Hi, what do you want to do?
Curated Video
Exploring Pop Art at the Guggenheim
In this video, the hosts explore the famous Guggenheim Art Museum in Manhattan, NY, and discuss the concept of pop art and its iconic artists. They highlight artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Keith Haring, Barbara...
Curated Video
Exploring Pop Art and Culture: Connecting Through Interconnectedness
This video explores the world of pop art and culture, highlighting its importance in connecting people and celebrating everyday objects. It introduces key concepts such as interconnectedness and accessibility, emphasizing that pop art is...
Curated Video
Exploring Popular Culture: From Music to Fashion and Art
In this video, Nova takes kids on an exploration of popular culture, including pop art, pop music, and fashion trends throughout different decades. They learn about the influence of popular culture on society and how it evolves. The...
Great Big Story
He’s the Most Licensed Artist in History
Discover the incredible journey of Romero Britto, from a challenging childhood in Brazil to becoming the most licensed artist in history.
Curated Video
Pow! Bang! Zap! Pop Art Project
April 28th is National Superhero Day! Are you looking for a fun way to celebrate your love of superheroes? Check out this Comic Book Pop Art Project! In this video, Jessie shows you how to make an art piece in the style of pop art, an...
The Art Assignment
How to Visit an Art Museum | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
In which we go to The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and give you some pointers on how to visit an art museum. Seems easy enough, but there are ways to maximize your experience. What are your museum tricks...
The Art Assignment
The Case for Copying | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Sampling, appropriating, borrowing, stealing. Whatever you want to call it, artists have been copying since time immemorial. We look into the history of the practice, and share our theories of why it is done, and what it can offer us.
Curated Video
Photorealism: The Art of Reproducing Reality
This video explores the art style of photorealism, where artists aim to recreate images and subjects in a way that appears incredibly realistic. It discusses the origins of photorealism and explains the techniques used by artists to...
Curated Video
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Untitled (Skull)': Great Art Explained
In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion.
In a single...
In a single...
Curated Video
Andy Warhol's Marilyn: Great Art Explained
Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th...
The Art Assignment
The Case for Realism
What's the point of making realistic paintings when photography can do the trick? We look at the history of artists recreating the world as we see it and ponder why it's still happening.
The Art Assignment
Eat Like Andy Warhol
Explore the art and life of Andy Warhol through the food he depicted as well as the food he actually ate. We work our way through the ultimate Andy Warhol tasting menu.
Curated Video
The Golden Age of Illustration
The Golden Age of Illustration flourished at the turn of the 20th Century, when artistic flair collided with new technology.
The School of Life
Art/Architecture - Andy Warhol
Images of soup cans and of Marilyn Monroe connect to represent commerce and celebrity: the pillars of pop art and the source of inspiration for Andy Warhol. A brief video explores the four big ideas behind Warhol's work.
Biography
Andy Warhol- Mini Biography
Pop artist Andy Warhol is featured in a short mini-biography that provides a brief overview of his life and work.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: James Rosenquist, "F 111," 1964 65
In this video [1:43] James Rosenquist said about his 1964 painting, F111, "a multiplicity of ideas caused its existence." He wanted to specify that whenever one looked at it, it would exist because of the peripheral vision that extends...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Studio Tour: Thomas Lanigan Schmidt
In this video [3:28] Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt brings us into his NYC studio. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: "Map" by Jasper Johns, 1961: Mo Ma Education
In this video [2:18] a MoMA educator discusses how he teaches 'Map' by Jasper Johns, 1961.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Johns, White Flag
In this video [2:55] Met curator Ian Alteveer on reticence in Jasper Johns's White Flag, 1955.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Peter Blake: Studio Visit
Take a look inside the studio of artist Peter Blake, whose 1960s paintings and collages made him a leader of the Pop art movement. [3:38]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Patrick Caulfield
Learn how British artist Patrick Caulfield radically re-imagined traditional genres such as still life and domestic interiors in his pop art creations. [3:59]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Niki De Saint Phalle
Learn about artist Niki de Saint Phalle, and how Pop art was a vehicle for international and women artists to disrupt an art history that they saw as belonging to mostly male artists in a US-UK context. [3:55]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Roy Lichtenstein: Diagram of an Artist
Go deeper into Roy Lichtenstein's life and work. Through archival footage of Lichtenstein at home and at work in his studio, as well as interviews with his wife Dorothy and friend Frederic Tuten, take a look beyond the surface of his...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Pop Art?
What makes art 'pop'? Join actor Alan Cumming as he whips through the history of pop art in America and Britain, from Andy Warhol to Peter Blake. Can a can of soup be a work of art? Do you think art should draw on the stuff of our...