Art
African Museum of Art: National Museum of African Art
Number: VC1487 Grade Level: I Length: 28 min.
Children go on exciting, fun-filled real life Field Trip invites school aged children to go on a
special guided tour "up close and personal." It encourages independent exploration with
suggested reading and resources of further information.
An Age of Reason, An Age of Passion
Number: VC504 Grade Level: J/H Length: 30 min. each part
Part I: An Age of Reason
The playful fantasy and provocative subjects of the Rococo style practiced by Watteau,
Fragonard, and Boucher gave way to strict Rationalism, which insisted on morality in art and the
purity of classical form. This attitude influenced the architecture of Syon House in England and
found expression in David's The Death of Marat.
Part II: An Age of Passion
Striving for individual expression, Romantic painters demonstrated a range of styles and
subjects. Goya's The Third of May 1808 and Gericault's The Raft of Medusa show the human
potential for terror and chaos while Delacroix'z Liberty Leading the People stirred Revolutionary
fervor.
Andy Warhol: A Life on the Edge
Number: VC1027 Grade Level: J/H Length: 50 min
From Campbell’s Soup cans to Marilyn Monroe, this unique pop artist used new and innovative
techniques to make his art memorable. Your students will explore his incredible masterpieces
and amazing style. Enjoy a fascinating look at the artist and his impact on the wildly creative
world of modern art.
Art Appreciation: Enjoying Paintings
Number: VC725 Grade Level: J/H Length: 13 min.
This video will help your students to: understand some aesthetic principles of a "good" painting;
discover how line, shape and color are used in paintings by traditional and modern painters;
understand how paintings are a formal expression of an artist's emotions; acquire an appreciation
of art.
Classical Ideal, The: Art of the Western World
Number: VC499 Grade Level: J/H Length: 30 min. each part
Part I: The Classical Ideal
This opening program traces the origins of humanism and the immortal classical style to Ancient
Greece. The Greek ideal was personified in male and female figures and expressed in the
Parthenon, both majestic and human-scale.
Part II: Imperial Stones of Rome
The genius of Roman engineering and architecture was used to build an empire, while portrait
sculpture exalted its rulers. Development of the arch and new use of concrete laid the
foundations for the unequalled grandeur of the Pantheon's dome and of other splendid Roman
monuments.
Collage Methods: Single Concepts in Art
Number: VC1025 Grade Level: J/H Length: 30 min
Welcome to the wonderful world of collage! Students discover four different methods that
convey specific messages and feelings. Tissue paper shapes create a still life. Letters are cut in
pieces and rearranged to illustrate the power of words. Stained papers are torn into interesting
shapes, then painted and glued. Photographs are combined to create a moving autobiographical
statement. These exciting ideas will inspire your young artists’ imaginations
Color
Number: VC1587 Grade Level: J/H Length 19 min.
Stephen Quiller presents an introductory overview of color concepts and how different color
combinations are used. Some of the color subjects presented are primary, secondary, and
intermediate colors, after-image, intensity, contrast, color, value, as well as monochromatic and
analogous color schemes. A demonstration painting using complementary colors explores how
many of these concepts are used in creating a finished painting. Masterworks also reinforce
these concepts.
Computer Animation Magic
Number: VC1655 Grade Level: J/H Length 58 min.
From flying 3-D logos to stunning full-body motion, this video revels the tricks of 150 of the
world's productions companies.
Creative Cel-ing: Disney Animation Studios
Number: VC1488 Grade Level: I Length: 28 min.
Children go on exciting, fun-filled real life Field Trip invites school aged children to go on a
special guided tour "up close and personal." It encourages independent exploration with
suggested reading and resources of further information.
Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape
Number: VC616 Grade Level: I/J/H Length: 30 min.
This program covers 40 of the most important works selected from the largest exhibition of
Impressionist landscape paintings ever assembled. Complete with an absorbing narration and
complemented with music from Debussy, this visual feast includes the works of Monet, Pissarro,
Sisley, Manet, Gauguin, Cezanne, Renoir, van Gogh and other masters.
Early Renaissance, The: Art of the Western World
Number: VC501 Grade Level: J/H Length: 30 min. each part
Part I: The Early Renaissance in Florence
The rebirth of classical themes and humanistic ideas marked the Renaissance in Italy. Painters
Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Botticelli brought glory to Florence and rationalism and
realistic perspective to their art.
Part II: The Early Renaissance in Northern Europe
Glowing color - made possible by the new medium of oil paint - and minute detail set the work
of the Flemish masters apart from the Florentines. Van Eyck's The Marriage of Arnolifini
showed a "magic realism," and Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece dramatized the preReformation spiritual crisis.
Easy Way to Draw Faces
Number: VC1029 Grade Level: J/H Length: 45 min
Learn key secrets for capturing a likeness as Sandra Angelo demonstrates step-by-step methods
for drawing noses, eyes, mouths, skin tones and hair. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to get a
likeness when you use these special techniques from a nationally acclaimed portrait artist.
Fresh View - Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, A: Art of the Western World
Number: VC505 Grade Level: J/H Length: 30 min. each part
Part I: A Fresh View - Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
Rejected by the official salon, Coubet led a group of radical painters who, in turn, rejected the
standard academic themes and techniques. Manet shocked Paris with Luncheon on the Grass,
while Impressionists represented the world bathed in color and changing light.
Part II: Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionists - Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne - broke new ground with daring
and imaginative use of color and approaches to form. Their work was the basis of modern art in
the next century.
High Renaissance, The: Art of the Western World
Number: VC502 Grade Level: J/H Length: 30 min. each part
Part I: Rome and Florence - the Artist as Genius
Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael display extraordinary talent working in a variety of media,
and elevated the status of the artist in Italian society. Examined are da Vinci's Virgin and Child
with St. Anne and The Infant St. John as well as his scientific drawings, Michelangelo's Sistine
Chapel frescoes and David, and Raphael's Vatican frescoes.
Part II: Venice - Pleasure and Power
The Venetians readapted the classical style with a theatrical flourish. Titan's sensuous nudes
contrast with Tintoretto's monumental Last Supper, which combines brilliant brushwork with
religious fervor. Palladio's architecture preserved the spirit of classicism.
In Our Own Time: Art of the Western World
Number: VC507 Grade Level: J/H Length: 30 min. each part
Part I: Shattering the Myths
The Abstract Expressionists movement established New York as a center for the visual arts.
Pollock pioneered Action painting. Warhol, Lichtenstein and the sculptor Oldenberg erased the
boundary between art and commerce with soup cans, comic books, and a Swiss army knife.
Part II: New, Newer, Newest
With many of the rules tested and discarded, the art world has become international. Art is now
accessible to everyone to create and appreciate. Women artists have gained recognition and
environmental art inhabits public spaces.
Into the Twentieth Century: Art of the Western World
Number: VC506 Grade Level: J/H Length: 30 min. each part
Part I: Into the Twentieth Century
Before WWI, an explosion of new artistic expression ushered in the modern age in Europe. Paris
saw the emergence of the Fauves, and of Picasso and Cubism.
Part II: Between the Wars
Modernism spawned not only Cubism, but also the abstract and the surreal. Le Corbusier, whose
Villa Savoye is featured, and Wright applied the abstract principles to buildings. Dada responded
to the devastation of WWI with nihilism; surrealists Dali, Magritte, and Miro showed Freudian
influence.
Leonardo da Vinci
Number: VC1344 Grade Level: P/I/J Length: 30 min.
Only rarely do genius and humility live side-by-side in the same person. Yet who could dispute
that Leonardo da Vinci--master painter, celebrated artist, and brilliant inventor, centuries ahead
of his time--could lay claim to both titles? This intriguing program not only introduces the
towering figure of the humble man whose deep concern for others won him a lasting place in the
hearts of his fifteenth century countrymen. The amazing breadth and depth of da Vinci's unique
genius and character provides wonderful proof of the power of humility.
Leonardo da Vinci and His Art
Number: VC748 Grade Level: J/H Length: 14 min.
The purpose of this video is to help students develop an appreciation for the art of Leonardo da
Vinci and his contributions to the Italian Renaissance.
