Jacopo Tintoretto was, along with Titian and Paolo Veronese , one of the three giants of 16th-century Venetian painting. No one else came close to matching the sheer number of pictures he provided for Venice’s churches, confraternities, government buildings, and private palaces.
failure to follow the rules, and in particular of his rapid technique: “In the matter
Artists in the United States are protected under the First Amendment, which guarantees freedoms of speech and press. This module features works created by artists with a range of perspectives and motivations.
Why might this matter? Every artist has a point of view.
Author and art historian Katy Hessel tells the story of these Great Women Artists.
of Women’s History Month, art historian and author Katy Hessel digs into the lives
women artists were to continue to add work to the IAD today, how might the subject matter
How do visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance explore black identity and political
Artists associated with the movement asserted pride in black life and identity, a
Studying artists and their works invites explorations of identity and the human condition. What drives artists to create? What choices do artists make, and why? Sometimes artists directly engage with questions of identity in their artwork: Who am I? How do I relate to others, and how do they relate to me?
For many artists who live and work in the US, contending with notions of identity
A ragtag group of people gathers around an elderly man holding a violin. He pauses, as if interrupted mid performance, and gazes directly at us.
One wears a tall black top hat, a brown cloak, gray pants, and black shoes.
Guitarist Sonia De Los Santos hails from Mexico, where as a child she was exposed to different musical influences. In Auguste Renoir’s Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar De Los Santos sees echoes of her younger self. Her song „Sueña“ is an ode to dreams.
This podcast lives in that crossover, in the space at the center of our five senses
Completed in February 1911, New York is a large, ambitious painting in which George Bellows captures the essence of modern life in New York City. Although the viewer looks uptown toward Madison Square from the intersection of Broadway and 23rd Street, Bellows did not intend to represent a specific, identifiable place in the city.
with action but the overall color palette is subdued with burgundy red, grays, and black
the main landscape elements, especially the foreground stone squares, with thick black
