Tag: artist
Enter The Labyrinth Of Artist Lee Mingwei
Two dancers wearing sarongs with bells on their ankles move slowly across Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. They are brushing grains of rice into patterns. They are creating a winding labyrinth-like path.
Josef Herman, Sketches of Wales
This video series examines some of the stories behind Tate’s archives of British art, exploring questions and processes that are emerging from their collection, conservation and use.
Inside the MOST Psychedelic Home in New York
Jordan Hurt takes us into an amazing, upstate wonder of the world. Artist Katwise has spent the last 13 years transforming this home into a magical, masterpiece. In 2009, Kat and her partner purchased ‘a janky old farm’ house near Woodstock, NY next to a...
Green With Happiness: Meet the Green Lady of Brooklyn
Everything in Elizabeth Sweetheart’s life is green. From her bright green hair, to her self-dyed green overalls, the New York City artist has earned her moniker, “the Green Lady.”
The Cubist: Turning Rubik's Cubes Into Art
Solving a Rubik's Cube takes a certain talent; an entirely different talent is employed by 16-year-old Daniella Chaim, who uses Rubik's Cubes as her artistic medium. Correspondent Luke Burbank reports.
Three Michelangelos in Florence: Great Art Cities
In this episode we look at three less well known works by Michelangelo, including a Pieta he made for his own tomb, a controversial naked Jesus Christ created when he was just a teenager, and a Bacchus rejected by the man who commissioned it for being too...
The Hidden Histories of Queer Art
Explore LGBTQ+ artists with us as we delve into archives and collections to celebrate queer art. These artists have always existed, but art histories have predominately been told from a perspective that often suppressed their identities. This film examine...
Grant Wood: A Collection Of 87 Works
Grant Wood was born on a farm in Iowa in 1891. After high school he studied in the United States and Europe and developed an interest in Impressionism.
American Gothic
American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the American Gothic House in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people [he] fancied should live in that h...
The Bewitching Art of Laurie Lipton
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honors).
The Dream Worlds of Zdzisław Beksiński
Zdzisław Beksiński was a Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor, specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism. Beksiński made his paintings and drawings in what he called either a Baroque or a Gothic manner. His creations were made mainly in two...
This Painting Was an Act of Revenge. Here's Why.
This piece is called The Unequal Marriage by Vasili Pukirev. The artist came from humble beginnings and this painting was his way of revealing the uncomfortable truths hiding beneath the veil of money and power.
Origins of Audacity with Mo Heart and Victor Jackson
You want to make it to icon-status? You gotta be bold, innovative, daring AND fabulous. Above all else, you have to be AUDACIOUS.
The Art Of Boris Artzybasheff
Boris Mikhailovich Artzybasheff was an Russian illustrator active in the United States, notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs.
Salvador Dali: Master of Surrealism
After having his first art exhibition at age 13, Salvador Dali rose to become one of the world's most well-known and controversial artists.