Living Treasures of Japan
Number: VC243 Grade Level: I/J/H Length: 60 min.
Amid the clamor of technological and economic success, a reverence for age, custom, and
tradition endures in Japanese culture. The honorable title, "Living National Treasure," is the
highest award that can be achieved in the Japanese arts. Some seventy master craftsmen and
performers are bestowed this title and are charged with passing on the country's artistic heritage
to future generations. This video takes you into the homes and workshops of the remarkable
people who quietly keep Japan's most precious creative traditions alive.
Realms of Light - The Baroque: Art of the Western World
Number: VC503 Grade Level: J/H Length: 30 min. each part
Part I: The Baroque in Italy and Austria
The Church's campaign to counter the Reformation relied on dramatic depictions of religious
scenes, such as Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew and Bernini's moving sculpture, The
Ecstasy of St. Teresa.
Part II: The Baroque in Spain and Netherlands
The royal court in Spain and the wealthy burghers in the Netherlands commissioned major
paintings and shaped their content. With Las Meninas, Velazques brilliantly realized his role as
the court painter, while Rembrandt explored the human psyche in his group portrait The Night
Watch.
Squiggles, Dots, and Lines
Number: VC229 Grade Level: P/I/J Length: 25 min.
See how everything combines. Step by step you can't go wrong; Make a world of your own.
Tempera Techniques
Number: VC1586 Grade Level: I/J Length: 26 min.
The artist first shows how to paint the techniques of opaque and transparent qualities, wet-intowet, dry brush, scraping wet paint, texture, impasto, and collage. Then, she uses these
techniques and more in demonstration paintings of a postage stamp design, a still life, a science
theme painting of insects, and a landscape, explaining how these can be used as exciting crosscurricular projects in the school.
Tour of the Prado, A
Number: VC602 Grade Level: I/J Length: 60 min.
The Prado proudly displays more than six thousand paintings in its extensive and beautiful
collection. They are presented in two sections: European Painting and Spanish Painting.
Watercolor Methods
Number: VC1588 Grade Level: J/H Length 19 min.
Demonstrations with different types of watercolor papers, brushes, and pigments explore wet-onwet, controlled washes, and drybrush, plus innovative methods to enhance watercolor
paintings. These short demonstrations clearly show such things as lifting pigment with a brush,
scarring the paper, and spattering. Stephen Quiller then demonstrates a landscape painting
utilizing the methods shown earlier in the program. Watercolor masterworks are interwoven into
the program to show how these artists utilized these methods.
White Garment of Churches, A - Romanesque and Gothic: Art of the Western World
Number: VC500 Grade Level: J/H Length: 30 min. each part
Part I: A White Garment of Churches - Romanesque
With the fall of the Roman Empire, Christianity flourished with the Church as patron of
monumental Romanesque architecture. Vivid sculpture by Giselbertus for the church of St.
Lazare gave promise of heaven and warning of hell.
Part II: The Age of Gothic
The origin of Gothic architecture is found in the choir of the Abbey Church of St. Denis. The
Cathedral of Chartres, a model of High Gothic style, contains magnificent stained glass with
great technical, social, and theological significance.
With Hand and Heart
Number: VC1026 Grade Level: J/H Length: 30 min
Travel to Arizona and New Mexico to witness skilled elders as they fashion vases, bowls,
blankets, and other meaningful crafts. The Hohokan, Mogollan, and Anasazi communities create
artworks to maintain traditions, memorialize respected elders, and honor the beauty of nature.
You Don’t Look 40, Charlie Brown!
Number: VC1030 Grade Level: P/I/J/H Length: 47 min.
This is a fun-packed celebration of Charlie Brown and friends. Clips from favorite Peanuts
shows, interviews with series creator Charles Schulz and guest performances comprise a very
special program. Join the fun and witness how Snoopy’s voice is created. Learn the story
behind the creation of Linus’s security blanket. Find out where the Charlie Brown/Lucy football
gag came from. Dance to the first music video of the famed “Linus and Lucy” Peanuts theme.
These and much more are yours to enjoy.