A high level overview of Islam, the 5 pillars of Sunni Islam, and the Muslim belief that Islam is the extension of the faith of Abraham, Moses and Jesus.
A video from the Utah System of Higher Education (with special thanks to Dr. Nancy Ross) . Created by Nancy Ross.
What's the difference between etching and drypoint?
Find out how artists use the resistance of grease and water to create lithographs.
Learn about the main types of printmaking: relief, intaglio and lithography.
Discover how artists create different effects with linocuts and woodcuts.
This course covers a foundation in the developing field of arts-based research (ABR) and a basic practicum in the skills for conducting research, critically analyzing data, and presenting findings in ABR.
Including is an instructor's guide and a course layout.
The gun that "won the West" also transformed American manufacturing and marketing. Elisha King Root for Samuel Colt, Experimental Pocket Pistol, Serial number 5, caliber .265 inches, barrel length 3 inches, overall length 7 inches, brass, steel, and iron, 1849-50 (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Bequest of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt), a Seeing America video Speakers: Brandy S. Culp, Richard Koopman Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
A conversation with Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, in front of St. Francis and scenes from his life, 1240s-1260s, panel (Bardi Chapel, Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence). Created by Beth Harris, Smarthistory, and Steven Zucker.
Investigating Rothko's Technique.
What’s the line between inspiration and flat-out appropriation? In this episode of Crash Course Art History, we grapple with questions about artistic originality and authenticity that have plagued the art world for hundreds of years. In today’s world of AI-generated art, it’s only getting more complicated. You will see a few AI-generated images in this video as part of our effort to dive directly into the questions surrounding AI-generated art.
Chapters:
Introduction: AI Art
Dürer's Copycat
Provenance & Authentication
Originality & Copyright
Conceptual Art
The "Hope" Poster
Review & Credits
Credits
Reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate and Processional Way, Babylon, c. 575 B.C.E., glazed mud brick (Pergamon Museum, Berlin). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
In this packet we look at works that span nearly a thousand yearsäóîfrom shortly after the foundation of Islam in the seventh century to the seventeenth century when the last two great Islamic empiresäóîthe Ottoman and the Safavidäóîhad reached their peak. Although the definition of Islamic art usually includes work made in Mughal India, it is beyond the scope of this packet. The works we will look at here come from as far west as Spain and as far east as Afghanistan.
Was da Vinci an artistic genius? Sure, but he was also born in the right place at the right time -- pre-Renaissance, Western artists got little individual credit for their work. And in many non-Western cultures, traditional forms have always been prized over innovation. So, where do we get our notions of art vs. craft? Laura Morelli traces the history of how we assign value to the visual arts. Lesson by Laura Morelli, animation by Sandro Katamashvili.
This essay looks at Italian Futurism. It includes a short video featuring a work by 19th-century scientist and photographer Étienne-Jules Marey, whose chronophotographic (time-based) studies depicted the mechanics of animal and human movement.
The Horses of Saint Mark have a long itinerary through space and time. On this lesson, we will through the visualisation of their whole itinerary to make the students of their relation with powerful states on their whole history.
Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware,1851, oil on canvas, 379 x 648 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), a Seeing America video Speakers: Sarah Alvarez, Director of School Programs, Art Institute of Chicago, Beth Harris, and Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris, Smarthistory, and Steven Zucker.
Byzantine panel with archangel, Ivory leaf from diptych, c. 525-50, 16.8 x 5.6 x 0.35 in. (42.8 x 14.3 x 0.9 cm), probably from Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey), (British Museum, London) The British Museum translates the text at the top of the panel as: "Receive the suppliant before you, despite his sinfulness." Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Jackson Pollock's, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950, enamel on canvas, 266.7 x 525.8 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, © Pollock-Krasner Foundation) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Smarthistory.
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, 1940-41, 60 panels, tempera on hardboard (even numbers at The Museum of Modern Art, odd numbers at the Phillips Collection) Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris.