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Nzinga Brought to Life: Recreations Revealed, with History
Nzinga is one of my favorite women in history. She lived a fascinating life that is not recounted nearly as often as it should be. Nzinga was the warrior ruler of the Kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba, which now constitute modern-day...
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Anne of Cleves: Too Ugly for Henry VIII? Facial Re-Creations & History Revealed.
Ugliest wife, or luckiest wife? Anne of Cleves is known to history as being the “ugly” fourth wife of King Henry VIII, but we have reasons to believe this is not true. Anne of Cleves was sent at the age of 24, only speaking German and...
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Vlad the Impaler Revealed: The Infamous Ruler Recreated as a Modern Man, with History
I'm an artist that brings history back to life by creating famous figures from the past in the modern day, as well as creating facial reconstructions and recreations. Vlad the Impaler is one of the most legendary figures from Eastern...
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Microsoft Excel Tutorial: Changing Margins, Scaling, and Orientation for Printing
This is a tutorial on how to change margins, scaling, and orientation in Microsoft Excel for printing purposes. It covers both manual adjustments and using the mouse to adjust margins, as well as selecting portrait or landscape...
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Famous Musicians Recreated as Modern-day Men: Beethoven, Chevalier de Saint Georges & Mozart.
I'm an artist that uses photoshop to bring old images and statues into the modern day. I use photo-compositing and digital drawing techniques to achieve a more photo-realistic appearance.
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Lady Jane Grey: History & Facial Re-creations Revealed.
Lady Jane Grey is a figure I’ve touched on before, and I made a modern version of her last year - you can check out that version on the Instagram account. Lady Jane Grey was the unlikely candidate for the throne when King Edward VI named...
Amor Sciendi
Kehinde Wiley and the Obama Portrait Explained
A history and analysis of Kehinde Wiley's presidential portrait of Barak Obama
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The Great Wave by Hokusai: Great Art Explained
In 1639 Japan closed its borders and cut itself off from the outside world. Foreigners were expelled, Western culture was forbidden, and Entering or leaving Japan was punishable by Death. It would remain that way for over 200 years. It...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)': Great Art Explained
In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would...
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Two Old Men and Restoration of Francisco Goya's Black Paintings
It is impossible to know for sure who is depicted in Goya's Black Paintings, but there is evidence to suggest that the man in Two Old Men is Goya himself. Goya was a great admirer of the painter Diego Velázquez and this painting closely...
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Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson: Great Art Explained
You could say Land art existed thousands of years even before oil painting, but it would take a group of American artists to bring it back to the public gaze in the 1960s and 70s. Artists like Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, and Nancy...
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Picasso’s Guernica: Great Art Explained
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 symbol...
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Andy Warhol's Marilyn: Great Art Explained
Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th century. The...
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Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas’: Great Art Explained
Frida Kahlo is the most famous female artist in history. She deviated from the traditional portrayal of female beauty in art, and instead chose to paint raw and honest experiences. A near fatal bus accident at 18 left Frida crippled and...
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Salvador Dali's 'The Persistence of Memory': Great Art Explained
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...
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How to Create a Mixed Orientation Document in Microsoft Word
Learn how to create a unique layout in Microsoft Word by setting one page to landscape while keeping the surrounding pages in portrait orientation. This tutorial demonstrates a step-by-step process to achieve this design feature,...
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Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained
"What a brilliant series this is" - Stephen Fry on Twitter 12 December 2020 "Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes...
The Art Assignment
The Art History of the Selfie | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Artists have been taking selfies since the dawn of photography. Cameras allowed people to capture their own image in a way that had never been possible in all of human history, and today most of us carry these magical devices in our...
Poetry Foundation
Raych Jackson reads “self-portrait as the space between us”
Raych Jackson reads Trace DePass's poem, “self-portrait as the space between us”.
The March of Time
MOT: 1916: US President Woodrow Wilson marches in preparedness parade
Woodrow Wilson stands talking with group of men in top hats and overcoats, location unknown / Wilson carrying a US flag marches at the head of a war preparedness parade on 5th Avenue at Madison Square Park in New York City during his...
Poetry Foundation
Anjali Sachdeva reads "Self-Portrait"
Anjali Sachdeva reads Kiki Petrosino's poem "Self-Portrait
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part One): Great Art Explained
In this video I look at Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Nobody painted Hell quite like Bosch. What we think of as Hell, and certainly what Bosch thought of as Hell is not based on the bible. What we think of as hell...
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Excel VBA Programming The Complete Guide - Predefined Constants
In this lesson, we dive into predefined constants or enumerations. These are constants built into the VBA language itself that evaluate to numbers. They are used internally by VBA whenever several options are needed that cannot be...
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Great Art Cities Explained: London
In the first of a new series, James Payne and Joanne Shurvell combine their love of Art and Travel, as they look at less well known museums in cities around the world. In "Great Art Cities Explained: London", we look at three museums...