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A Matter of Access: NIAD
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Abstract: SPARK looks in on Mike Starosky and his fellow artists in the NIAD day program as they find new forms of expression, independence and dignity through this award winning program. This Educator Guide addresses the notion of "outsider art" and "art of the insane" amidst the larger question of artistic practice.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting
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Abstract: This book presents the history of painting.
African Americans in the paintings of Norman Rockwell
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Abstract: Carmen Fields reports that the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA is commemorating Black History Month by exhibiting Norman Rockwell's work featuring African Americans. Fields interviews Maureen Hart Hennessey (curator, Rockwell Museum) about Rockwell's paintings depicting events in the civil rights ... More »
Anges Rebelles, Les
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Abstract: "In six minutes, a conjuring trick combining special effects and the magic of painting enables us to enter the world of Jacques Brissot. It is a visual poem that humorously recounts the building of a collage inspired from artist Peter Breugel's 'La Chute des Anges Rebelles.'" Artist Jacques Brissot is ... More »
Architectural Design Workshop: Collage - Method and Form, Spring 2004
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Abstract: This class investigates the theory, method, and form of collage. It studies not only the historical precedents for collage and their physical attributes, but the psychology and process that plays a part in the making of them. The class was broken into three parts, changing scales and methods each time, ... More »
Asian Pacific Heritage Celebration
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Abstract: David Sakura recalls life in Japanese detention camps in the United States during World War II. Program celebrates President Carter's bill proclaiming May 4 - May 10 Asian Pacific Heritage Week in honor of the cultural traditions of Asian Americans. Host Barbara Barrow-Murray speaks with Dr. David Sakura ... More »
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
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Abstract: examines a phase of the Renaissance in Venice when three great masters were working side by side (1500 to 1530). The innovations of Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and their contemporaries influenced European art for centuries. Learn about the historical climate, sacred images and stories, allegories and ... More »
Black Arts
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Abstract: Boston based artists discuss the meaning of Black art. Host Jim Spruill leads a discussion among 17 Boston-based artists on what Black art is and to whom the Black artist speaks. Group assembled includes Orma Jo Flint, Steve Hussein, Hakim Jami, Bob Nellums, Joanne Robinson, Robert Ruff, Joanne Sanders, ... More »
British Painting
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Abstract: provides a brief history of painting in Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries, when English artists began developing their own styles in marine, allegorical, and landscape painting. Paintings are organized in online tours of British conversation pieces and portraits, landscapes of Constable and ... More »
Byzantine Art and Painting in Italy
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Abstract: tours Italian Byzantine paintings of the 1200s and 1300s. The site includes an overview of the genre, historical background, and information on the featured artists, the paintings, their provenance, a bibliography, exhibition history, and full-screen images.
Caring for Your Health
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Abstract: Dr. Emillio Carillo comments on healthcare in the Latino community. Program examines a number of health issues, with a focus on the needs of the Latino and Black community. Host Eduardo Diaz interviews Dr. Emilio Carrillo, cofounder of the Boricua Health Organization of Boston, to discuss problems related ... More »
Deception and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting
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Abstract: illustrates the playful and intellectual nature of trompe l'oeil -- the artistic depiction of objects so precisely that those objects appear real. Twelve images are presented from the 115-piece exhibit, which represents the most comprehensive treatment to date of this phenomenon.
Ellen Banks
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Abstract: Callie Crossley reports on Ellen Banks (painter). Crossley interviews Banks, who talks about how she expresses music visually through her paintings. Crossley notes that the patterns of shapes and colors in Banks' paintings represent music. Crossley reports that each painting is based on a piece of music. ... More »
Fame: Chris Johanson
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Abstract: SPARK explores the impact of fame and notoriety on visual artist Chris Johanson, jettisoned to international art-stardom by his inclusion in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and a 2002 SECA award for emerging artists from the SF Museum of Modern Art. This Educator Guide explores the history and tradition of ... More »
Fauve Painting from the Permanent Collection
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Abstract: commemorates the 100th anniversary of an 1905 Paris exhibition where paintings by Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, and others were jeered as an orgy of pure color, primitive and brutal. One critic called it fauve (wild beast) painting, and the epithet stuck. A special web feature explores the birth and development ... More »
Femme a la Cafetiere, La
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Abstract: Acclaimed theater director brings movement to Cezanne's painting, reproduced in the studio for the camera. [Suzushi Hanayagi,] a dancer from the Kabuki theater, performs the role of the woman, whose slight, almost imperceptible, facial and body movements -- together with mysteriously animated objects ... More »
"Forward" to the Great Escape
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Abstract: In this lesson, the students will read a primary source document from Documenting the American South and examine a painting by Jacob Lawrence to illustrate the conditions of the underground railroad before the US Civil War. The students will create a painting and a narrative related to the underground ... More »
Italian Painting of the 16th Century
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Abstract: is featured in a collection of High Renaissance art. The tour looks at the different styles of Raphael, Titian, and other artists and examines how their artwork differed from the next generation of Italian painters.
Lee Krasner Interview
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Abstract: "Twentieth Century Artists" raw material on the artist Lee Krasner, consisting of three-hour interview on three video cassettes. Tape 1 (60:00): Childhood; influence of Hebrew on her art; influence of calligraphy on her art; attitudes toward feminism; reasons for getting into art; early education; education ... More »
Modern Art and Mass Culture, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Examines significant episodes in the history of modern art from the end of the enlightenment to the early twentieth-century in relation to emerging visual technologies (lithography, photography, the poster, photomontage), urban audiences, and consumer culture. Major artistic movements (Romanticism, Realism, ... More »