Claude Monet, The Basin at Argenteuil, c. 1872, oil on canvas, 60 x 80.5 cm (Musee d’Orsay, Paris). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris.
Learn about the tools, materials, and techniques needed for stretching your own painting canvas in this step-by-step tutorial with IN THE STUDIO instructor Corey D'Augustine.
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection includes some of the world’s most spectacular Micromosaics. This film explores this astonishing technique through the recreation of a historic micromosaic, made from millimetre-thin canes of glass at SICIS The Art Mosaic Factory. Learn more about micromosaics from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/gilbert-mosaics. Created by Smarthistory.
This art history video discussion looks at Jan (and Hubert?) Van Eyck's "Ghent Altarpiece or The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", tempera and oil on panel, (closed panels), Cathedral of Saint Bavo, Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432. Second Life correspondents Max Newbold and Sez Zabelin, discuss the closed Ghent Altarpiece (see the next video for a discussion of the open altarpiece) on the Vassar campus in Second Life.
This art history video is the second part of the discussion about Jan (and Hubert?) Van Eyck's "Ghent Altarpiece or The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", tempera and oil on panel, (open panels), Cathedral of Saint Bavo, Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432.
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Hudson River School. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
The OER Textbook used for HUM 122 Medieval to Modern History Humanities Course.Examines written texts, visual arts, and musical compositions to analyze and reflect the evolution and confluence of cultures in Europe, Asia, and the Americas from 800 C.E. to 1750 C.E.
Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreux, 1324-39, gilded silver, bases-taille enamels on gilded silver, stones and pearls, 68 cm High (Musée du Louvre). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
William Holman Hunt, Claudio and Isabella, 1850, oil on mahogany, 758 x 426 x 10 mm (Tate Britain) From William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Act III, scene 1 (a room in a prison): ISABELLA What says my brother? CLAUDIO Death is a fearful thing. ISABELLA And shamed life a hateful. CLAUDIO Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. ISABELLA Alas, alas! Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
William Holman Hunt, Our English Coasts ('Strayed Sheep'), 1852, oil on canvas, 432 x 584 mm (Tate Britain, London). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience, 1853, oil on canvas, 762 x 559 mm (Tate Britain, London). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, collage, mixed media, 1919-1920. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
A major figure in Arab and African modernism, artist Ibrahim El-Salahi discusses his work Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams I (1962-3), a large-scale oil painting at Tate. In 2013, Tate Modern presented the UK's first major exhibition of El-Salahi's work, bringing together 100 pieces from across more than five decades of his international career. Take a look at some highlights from one of the most significant figures in African art and learn more about how he belongs to a broader, global art history as well. Created by Tate.
Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy (Byzantine), c. 1400, tempera and gold on wood, 39 cm x 31 cm (British Museum, London) Speakers: Pippa Couch and Rachel Ropeik. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Does the figure emerge from the stripes of the flag, or do they imprison him? Benny Andrews, Flag Day, 1966, oil on canvas, 53.3 x 40.6 cm ©The Benny Andrews Estate (The Art Institute of Chicago), a Seeing America video. Speakers: Robyn Farrell, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
This art history video discussion looks at Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola & Giacomo della Porta's "Church of Il Gesù", consecrated 1584, Rome; and Giovanni Battista Gaulli's (also known as il Baciccio) "The Triumph of the Name of Jesus", Il Gesù ceiling fresco, 1672-1685.
This art history video discussion examines the "Mihrab" (prayer niche), 1354--55 (A.H. 755), just after the Ilkhanid period, Isfahan, Iran, polychrome glazed tiles, 135-1/16 x 113-11/16 inches / 343.1 x 288.7 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Illuminated Text
Grades 5 -12
Objectives:
Students will gain an understanding of how books began to be produced and how information through the written word was passed on for centuries
Students will describe ways in which art supports literature through decoration and illustration to provide better comprehension and added value to the written word
Students will use principles of contrast, unity, movement and balance to provide artistic ornamentation to text
Students will have the experience of learning an ancient decorative gilding technique
In this assignment, students will use primary and secondary sources, including images, to study the use and framing of violence by Black Revolutionaries. The goal of this assignment is to have students to use the images and documents to consider how race and other factors shape Western views on Black Revolutionaries.
This is an 8 week experience for the college student that begins by setting a learning context through using library resources, especially online databases, for locating images and art that reflect a chosen research topic and creating a mural that demonstrates the students’ comprehension of the chosen topic. The experience includes conducting research on 3 significant events or people in women’s US history. The written research will be accompanied by images or art that the student has chosen (described) as reflective of, or related to the researched event or person. In order to determine the students’ level of information literacy, the research will include a detailed description of how the students located the images. The students will also draw or describe a personalized sketch of one of the researched events or people. The culmination of the research is the design and painting of a collaborative mural depicting the students' research topics.
This Reusable Learning Object (RLO) was created out of the desire to infuse university courses with information literacy or research activities. A traditional research project on significant events or people in history is enhanced with the discovery and analyzing of art and images within the context of history. Analysis not only includes written text but the painting of a mural. The RLO is structured in a way that allows for easy replication and alteration to a variety of subjects and learning levels.