Your Guide To The Best Art DVDs

Art of Marbling DVD

Explore the ancient art of marbling. This art form is an inexpensive, fool-proof, monoprinting process that is great fun as a class project. Learn how to create these ...(read more)

Art of Paris DVD

Although Paris is home to many fabulous museums that are filled with artistic treasures beyond belief, the tourist discovers that art is literally everywhere in the beautiful ...(read more)

ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: ALBERTO GIACOMETTI

The son of a painter, Alberto Giacometti was born in 1901 in Italian-speaking Switzerland. At 18, he left school to find himself. Soon after, he announced that he would ...(read more)

ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: FRANCIS BACON

One of five children, Francis Bacon was born in Dublin to English parents in 1909. By the late twenties, he had settled in London and was making a name for himself as a ...(read more)

ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: HENRI MATISSE

Born in 1869 in France, Henri Matisse is regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th century art. He studied law and was working as a clerk when he became ...(read more)

ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: MAN RAY

Inventive, audacious, with an effervescent imagination, and a continual willingness to call traditional notions of art into question, Man Ray was the quintessiential ...(read more)

ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: MARC CHAGALL

Born in Russia in 1887, Marc Chagall came to Paris in 1910 and entered the arena of European painting. From his Belorussian and eastern Jewish origins, Chagall brought into ...(read more)

ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: PIET MONDRIAN

Piet Mondrian tested the limits of abstraction in his art. By radically simplifying composition and color, Mondrian sought to express only the universal absolutes that ...(read more)

ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: RENÉ MAGRITTE

Belgian surrealist painter Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte was born in 1898, the son of a merchant. His first solo exhibition took place in Brussels in 1927, at which point ...(read more)

ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: WASSILY KANDISKY

Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky is generally regarded as an originator of abstract painting and one of the most important innovators in modern art, both as an artist and as ...(read more)