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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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The Kiss by Gustav Klimt: Great Art Explained
A group of artists, architects, musicians and social scientists, were experimenting in ways that would transform their individual fields. On the one hand, Vienna was the traditional city of academic art, Johann Strauss, and the Hapsburg...
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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...
Amor Sciendi
St. Peter's Bascillica Explained
A history of the largest religious structure on earth: St. Peter's Bascillica
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Introducing Ionic 2 (Video 22)
Hybrid apps are changing the way people build mobile applications. With Ionic 2, hybrid app developers are gifted with not only a fresh, well-built, and powerful platform, but also a tool to enjoy their development experience. Apps can...
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Introducing Ionic 2 (Video 20)
Hybrid apps are changing the way people build mobile applications. With Ionic 2, hybrid app developers are gifted with not only a fresh, well-built, and powerful platform, but also a tool to enjoy their development experience. Apps can...
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The Scream: Great Art Explained
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....
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Caravaggio's Taking of Christ: Great Art Explained
The Taking of Christ is a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The subject is the moment that the son of God is betrayed with a kiss, and arrested in the garden of Gethsemane. Caravaggio’s approach to religious art was shocking...
Poetry Foundation
Jon Sands reads "Keith Haring says every audience member is an artist..."
Jon Sands (he/him/his) reads his poem, “Keith Haring says every audience member is an artist because they create the meaning of a piece of art
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Monet's Water Lilies: Great Art Explained
"Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power" - Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020
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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...
Mythology & Fiction Explained
The Strange & Terrifying Creatures of Sweden - (Exploring Scandinavian Folklore)
Today on Mythology & Fiction Explained, we take a look at the many strange creatures and legends that are native to Sweden. These creatures include the Draugr, Skogsraet, Myling, Nacken, Mara, Trollcat and Vittra.
Indigo Artbox
How to Sculpt with Clay: African Art and Amadeo Modigliani
Learn how to sculpt with clay, inspired by African art and famous artist Amadeo Modigliani. Want the supplies in this video? Visit us at indigoartbox.com.
Curated Video
Mastering Django Web Development (Video 21)
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...
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Overview of the Disasters of War Series by Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya's series of aquatint prints, The Disasters of War are hard to look at. Rather than focus on the bombastics of usual war art, he depicts the suffering of regular people - the starving, assaults, executions. He does not...
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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...
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The Thinker by Rodin: Great Art Explained
The Thinker, captured in a moment of concentrated introspection has come to represent a multitude of ideas about the nature of man and his place in the world. For some it is a symbol of knowledge, others philosophy, even existence...
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Nighthawks by Edward Hopper: Great Art Explained
Edward Hopper’s world was New York, and he understood that city more than most people. He understood that, even though you may live in one of the most crowded and busy cities on earth, it is still possible to feel entirely alone. This...
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part Two): 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. There is no mention of Hell...
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Scott Higgins - Film in the Classroom
Scott Higgins is a professor and chair of the College of Film and the Moving Image at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. He teaches courses about film history, genre, and aesthetics. He is the author of Harnessing the...
The March of Time
Makeup artist works on gorilla makeup
MOT 1939: BEHIND THE SCENES: 'Gorilla' playfully bites at the artist.
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AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Prep Course - 2021 UPDATED! - How to Take Notes?
This video demonstrates how to take notes while watching the training videos. This clip is from the chapter "Exam Tips and Tricks" of the series "AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Prep Course - 2021 UPDATED!".This section...
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Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi: Great Art Explained
Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost entirely a male industry before modern times. Having an...