Kwakwaka’wakw artist | Eagle Transformation Mask
The transformation mask is a carved and painted sculpture, a status symbol, a costume element and a simple machine all at once. Pulling the strings on the mask allows the wearer to move parts that eff...
23 Helmi 20247min
Auguste Rodin | The Burghers of Calais
Today's mini-episode is about Auguste Rodin and his sculpture of The Burghers of Calais. The story behind the piece is an inspiring tale that defines courage. During the Hundred Years' War, the Englis...
22 Helmi 20248min
Robert Smithson | Spiral Jetty
On the peninsula at Rozel Point on Utah’s Great Salt Lake, Smithson created his most famous monumental sculpture using over six thousand tons of black basalt rocks and earth from the site. The spiral ...
21 Helmi 20248min
Vincent van Gogh | The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh saw little commercial success during his lifetime, but he loved art and he worked to forge relationships with other artists he could learn from. The Starry Night came about late in hi...
20 Helmi 20248min
Jean-Antoine Houdon | George Washington
Jean-Antoine Houdon was one of the greatest neoclassical sculptors in the late 18th century. Shortly after the American Revolution, the governor of Virginia asked Thomas Jefferson to find a sculptor t...
19 Helmi 202413min
Piet Mondrian | Composition with Red Blue and Yellow
Piet Mondrian is best known for painting primary colored squares and rectangles. For this episode, fellow art teacher, Jeff Arndt and I talked about the big ideas that led Mondrian to make such simple...
18 Helmi 202442min
Rachel Ruysch | Fruit and Insects
Rachel Ruysch was an incredibly skilled Dutch painter in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. She was renowned for her still lives. The objects in this work were carefully selected and the image is...
17 Helmi 202435min
Diego Velazquez | Las Meninas
Diego Velazques was one of the most significant painters of Spain's Golden Age in the 17th century. He was a master of both portraiture and genre painting, Las Meninas is a sort of mix of both. We see...
16 Helmi 20249min
