Lectures tagged "Artists"

David C. Driskell: Artist and Humanitarian
David C. Driskell
February 16, 2008
01:10:08
Artist, educator, historian, curator, and humanitarian David C. Driskell talks about his southern upbringing, his education in at Howard and Catholic Universities, and the many people with whom his life has intersected.
Gallery of the Louvre
Akela Reason
December 7, 2006
00:27:17
Akela Reason discusses Masterpiece of the Month talks by Samuel F. B. Morse.
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Winslow Homer's Watercolors: Markers in a Life Journey
Elizabeth Johns
May 11, 2006
00:52:34
Elizabeth Johns discusses the relationship of Homer's watercolors and some of his oils to his life's journey.
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Chuck Close: Painting from the Grid
Chuck Close
March 24, 2006
00:58:42
Internationally recognized artist Chuck Close talks with Jeffrey D. Grove, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art about working with photographs, painting from the grid, and collaboration with master printers and papermakers.
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living (1900-1939)
Virginia Nicholson
March 11, 2004
01:02:53
Virginia Nicholson explores the way of life of the Bohemian artists of the early 20th century - the majority of them artists, poets, writers, and composers - who were brave enough to jettison Victorian conformity and to invent a whole new way of living.