In this video, you will hear ten 30-second clips of music from the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern/20th Century musical periods. Can you name the musical period, and for bonus points, can you identify the composer, piece o...

Music has come a long way in the last thousand years or so, and we’re going to tell you how! From Gregorian Chants to Mozart’s sonatas, we’re going to give you a brief history of the 6 Musical Periods and how they’ve each contributed to music today. If y...

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By the mid 17th century, the art being produced in Catholic countries had become a powerful tool of propaganda, characterized by a heightened sense of drama, movement, and theatricality that had never been seen before.

Art Prof Teaching Artist Alex Rowe demonstrates important acrylic painting techniques in order to create a still life painting from beginning to end.

Can't decide between oils and acrylics? This might help. Watch how to create a cloudy sky, tree and river in both acrylic paint and oil paint.

This video discusses all of the differences between oil and acrylic paint in great depth, as well as their similarities. It's essential for any artist who paints to know what the technical differences are between oil and acrylic paint. The dry time varie...

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical uphea...

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical uphea...

Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch/Netherlandish painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work, generally oil on oak wood, mainly contains fantastic illustrations of religious concepts a...

Jan Matejko's 1862 Stańczyk is very emotionally charged. It's a pretty simple scene: A sad jester, alone in a dark room. Why is he sad? Can a jester, or a clown, be sad, knowing that their job is to spread happiness? In this video, we'll be talking about...

Between 1863 when Munch was born and the years before the first world war, European cities were going through unprecedented change. Industrialization and economic change brought anxieties and obsessions, political unrest, and radicalism.

Kwanzaa is an annual celebration of African-American culture from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually on the sixth day. It was created by activist Maulana Karenga, based on African harvest festival traditions f...

One scientist caused two environmental disasters and the deaths of millions.

Brad tries to attempt to do the worlds most complicated cornrows and let's just say he completely lost his mind. This was impossible! Be sure to acknowledge...no one can do every braid. There is no such person out there. This is...interesting, neat and...