Curated Video
Artistic Optical Illusions
This video explores the concept of optical illusions in art, highlighting how arrangements and compositions can deceive our perception. It showcases various examples, including images formed by branches and sidewalk art that create...
Curated Video
The Science and Applications of Black Lights
This video explains how black lights work and their various applications. Black lights emit long wave ultraviolet light, which is invisible to the human eye but causes certain objects, like phosphors, to glow.
Indigo Artbox
Paul Cezanne: 6 Minute Art History Video
Learn about Paul Cezanne, one of the greatest painters of our time.
Amor Sciendi
Bouguereau Vs. Renoir
Why are some artists popular in their time, but are forgotten later? We discuss this question by looking at Bouguereau and Renoir, two artists from the 1880's, and compare their styles set against the backdrop of the culture in which...
Indigo Artbox
How to draw with soft chalk pastels (using Degas for inspiration!)
Soft chalk pastels are a fun medium to try out. Learn how to draw and blend with them!
Curated Video
From Marine to Entrepreneur: Building Caskets as Therapy
The video features a man named Bill, who is a veteran suffering from PTSD, sharing his experience of finding solace in building caskets. Initially perplexed by his unusual hobby, his loved ones soon realize that building caskets provides...
Amor Sciendi
Perceiving Women: a Couple paintings by Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt is a great American Experessinist painting who lived in France. This is the story of how she played with the tropes of female representation in her work.
The Wall Street Journal
Inside the Work of Urs Fischer
Artist Urs Fischer talks about how he uses his sculptures to explore ideas about memory, scale and optical illusion.
The Art Assignment
Create a desktop monument.| Lee Boroson | The Art Assignment
In which we visit artist Lee Boroson in his summer studio in upstate New York, where he was hard at work on his exhibition at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened this week! Boroson assigns us to create a desktop monument.
Curated Video
New York: Great Art Cities Explained
Abstract Expressionism would emerge from a post-war mood of anxiety and trauma. These were artists who, like the surrealists before them had a profound interest in the unconscious mind. They produced work that may have been abstract but...
Makematic
Hand drawn selfies
Self-portraits are images that look outward and inward, revealing what we truly feel inside and displaying our personalities and interests. In this activity, children aged 8-11 will create a hand-drawn selfie to explore self-identity and...
Indigo Artbox
How to Draw & Paint With Watercolors
Learn simple tricks to draw a horse and paint with watercolor
Weird History
Behind The Scenes on MTV 'Cribs'
MTV Cribs was one of the most beloved and outrageous shows of the early '00s. From Mariah Carey's lavish, 11,000 square-foot penthouse to Redman's Staten Island shack, the show gave everyday people an inside glimpse of what it's really...
The Art Assignment
The Case for Conceptual Art
Sometimes art is paintings, and sometimes it's a chair. Why? Let's learn about "Conceptual Art," where the idea is more important than the form.
Curated Video
Photorealism: The Art of Reproducing Reality
This video explores the art style of photorealism, where artists aim to recreate images and subjects in a way that appears incredibly realistic. It discusses the origins of photorealism and explains the techniques used by artists to...
Amor Sciendi
Kehinde Wiley and the Obama Portrait Explained
A history and analysis of Kehinde Wiley's presidential portrait of Barak Obama
Indigo Artbox
How to Paint Apples (using acrylic paints!)
Learn how to create dimensional forms using color and paint.
Curated Video
Mastering Django Web Development (Video 11)
Django is one of the world's leading web development platforms that follows the model-view-template development method. This Python web framework makes your app building experience smoother, faster, and easier. It has been and continues...
TMW Media
Things in a Day: Watching television, dancing, drawing and going for a ride
Let's take a quick look at watching television, dancing and drawing. Finally, let's learn how to prepare for taking a ride in the car. Things in a Day, Part 5
Indigo Artbox
Learn How to Draw with Soft Chalk Pastels and to Draw the Human Form
Inspired by Artist Edgar Degas
Curated Video
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...
The Art Assignment
The Truth of the Tortured Artist
We addressed the myth, and now it's time for the truth of the tortured artist. Some art is born of pain and suffering, and reflects the darkest side of human experience. We like that about it.
The Africa Channel
African Artists Speak - Ablade Glover
Taking the viewer on a visually stunning journey across the globe, African Masters reveals the story behind the African art scene. Artist Profiles; Nigeria,Ghana, behind the scenes footage of artists studios and workspaces, featuring El...