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What Did Monet Eat in a Day?
This episode of Art Cooking explores the life, art, and eating habits of the great Impressionist artist Claude Monet. We prepare a menu based on the journals Monet kept during his years in Giverny, France, enjoying the freshest produce...
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
How to Make Slime for the TOTAL BEGINNER (Like Us!)
Do you like slime? Do you want to make your own? My five year old wanted to make slime and this was our experience!
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Air Guitar: Book Club # 1 | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we kick off The Art Assignment Book Club with Dave Hickey's "Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy." We discuss everything from John geeking out in a library to Michael Jackson's chimpanzee - Bubbles. Oh, and we discuss the...
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Create someone's Lost Childhood Object. | Lenka Clayton | The Art Assignment
This week we visit Lenka Clayton, another Pittsburgh based artist whose work finds meaning in ordinary, everyday objects. For her assignment, she asks you to partner with someone and recreate a lost childhood object, using their memory...
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Photo a Friend Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Happy Participant Appreciation Month!! We're taking the next 4 weeks to show off all the hard work you've put into making responses for The Art Assignment, and recognize the many ways in which you support and contribute to this community...
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Circles in Color: Watercolor Timelapse and Tutorial
Get out a stencil and watercolor paint and create a colorful piece along with me! The watercolor set of 16 colors by Prang is GREAT to start with! Along with watercolor paint, you will need watercolor paper.
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How to Draw with Oil Pastels
Use inspiration from art history, Claude Monet, to learn how to draw with oil pastels. Want the supplies in this video? Visit us at indigoartbox.com.
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Allegory of Calumny: Changing the Canon of Art History
Here is our argument that Botticelli's Calumny of Apelles is the greatest example of the High Renaissance. Another example of resurrection in 15th century.
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Musée des Beaux Arts and Auden's View of Suffering
A close reading of WH Auden's peom Musée des Beaux Arts
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Oil Pastel Blending Demo
Demo for how to blend colors with oil pastels in a worksheet for practice. I am using Sakura Cray-Pas Junior Artist Oil Pastels (set of 16) in this video. If you want more colors to work with, and extra fine quality oil pastels, try the...
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St. Paul's Cathedral: Religion and Science
How can do the Sciences, Artistic Expression, and Religion come together to create a useful, inspiring, and beautiful structure? Learn about Christopher Wrens Process in designing and building St. Paul's Cathedral
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Ink Drawing Timelapse and Tutorial - Lion
Watch how I start an ink drawing from start to finish, and see what basic materials I use. Try your own this #inktober! KEEP CREATING! :)
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Use creativity to transform a discarded object. | Brandan Odums | The Art Assignment
The Art Assignment continues its journey through New Orleans with Brandan "BMike" Odums, the mastermind behind "ExhibitBE", a collaborative street art exhibition that transformed an unoccupied apartment building and gave it new life. Now...
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Fierce Women of Art 2 | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Our first video on fierce women artists didn't even begin to cover the volume of interesting and boundary-pushing work made by women, so we had to make another. This week we talk about the incredible Artemisia Gentileschi, Mona Hatoum,...
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Imprint Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week Sarah and John review your submissions to Sopheap Pich's Art Assignment "Imprint" while doing the assignment themselves.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Craft Knife Safety and Tips for Beginners
I have found this knife to be best to work with (X-Acto #2 blades). I am using a Self-Healing Mat to work on.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Belief+Doubt by Barbara Kruger at the Hirshhorn | Informative Tour
Join me on a quick tour of the lower lobby of The Hirshhorn and learn about conceptual artist, Barbara Kruger.
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How To Draw Bubbles With Colored Pencils
This virtual lesson was made during the March 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak. Hopefully, it will inspire people who are stuck at home to draw some bubbles using colored pencils!
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Rescuing the Individual: Bedroom at Arles
We argue van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles rescues individual perspective and reacts to the impact of culture on the individual.
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Last Judgment: The Chemistry of Blue
We discuss Michelangelo's Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel, and pause to admire the deep blue pigment called ultramarine.
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Battle of San Romano: Big Fluffy Hats
We discuss Uccello's 1453 Battle of San Romano, one of the earliest examples of Renaissance perspective, and attempt to gauge the volume of a huge hat.
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Caption this painting. | David Rathman | The Art Assignment
David Rathman’s paintings pair atmospheric landscapes with carefully selected phrases, playing with the relationship between text and image. This week, he created a painting for you to caption.
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Andy Warhol and the Mimetic Theory of Art | AmorSciendi
I've been reading a lot of art theory lately and this video is a product of that. I also have been inspired by the long videos of the Art Assignment.
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St. Peter's Basilica: Beauty from Strife
St. Peter's Basilica was built during one of the darkest times in the Church's history. This is its story.