This art history video discussion examines Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons, 1773, oil on canvas.
This art history video discussion examines Jusepe (Jose) de Ribera's "The Martyrdom of Saint Philip", 1639, oil on canvas (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid). The English Romantic poet, Lord Byron , wrote that the artist, "Spagnoletto [the little Spaniard] tainted/His brush with all the blood of all the sainted" (Don Juan , xiii. 71).
Video by Art21. A pioneer of large-format color photography, Richard Misrach has photographed the American desert for decades, examining the impact of human activity on the natural landscape. From his Berkeley studio, the artist recounts his early work, "Telegraph 3 AM," in which he depicted the homeless population of 1970s Berkeley. Disillusioned with the commercial success of his photographs that he hoped would instigate social change, Misrach turned to the deserts of southern California, Nevada, and Arizona. Creating otherworldly images of cacti and rock formations and unsettling pictures of military bombing ranges, nuclear test sites, and man-made fires, for his ongoing "Desert Cantos" series, Misrach explains how “our culture stands out in very clear relief in the desert.” The artist recounts the origins of his "Border Cantos" series, which focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border wall and the artifacts left behind by migrant crossings. This segment follows the artist as he travels to remote parts of the desert, photographing the visual contradiction of the ominous wall against beautiful landscapes and collaborating with the composer Guillermo Galindo to create installations and musical performances that utilize the items found in the desert. Collectively, Misrach’s work chronicles the places where nature and culture collide, highlighting where beauty and ugliness exist side-by-side. Learn more about the artist at: https://art21.org/artist/richard-misrach/
Richard Serra on his sculpture, Band: "you can walk inside and outside continuously and never stop” for more than 70 feet. Learn more about what artists have to say in our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Richard Serra talks about how this sculpture made of 4 identical plates, allows us to explore 3 very different spaces. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Richard Serra talks about discovering "the potential for what steel could be." To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
To learn more about how abstract artists became the radical thinkers of their time, take our online course, Modern Art, 1880-1945 or Pigment to Pixel: Color in Modern and Contemporary Art. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Participatory art was a new concept when the exhibition Bodyspacemotionthings first went on show at the Tate in 1971. Created by the American artist Robert Morris, it consists of a series of beams, weights, platforms, rollers, tunnels and ramps that people can clamber all over. It closed just four days after opening, due to safety concerns over the wildly enthusiastic reaction of the audience. Take a look at this 2009 recreation of the piece and listen as curators Catherine Wood and Kathy Noble talk about Morris's vision of art and participation. Created by Tate.
Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 57, 1957-60, oil on canvas, 84 x 109-1/8 inches (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Robert Rauschenberg, Bed, 1955, oil and pencil on pillow, quilt, and sheet on wood supports, 191.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm (The Museum of Modern Art) © 2013 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Drought and rain govern how this work of art is seen. Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1500 (if unwound) x 15 foot spiral of basalt, sand, and soil ©Holt-Smithson Foundation Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
On the borders of Tassili N'Ajjer in Algeria, also a World Heritage site, this rocky massif has thousands of cave paintings in very different styles, dating from 12,000 B.C. to A.D. 100. They reflect marked changes in the fauna and flora, and also the different ways of life of the populations that succeeded one another in this region of the Sahara. Source: UNESCO TV / © NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai
Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell, 1880-1917, plaster (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker When the building, earlier on the site of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, was destroyed by fire during the Commune in 1871, plans were drawn up to replace it with a museum of decorative arts. Rodin won the competition to design a great set of doors for its entry way. Although the museum was never built, Rodin continued to work on the doors. They became an ongoing project; a grand stage for his sculptural ideas. It's fitting that the plaster of this great unfinished sculpture, The Gates of Hell, is now on display at the d'Orsay, the former railway terminal that was built on this site instead of the museum of decorative arts and that, by lovely coincidence, was converted into one of the world's great art museums. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Ruins in Modern Imagination: The Roman Forum (part 1), an ARCHES video. Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Ruins in Modern Imagination: The Roman Forum (part 1), an ARCHES video. Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Ruins in Modern Imagination: The Roman Forum (part 2, the Renaissance and after), an ARCHES video, speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Shreena Desai.
Ruins in Modern Imagination: The Roman Forum (part 2, the Renaissance and after), an ARCHES video, speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker Part 1: https://youtu.be/Q1hFeCS0Y3Y Part 3:https://youtu.be/sUS3sh3MjuM. Created by Beth Harris and Shreena Desai.
Ruins in Modern Imagination: The Roman Forum (part 3, Enlightenment to World War II), an ARCHES video, speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker Part 1: https://youtu.be/Q1hFeCS0Y3Y Part 2: https://youtu.be/ZNc4DBAoM4g. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Ruins in Modern Imagination: The Roman Forum (part 3, Enlightenment to World War II), an ARCHES video, speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
Video by SFMOMA. Artist Kara Walker discusses her interest in popular literature, including romance novels, slave narratives, and even Thomas F. Dixon's 1905 novel The Clansman, and how all of these have influenced her work. Created by Smarthistory.