Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Birthday Numbers Painting Art Lesson
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher demonstrates Birthday Numbers Painting Art Lesson
Music Matters
Choosing the Right Chords in Minor Keys - Music Composition
How do we go about choosing chords and how can you be sure if you've got the right for a given situation? A lot of people are happier doing this in major keys than they are in minor keys so in this music composition lesson we're going to...
Music Matters
Creating Tension and Release in Music - Music Composition
Learn how to create tension and release in music. This music composition lesson explores five particular ways in which tension and release can be achieved in music. While this will be of particular interest to composers it will also...
Curated Video
Pyramid Shape Composition of the Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa's stature and expression seem normal today, but were rather groundbreaking at the time. Portraits of Italian women usually depicted them in profile or looking down. Never looking at the audience as da Vinci does with Mona Lisa....
Curated Video
Romania, Bucovina - Voronet Painted Monastery
Perhaps the most famous and stunning of the painted monasteries is Voronet (Vo ro nets), founded in 1487 by Stephen the Great to celebrate a victory over the Turks. Widely known throughout Europe as "the Sistine Chapel of the East" due...
Curated Video
Romania, Bucovina Painted Monasteries
Among the most picturesque treasures of Romania are the Painted Monasteries of Bucovina (in northeastern Romania). Their painted exterior walls are decorated with elaborate 15th and 16th century frescoes featuring portraits of saints and...
Let's Tute
Painting a Flower Meadow in the Mountains with Watercolors
In this video, the teacher guides viewers through the process of painting a flower meadow in the mountains using watercolors. They explain the materials needed, demonstrate color mixing techniques, and provide step-by-step instructions...
Let's Tute
Creating a Romantic Proposal Composition
In this video, the teacher demonstrates how to create a proposal composition on canvas using acrylic colors. The step-by-step instructions guide viewers through blending colors, adding layers, and creating reflections to achieve a...
TED Talks
TED: Can art amend history? | Titus Kaphar
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...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why is Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring" considered a masterpiece? - James Earle
Is she turning towards you or away from you? No one can agree. She's the subject of Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring," a painting often referred to as the 'Mona Lisa of the North.' But what makes this painting...
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Present Painting - A Lesson on Color Mixing and Value
Link to free resources and worksheets by Ryan Thiele: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1i4djYse0ugBzrnKUmkrE7bl8otT2Aw5u?usp=sharing
Amor Sciendi
The Flagellation of Christ: A Formal Analysis | AmorSciendi
This video is a formal analysis of the composition of Piero della Francesca’s painting The Flagellation of Christ. It moves through competing theories regarding the subject of the painting, and then does a geometric analysis of the...
Curated Video
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...
Curated Video
8+ Vocabulary to Describe a Work of Art
Today you’ll learn band 8 IELTS vocabulary to describe a work of art. You need to be ready with high level, less common words to describe museums and artwork on IELTS Speaking. Many students are worried about being asked questions about...
Music Matters
Burgmuller's Romantic Harmony - Composer Insights
This composer insights lesson explores the Romantic harmony of Burgmüller as written in his delightful character piece for piano “At the Christmas Tree”. It explains the overall Ternary structure of the piece then how the internal phrase...
Curated Video
The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault: Great Art Explained
This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and scandalised high society. Not only for its anti-royalist statements but also for its choice of a black man as the hero. In an age of slavery. In its brutality,...
Music Matters
Is this the Greatest English Work of the 17th Century? - Composer Insights
The famous Dido’s Lament from ‘Dido and Aeneas’ by Henry Purcell. Features of Purcell’s style are unpacked and the word painting & emotional life of the music are explored. A Ground Bass is repeated 11 times, while the melodic line and...
Amor Sciendi
The Harvesters: Who's in Charge? | AmorSciendi
In this video I discuss Peter Brueghel's painting the Harvesters which is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Amor Sciendi
Virgin on the Rocks
Everyone talks about Leonardo da Vinci as the paradigm of the Renaissance Man. His painting The Virgin on the Rocks is perhaps the best example of his many talents on display.
Amor Sciendi
Virgin of the Rocks
Everyone talks about Leonardo da Vinci as the paradigm of the Renaissance Man. His painting The Virgin on the Rocks is perhaps the best example of his many talents on display. Co-written by Tina Bozsik
Amor Sciendi
The Intervention of the Sabine Women
Living through the French Revolution Jacques-Louis David painted moments in history that helped define civilization. The Intervention of the Sabine Women is in that tradition.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The poet who painted with his words - Genevieve Emy
Among the great poets of literary history, certain names like Homer, Shakespeare and Whitman are instantly recognizable. However, there's an early 20th century great poet whose name you may not know: Guillaume Apollinaire. Genevieve Emy...
Curated Video
Comparing Francisco Goya's Women Laughing and Men Reading
Women Laughing depticts a risqué scene, unusual for the reserved and somewhat prudish Goya. The style and composition of this painting closely resembles Men Reading, which was painted next to Women Laughing on Goya's wall. Could the...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Venturing into Visuals - Visual Text Construction & Element Arrangement (Stage 5, Years/Grades 9-10)
Welcome back to Venturing Into Visuals! Get ready for an easy and enjoyable lesson on key elements of visual analysis: context, purpose, modality, lighting and perspective. We’ll also look at more sophisticated aspects of composition,...