See Aaron Douglas displaying some of his murals
Aaron Douglas and several of his murals; an excerpt from A Study of Negro Artists, a silent film produced by the Harmon Foundation and released in the 1930s that features many artists active during the Harlem Renaissance.
Archival footage supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org) in association with Prelinger Archives
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Eugène Delacroix painted The Death of Sardanapalus in 1826 or 1827, inspired by Lord Byron's play Sardanapalus.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzOverview of the Statue of Zeus.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The Scream is one of the most familiar images in modern art.
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Checkerboard Film Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn from art curator William S. Rubin about how African art and paintings by Paul Cézanne influenced Cubism, especially as developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, from the documentary Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism (2007).
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Archival footage supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org) in association with Prelinger ArchivesRichmond Barthé working on his sculptures, from A Study of Negro Artists, a 1936 silent film produced by the Harmon Foundation.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.“If for a day joy masters me / Think not my wounds are healed.”
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© Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn from artist Peter Blake about the history of blue paint from the costly lapis lazuli-based ultramarine used by Hans Holbein the Younger in the 16th century to the ubiquitous acrylic-based pigments used by David Hockney in the 20th century.
