Oxford Comma
Romanticism Explained Through Paintings
This is just one example of how you can use visual art to examine literary Romanticism. Main elements of Romanticism: Love of Nature Focus on Emotion Fascination with the Sublime Individualistic Byronic Heroes Interest in the...
Curated Video
Great Art Cities Explained: Paris
In the second 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: Paris", we look at three small...
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,...
The Art Assignment
The Case for Surrealism | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our...
Gresham College
The Victorians: Art and Culture - Professor Richard J. Evans
The Victorian age began as an age of realism, in literature and art, and of nationalism and romanticism in music and culture. By the end of the century, however, the high noon of Victorian culture was starting to give way to more...
IT'S HISTORY
Arts and Culture During THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The Industrial Revolution did not just change the way we work but our very social fabric. So, it is only natural that arts and culture underwent a fundamental change as well. Romanticism, Realism and the road to modernity with...
Oxford Comma
Drugs and Poetry: Kubla Khan
Inspiration can be cruel, and artists often feel lost without it. And when it won't show up, which will happen, creative types turn to a myriad of restorative methods: running, isolation, reading, and, most infamously, drugs. But while...
Curated Video
Romantic Movement
This video discusses the influences and philosophies of the American Romantic movement, using examples from poetry of the time.
Getty Museum
Manhatta: A Film by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler
In 1920 Paul Strand and artist Charles Sheeler collaborated on Manhatta, a short silent film that presents a day in the life of lower Manhattan. Inspired by Walt Whitman's book "Leaves of Grass," the film includes multiple segments that...
NativLang
First Contact Survival Kit - learn an undocumented language from scratch
Wandering off your map, you meet people whose language is totally unknown to linguists. Can you learn to speak? Yes. Here's how. Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang Become my patron:...
World Science Festival
John Nash: A Beautiful Mind
When talking about geniuses, the conversation inevitably strays towards topics of eccentricity, or even madness. One needs only to look at the lives of artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Mark Rothko, or to mathematician John Nash...
World Science Festival
Madness and Creativity: Is the Science There?
The tortured artist; the mad scientist; the insane genius. Since antiquity, it has been observed—even romanticized—that the most creative among us are also among the most unhinged. But is there an actual corollary between madness and...
Tate
Life Drawing with Christopher Le Brun – Masterclass
Warning: Contains nudity Christopher Le Brun is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. A graduate of the Slade and Chelsea Schools of art, his work makes patent his strong attachment to the imagery and emotional address of Romanticism and...
Gresham College
The Romantic Child
How did the Romantics invent the modern idea of childhood? This lecture puts particular emphasis on the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth. A lecture by Sir Jonathan Bate, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric 20 November 2018...
Curated OER
Romeo And Alphabet
With a wonderful take on the play Romeo and Juliet, Sesame Street characters romanticize the alphabet. Telly calls out the letters of the alphabet as a banner slowly parades by. This could be a fun way to review the alphabet before a...
TED-Ed
Everything You Need to Know to Read "Frankenstein"
It was a dark and stormy night in 1815 when Mary Shelley began drafting a ghost story in response to a competition suggest by Lord Byron. Find out more about Shelley, her life, and events that influenced what is called the...
The School of Life
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pantheist, romanticist, transciendentalist. Introduce young philosophers to the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson with a video that details his life, his ideas, and his essays.
The School of Life
Goethe
No need to bargain with learners to investigate the life and works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe! Young philosophers view a short video that introduces them to his fascinating life and works.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Romanticism in the United States: Cole, the Oxbow
A video of Thomas Cole's View from Mount Holyoke,Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm-The Oxbow,1836 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The video is narrated by Khan Academy's Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. [5:31]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Romanticism in England: Turner, Slave Ship
A video [4:02] about Joseph Mallord William Turner's Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), 1840 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The video is narraged by Dr. Lori Landay and Dr. Beth Harris.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Romanticism in the United States: Allston, Elijah in the Desert
A video [4:38] of Washington Allston's Elijah in the Desert, 1818 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The video is narrated by Khan Academy's Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Lane, Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine
A video [3:26] about Fitz Henry Lane's Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine, 1862 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The video is narrated by Khan Academy's Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Ingres, Raphael and the Fornarina
A video [3:51] of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' Raphael and the Fornarina, 1814 in Fogg Art Museum. The video is narrated by Khan Academy's Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Cole, Expulsion From the Garden of Eden
A video [3:55] of Thomas Cole's Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, 1828 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The video is narrated by Khan Academy's Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker.