at her painting The Two Fridas (Las Dos Fridas), and consider what it tells...

In 1925, Frida Kahlo was on her way home from school in Mexico City when the bus she was riding collided with a streetcar. She suffered near-fatal injuries and her disability became a major theme in her paintings. Over the course of her...

Salvador Dali's exploration of the depths of the subconscious mind in his paintings and his powerful images tapped into the fantasies, dreams, fears and hallucinations of entire generations, and he should be remembered as a consummate...

Robert Shetterly was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English Literature. At Harvard he took some courses in drawing which changed the direction of his creative life...

Artist Henri Rousseau painted The Dream in 1910, and it's imagery of a woman lounging on a sofa in the middle of a jungle was as surreal then as it is today. What is it about this artwork that captivated audiences then and now?

Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has gone from a piece that was created in protest at the horrific bombing of a small village in northern Spain, to an icon and a universal...

Rectangles after rectangles after rectangles. Rothko was a truly prolific artist who found his groove painting hazy swatches of color and stuck with it until the very end. Maybe you've wondered what the point of it all is, or why he did...

Discover Dorothea Tanning, the artist who pushed the boundaries of surrealism. Dorothea Tanning was an American surrealist artist whose career spanned over seven decades. Self-taught, her early paintings depict with precision dream-like...

As a major new retrospective opens, Adrian Searle investigates The Secret Player -- a work as wilfully surreal as anything Magritte painted, and yet which contains buried clues to the artist's own life

Simon Shaw and Jeremiah Evarts discuss Giorgio de Chirico's dreamlike painting Le printemps and Joan Miro's classically Surrealist work Bonheur d'aimer ma brune. Both pieces are highlights of the 6 November Impressionist & Modern Art Sale.

Sotheby’s auction on 15 November 2014 in Paris will be the first opportunity in over twenty years to acquire works by Man Ray coming directly from the studio of the artist. The collection, property of the Man Ray Trust, includes works in...

Among the great poets of literary history, certain names like Homer, Shakespeare and Whitman are instantly recognizable. However, there's an early 20th century great poet whose name you may not know: Guillaume Apollinaire. Genevieve Emy...

Instructional Video for Brambleton MS Art Students by Bethany Thiele, 6th grade Art Teacher

Robert Shetterly was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English Literature. At Harvard he took some courses in drawing which changed the direction of his creative life...

Robert Shetterly was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English Literature. At Harvard he took some courses in drawing which changed the direction of his creative life...

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943 - 1978) was one of the most influential artists of his generation, and was also the brainchild behind the infamous BONE MEAL in 1971 at the artist-run Food restaurant in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. He...

By showing people that art can be used to express what we feel, rather than what we see, Abstract Expressionism changed how we define what art is.

In this episode of Anatomy of an Artwork, explore the details of Double Portrait with Wine Glass, an iconic painting from Marc Chagall that resides in the permanent collection of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. Using a synthesis of...

This documentary, narrated by Ed Harris, was produced by the National Gallery of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape. Joan Miró was passionately committed to his native Catalonia and its struggle for...

Marian Folga is a Polish painter and choreographer whose medium — the human body — allows him to express emotions in almost surreal ways. But when it comes to talking about his art, he’s a person of few words. In fact he refuses to...

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Storm Thorgerson designed the cover for Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon', an album that can be found in the homes of over 40 million people. In a career spanning over 30 years he has produced album graphics for numerous acts. Many of...

In the first episode of Like Art, Creators meets Alexandra Marzella, a young performance artist and model who is known for provocative self-portraits that investigate notions of truth, beauty, and sexuality through the medium of...

Marguerite Humeau combines her interest for ancient myths and science to create surreal large scale installations that explore ideas of past, present, life and death. The French artist invited us to her London studio before visiting the...