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National Gallery of Art - Virtual Art Tours

A R T I S TS ... Jacopo Bassano ... The Art of Romare Bearden ... Valentin de Boulogne ... Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art ... The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea ... Alexander Calder ... Julia Margaret Cameron ... Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the Vogel Collection ... Pieter Claesz ... Edgar Degas ... Edward Hopper ... All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860 ... Dan Flavin: A Retrospective ... William Harnett ... Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art ... Jasper Johns ... Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955–1965 ... J.M.W. Turner ... André Kertész ... Thomas Moran ... Irving Penn: Platinum Prints ... Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections ... Rembrandt ... Frederic Remington ... The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place ... Mark Rothko ... States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns ... Edward Steichen ... Gilbert Stuart ... Gerard ter Borch ... Claude Joseph Vernet ... Johannes Verspronck

Mainly images and text.

A small amount of Flash Video.

Bruce Blitz - 30 second cartooning tips

How to draw cartoon heads, different shapes, turning heads, facial accessories, expressions, cartoon effects and more.

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Lost Wax Found Bronze - Creating a Bear in Bronze

For thousands of years, artists have used the lost wax bronze casting process. In essence, it replaces the original model first with wax, then with bronze. Today, some of the materials used are decidedly state-of-the-art. But the basic process remains unchanged. Find out more about the process, materials, and sculptor Gerry Balciar's perspective on bronze casting...

Western Visions Art

Paintings from the Show at the National Museum of Wildlife Art

Images from the exhibition. Click small images on the site for larger versions.

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Professional artist

Watch time lapse videos of artist Mary Herbert creating some beautiful works of art

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INSTRUCTION on various Craft and Art Techniques

Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism periods (1100-1850).

Thousands of reproductions.

Includes picture commentaries and artist biographies.

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Art of the Western World

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The Classical Ideal

1.Traces the origins of humanism and the immortal classical style to Ancient Greece.

2.The genius of Roman engineering and architecture was used to build an empire, while portrait sculpture exalted its rulers.

A White Garment of Churches - Romanesque and Gothic

1. With the fall of the Roman empire, Christianity flourished with the Church as patron of monumental Romanesque architecture and sculpture.

2. The origin of Gothic architecture is found in the choir of the Abbey Church of St. Denis and the Chartres Cathedral serves as a model of High Gothic style.

The Early Renaissance

1. The rebirth of classical themes and humanistic ideas marked the Renaissance in Italy, as seen in Florentines Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Botticelli.

2. Glowing color -- made possible by the new medium of oil paint -- and minute detail set the work of the Flemish masters Van Eyck and Grunewald apart from the Florentines.

The High Renaissance

1. Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael displayed extraordinary talent working in a variety of media and elevated the status of the artist in Italian society.

2. Venetians like Titian, Tintoretto, and Palladio readapted the classical style with a theatrical flourish.

Realms of Light - The Baraque

1. The Church's campaign to counter the Reformation relied on dramatic depictions of religious scenes, such as those of Caravaggio and Bernini.

2. The royal courts in Spain and the wealthy burghers in the Netherlands commissioned major paintings by Velazquez and Rembrandt and shaped their content.

An Age of Reason, An Age of Passion

1. The playful fantasy and provocative subjects of the Rococo style practiced by Watteau, Fragonard, and Boucher gave way to strict Rationalism, which insisted on morality in art and the purity of classical form, as seen in the works of David.

2. Striving for individual expression, Romantic painters Goya, Gericault, and Delacroix demonstrated a range of styles and subjects.

A Fresh View - Impressionism and Post Impressionism

1. Courbet and his followers rejected the standard academic themes and techniques, Manet shocked Paris, and Impressionists represented the world bathed in color and changing light.

2. Post-Impressionists Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne broke new ground with daring and imaginative use of color and approaches to form.

Into the Twentieth Century

1. With modernity came new energy and forms in Viennese building and painting. Paris saw the emergence of the Fauves, and of Picasso and Cubism. Kandinsky and others experimented with color abstraction.

2. Modernism spawned not only Cubism, but also the abstract and the surreal. Le Corbusier and Wright applied the abstract principles to buildings. Dada responded to the devastation of WWI with nihilism; surrealists Dali, Magritte, and Miro showed Freudian influence.

In Our Own Time

1. The Abstract Expressionist movement established New York as a center for the visual arts. Works by Pollock, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and the sculptor Oldenburg are examined.

2. With many of the rules tested and discarded, the art world has become international. Art is now accessible to everyone to create and appreciate. Host Michael Wood looks over the past and forward to implications for the future.

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