Observe painter Aaron Douglas working on one of his paintings
Aaron Douglas in 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.Learn more about life on the plains with the photography of Frank Sadorus.
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© American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)See how blue jeans get blue.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Construction of the Sagrada Família began in 1882—and is still ongoing.Media Editor: Miranda Chabot
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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.The B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay took off from the Mariana Islands on August 6, 1945, bound for Hiroshima, Japan, where, by dropping an atomic bomb, it heralded a new and terrible concept of warfare. From The Second World War: Allied Victory (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Archival footage supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org) in association with Prelinger ArchivesAaron 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.
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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.
