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Instructional Video5:35
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher

Birthday Numbers Painting Art Lesson

K - 5th
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher demonstrates Birthday Numbers Painting Art Lesson
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Instructional Video5:11
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Iseult Gillespie: Why is this painting so shocking?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 1937, in one of the worst civilian casualties of the Spanish Civil War, Fascist forces bombed the village of Guernica in Northern Spain. For Pablo Picasso, the tragedy sparked a frenzied period of work in which he produced a massive...
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Instructional Video6:05
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher

Wild Horses - Expressive Watercolor Art Lesson

K - 5th
Wild Horses - Expressive Watercolor Art Lesson
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Instructional Video0:20
The March of Time

1950: LOUVRE MUSEUM: PARIS, FRANCE: WS Tour bus pulling up to the Louvre Museum (Musee du Louvre). INT VS Tourists & attendees inside walking through art galleries, looking at paintings (art). Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre)

12th - Higher Ed
MOT 1950: LOUVRE MUSEUM: PARIS, FRANCE: WS Tour bus pulling up to the Louvre Museum (Musee du Louvre). INT VS Tourists & attendees inside walking through art galleries, looking at paintings (art). Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre)
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Instructional Video5:01
Curated Video

Acrylic Spray Paint Project For International Friendship Day

Pre-K - Higher Ed
July 30th is International Friendship Day! This is the perfect day to tell your friends how much they mean to you and why you appreciate them. If you're looking for a personalized way to celebrate your friendship, check out this creative...
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Instructional Video3:58
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why is this painting so captivating? - James Earle and Christina Bozsik

Pre-K - Higher Ed
On first glance, the painting Las Meninasc (The Maids of Honorc) might not seem terribly special, but it's actually one of the most analyzed pieces in the history of art. Why is this painting by Diego Velazquez so captivating? James...
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Instructional Video12:52
TED Talks

TED: Can art amend history? | Titus Kaphar

12th - Higher Ed
Artist Titus Kaphar makes paintings and sculptures that wrestle with the struggles of the past while speaking to the diversity and advances of the present. In an unforgettable live workshop, Kaphar takes a brush full of white paint to a...
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Instructional Video5:06
Curated Video

How Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art

12th - Higher Ed
It's been estimated that 1 in 10 works of fine art are forged or misattributed. The truth is, no one really knows how much fake art is out there, because many art counterfeiters are so skilled that their paintings are almost...
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Instructional Video5:02
Curated Video

How Paintings Help You See the World Differently

12th - Higher Ed
Emerging research suggests that paintings might be more than just pretty pictures: how we process what we see in paintings might also impact the way we process the world around us.
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Instructional Video11:26
TED Talks

TED: A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings | eL Seed

12th - Higher Ed
eL Seed fuses Arabic calligraphy with graffiti to paint colorful, swirling messages of hope and peace on buildings from Tunisia to Paris. The artist and TED Fellow shares the story of his most ambitious project yet: a mural painted...
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Instructional Video5:18
TED-Ed

The strange history of the world's most stolen painting | Noah Charney

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Throughout six centuries, the Ghent Altarpiece, also called "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," has been burned, forged, and raided in three different wars. It is, in fact, the world's most stolen artwork— and is considered one of the...
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Instructional Video11:51
TED Talks

TED: Why people of different faiths are painting their houses of worship yellow | Nabila Alibhai

12th - Higher Ed
Divisions along religious lines are deepening, and we're doubting more and more how much we have in common. How can we stand boldly and visibly together? Inspired by an idea from her collaborator Yazmany Arboleda, place-maker Nabila...
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Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

3 Ways Science Can Bust Art Forgeries

12th - Higher Ed
Some works of art can be worth thousands, even millions, of dollars. But what if you aren't so sure that Van Gogh you just bought to hang over your toilet is the real deal? Luckily, we can use science to sniff out fakes!
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Instructional Video14:18
TED Talks

Tracy Chevalier: Finding the story inside the painting

12th - Higher Ed
When Tracy Chevalier looks at paintings, she imagines the stories behind them: How did the painter meet his model? What would explain that look in her eye? Why is that man ... blushing? She shares three stories inspired by portraits,...
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Instructional Video5:25
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you guess what's wrong with these paintings? | Noah Charney

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Prior to the mid-20th century, art restorers took a heavy-handed approach, often drastically altering paintings in the name of "improving" art. Today, they focus on keeping the original work intact with minimal intervention, and must...
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Instructional Video4:59
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The art forger who tricked the Nazis

Pre-K - Higher Ed
It was one of the strangest trials in Dutch history. The defendant in a 1947 case was an art forger who had counterfeited millions of dollars worth of paintings. But he wasn’t arguing his innocence— in fact, his life depended on proving...
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Instructional Video11:23
TED Talks

Haas&Hahn: How painting can transform communities

12th - Higher Ed
Artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn create community art by painting entire neighborhoods, and involving those who live there -- from the favelas of Rio to the streets of North Philadelphia. What's made their projects succeed? In this...
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Instructional Video12:31
TED Talks

Maurizio Seracini: The secret lives of paintings

12th - Higher Ed
Art history is far from set in stone. Engineer Maurizio Seracini spent 30 years searching for Leonardo da Vinci's lost fresco "The Battle of Anghiari," and in the process discovered that many paintings have layers of history hidden...
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Instructional Video4:39
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe | Iseult Gillespie

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Feeling disconnected from creating art within classical conventions, artist Georgia O'Keeffe began experimenting with abstract drawings that defied easy classification. Using the shapes and rhythms of nature to capture her internal...
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Instructional Video3:07
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Distorting Madonna in Medieval art - James Earle

Pre-K - Higher Ed
After Rome was destroyed, people were wary of attachment to physical beauty. As Christianity gained traction, Romans instead began to focus on the metaphysical beauty of virtue, and art began to follow suit. James Earle discusses how...
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Instructional Video5:40
TED Talks

eL Seed: Street art with a message of hope and peace

12th - Higher Ed
What does this gorgeous street art say? It's Arabic poetry, inspired by bold graffiti and placed where a message of hope and peace can do the most good. In this quietly passionate talk, artist and TED Fellow eL Seed describes his...
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Instructional Video8:50
TED Talks

TED: The Sacred Art of the Ori | Laolu Senbanjo

12th - Higher Ed
every artist has a name, and every artist has a story. Laolu Senbanjo's story started in Nigeria, where he was surrounded by the culture and mythology of the Yoruba, and brought him to law school, to New York and eventually to work on...
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Instructional Video4:30
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Michelle Brown: What is a butt tuba and why is it in medieval art?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A rabbit attempts to play a church organ, while a knight fights a giant snail and a naked man blows a trumpet with his rear end. These bizarre images, painted with squirrel-hair brushes on vellum or parchment by monks, nuns and urban...
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Instructional Video15:51
TED Talks

Ursus Wehrli: Tidying up art

12th - Higher Ed
Ursus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art -- by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their component pieces, sorted by color and size.

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