Portraiture’s Power to Penetrate the Human Soul
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a video that explores the impact of portraiture, from an upcoming sale at Sotheby’s:
Portraiture’s Power to Penetrate the Human Soul
Shared Videos
Short video on Calder exhibition
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a short video on a new exhibition in Los Angeles of Alexander Calder’s work:
Anishinaabe Shoulder Bag
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a great short video on an Anishinaabe shoulder bag in the collection of the Met Museum:
To watch the complete series of short videos for the Met’s installation of Native American galleries, click on the link below:
Installation Tour of Art of Native America
Diane Arbus, master of photography
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a short documentary on the photographer Diane Arbus:
Why Study Art, from the Tate
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a short video on why art is important:
Here as well is the home page of the Tate videos, a compilation to enjoy:
Met Collects videos, Maria Martinez
From Kathleen Steiger, a MetCollects video that includes a Maria Martinez bowl and a Battle of the Little Big Horn piece.
For those who are fans of Maria Martinez and Popovi Da, here is the original documentary showing her work process:
Bernar Venet and the Use of Mathematics
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a short video on artist Bernar Venet. (We have one work by him in our collection, not on view right now. It is titled Four Indeterminate Lines, 2014.)
Claude Monet’s Vibrant Genius
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a delightful short video on Monet’s creative genius and favorite subjects, from Sotheby;s:
William J. Glackens, Cap Noir – St. Pierre, 1902
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a documentary on American artist William J. Glackens. His work, Cap Noir – St. Pierre, 1902, is currently in Gallery 323.
William J. Glackens documentary
Degas, Little Dancer gets a new tutu
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a video from the Met on the conservation of their Little Dancer by Edgar Degas:
Information on silversmithing from curator
From your colleague Susan Arndt, some informative video links shared by Curator Ghenete Zelleke on silversmithing:
“Lastly, I thought to send you the links to four short videos I worked on while at the Art Institute of Chicago showing how a piece of silver was made from modeling it in red wax, making molds from the wax, pouring the silver and assembling the whole. I chose a 17th century silver horse and rider that I had purchased for Chicago and filmed Ubaldo Vitali, a great friend and silversmith, in all the stages of its creation. I thought you and your parents might be interested in seeing them. All you have to do is click on the following to be directed to the videos.”
LaunchPad: Silversmithing, Part 1—Sculpting in Wax – YouTube
LaunchPad: Silversmithing, Part 2—Making Molds – YouTube
LaunchPad: Silversmithing, Part 3—Casting Silver – YouTube
LaunchPad: Silversmithing, Part 4—Hammering the Stand – YouTube
MetCollects articles and videos resource
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, this link below takes you to the “MetCollects” home page, where you will find many short informative videos on various works at the Metropolitan Museum:
Color use in Mughal painting
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, an excellent short video on the color within Mughal paintings, from the Getty Museum:
Exploring Color in Mughal Paintings
“Court painters from the Mughal empire in India created detailed portraits of some of the most powerful and wealthy figures of the 17th century. These paintings traveled to Europe through trade, where their fine lines and majestic subjects inspired artists like Rembrandt. Learn how the Mughal painters employed a variety of natural pigments in their brilliantly colored images of emperors and elites.
This video accompanies the exhibition “Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India” (March 13, 2018 – June 24, 2018) at the Getty Museum.”
Film about Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun
From your colleague Judy Ericksen, a recommendation for a great movie (now streaming on Amazon) about artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun.
Alec Soth
From your colleague, Kathleen Steiger:
I came across this Youtube video (actually from 4 years ago) with photos and an interview with a Minnesota Artist – Alec Soth…we have some of his works at Mia.
He uses a large format Camera and the images he captures are great. The first video (from SFMoma) speaks of the commission he had to photograph Silicon Valley and “the cloud”.
The second video (MN Original) gives a good deal of background on how and why he does what he does:
One of his pieces is on view at Mia in G373. It is one from his Sleeping by the Mississippi series. Here is a link to his website:
Chinese gold work videos
For information on how the Chinese worked gold for jewelry and other objects, check out this series of videos from the Art Museum at the Chinese University of Hong Kong:
Gold wire and engraving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCihYXMpX3M
Gold and silver inlay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIVSSXUQCc8
Splashing method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06v1pY91AvU
Granulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmLcRxly2iA&t=15s
Civilizations, new PBS series
Frome your colleague Richard Lemanczykafka, a reminder that the new PBS series on art history, Civilizations, has begun! Here is a link to the PBS site with synopses of the episodes:
Arts & The Mind, PBS documentary
Here is a video recommendation from our DYS speaker, Maria Genne:
Ideas for touring from author Tracy Chevalier
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger:
Interesting Ted Talk about touring galleries from an author.
This was on ArtDaily this morning but it is also a Ted Talk.
The author is Tracy Chevalier, who wrote Girl with a Pearl Earring:
Roman silver
From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a great article and video from Khan Academy. The video actually was produced by the Getty Museum, and if you look under Research Resources/Online Resources, you will find a link to the Getty museum playlist, with many other interesting videos on materials and techniques.