Category: ‘Videos’

• Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School [VIDEO]

   Guide: Thomas Cole’s “The Course of Empire” Thomas Cole (1801-1848) was an English-born American painter and founder of the Hudson River School—a group of artists in the mid-19th century known for their paintings depicting American scenery and allegorical landscapes. These artists formed an American artistic identity that was connected to, yet distinct from, the European [...]

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• The Course of Empire: Narrative and Context [VIDEO]

   Guide: Thomas Cole’s “The Course of Empire” Scroll below to explore the larger contexts behind Cole’s artistry and the story in The Course of Empire, then examine each of the five paintings in detail. The Landscape Thomas Cole is considered one of the first great American landscape painters, and these five paintings are a virtuosic display. His work [...]

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• The Course of Empire: The Paintings [VIDEO]

   Guide: Thomas Cole’s “The Course of Empire” Linda S. Ferber, Vice President and Senior Art Historian at the New-York Historical Society, acts as a guide through Cole’s suite of five paintings in the videos below. The Savage State (1834) The Pastoral State (1834) The Consummation of Empire (1836) The Destruction of Empire(1836) Desolation (1836) Related Topics: [...]

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• The Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe and the New Mexico Landscape [VIDEO]

   Guide: Music Inspired by Art I believe that painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) achieved an important artistic ideal: to create new meanings, previously unrealized connections, and heightened ways of perceiving the world and filtering experience. I seek to do the same with my music video piece, The Faraway Nearby: to offer new insight and new ways of [...]

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• An Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Prints [VIDEO]

  By the 1830s, woodblock printing was a well-established market in Edo, Japan (now Tokyo). Print publishers worked to finance the production of fashionable art in print form. Publishers commissioned artists, like Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), to design prints which were then carved by professional woodblock carvers and printed by professional woodblock printers. Hiroshige was a poor [...]

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• An Introduction to Synesthesia [VIDEO]

  Synesthesia, know as the “crossing of the senses”, is a neurological characteristic that can take many forms. It is not limited to artistic individuals (prominent synesthetes include physicist Richard Feynman and engineer Nikola Tesla), but synesthetic responses have fueled the work of many of artists (including Charles Burchfield). This video produced by Beyond the Notes [...]

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• Charles Burchfield, “Glory of Spring (Radiant Spring)” (1950) [VIDEO]

   Guide: Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), painter Related Topics: An Introduction to Charles Burchfield Charles Burchfield, “Autumnal Fantasy” (1916-44) Charles Burchfield, “Sun and Rocks” (1918-50) Charles Burchfield, “An April Mood” (1946-55) Nell Shaw Cohen, “Watercolors” (2011) Inspired by the paintings of Charles Burchfield

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• Charles Burchfield, “Sun and Rocks” (1918-50) [VIDEO]

   Guide: Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), painter Related Topics: An Introduction to Charles Burchfield Charles Burchfield, “Autumnal Fantasy” (1916-44) Charles Burchfield, “An April Mood” (1946-55) Charles Burchfield, “Glory of Spring (Radiant Spring)” (1950) Nell Shaw Cohen, “Watercolors” (2011) Inspired by the paintings of Charles Burchfield

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• Charles Burchfield, “Autumnal Fantasy” (1916-44) [VIDEO]

   Guide: Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), painter Related Topics: An Introduction to Charles Burchfield Charles Burchfield, “Sun and Rocks” (1918-50) Charles Burchfield, “An April Mood” (1946-55) Charles Burchfield, “Glory of Spring (Radiant Spring)” (1950) Nell Shaw Cohen, “Watercolors” (2011) Inspired by the paintings of Charles Burchfield

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• Charles Burchfield, “An April Mood” (1946-55) [VIDEO]

   Guide: Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), painter Related Topics: An Introduction to Charles Burchfield Charles Burchfield, “Autumnal Fantasy” (1916-44) Charles Burchfield, “Sun and Rocks” (1918-50) Charles Burchfield, “Glory of Spring (Radiant Spring)” (1950) Nell Shaw Cohen, “Watercolors” (2011) Inspired by the paintings of Charles Burchfield

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