Great Art Explained is a video series that focuses on one piece of art per episode, breaking it down, using clear and concise language free of 'art-speak'.
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Ep 12020-05-29
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version)
The Mona Lisa is without doubt the most famous painting in the world, yet perhaps …
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Ep 22020-06-26
Picasso’s Guernica
Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has …
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Ep 32020-07-02
Michelangelo's David
Michelangelo was the first superstar artist. He was a sculptor, a painter, an architect, a …
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Ep 4
The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault
This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and …
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Ep 52020-08-02
Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas"
Frida Kahlo is the most famous female artist in history. She deviated from the traditional …
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Ep 62020-08-30
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck has baffled art historians ever since it was …
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Ep 72020-09-03
Artemisia Gentileschi
Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 …
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Ep 82020-10-08
Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych
Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s …
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Ep 92020-11-06
Monet's Water Lilies
Claude Monet is often criticised for being overexposed, too easy, too obvious, or worse, a …
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Ep 102020-11-27
Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals
On the 25th February 1970, the Tate gallery in London received nine Mark Rothko canvasses, …
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Ep 112020-12-29
The Thinker by Rodin
The Thinker, captured in a moment of concentrated introspection has come to represent a multitude …
