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In Malay language which I don't understand either, but the still lifes -- the colors, the settings, the textures, the atmosphere ... everything is unusual and interesting. I enjoyed this very much although I don't understand a word he's saying.

La Montaña Sainte-Victoire era para Cézanne una de sus principales musas, repitiendo su silueta en numerosas ocasiones a lo largo de su vida.

Paintings by William Merritt Chase, American Impressionist painter (1849-1916). I love the background music.

Jacek Yerka (born 1952) is a Polish artist who paints amazingly imaginative and enchanting surrealist pictures, full of atmosphere. They're fascinating, unique, and beautiful. If I had dreams like these pictures, I wouldn't want to wake up.

A walk around and through a stick-art installation by Patrick Dougherty, in Lisle, Illinois.

Animated by Aardman. I don't know why the title is Creature Comforts, but I just thought this was very funny. Real, ordinary people were recorded as they mused about art, but you see animated characters speaking with their voices.

La Venecia del siglo XVIII, teatral y decadente a través de los ojos de Canaletto.

Hints and tips from Bob Davies on using a variety of drawing materials including pencils, pen and ink, charcoal, water-soluble pencils and even erasers.

Bob Davies discusses different types of erasers, and demonstrates how easy it is to produce "shiny" metal with a 2B pencil and putty eraser and uses the same kind of eraser to add highlights to an eye.

Bob Davies compares the dip pen and the 'technical' sketching pen and some other drawing instruments, and includes a drawing demonstration.

Turner's main subjects were landscapes and seascapes. He painted historical scenes in order to incorporate these subjects. He became known for a style which incorporated an atmosphere of mist and light. In 1834 he made sketches while the Houses of Parliament were burning and made paintings in his studio based on these sketches. These paintings beautifully showed the effects of fire, light, and water.

Chuck Close explains his process of painting, and why he keeps changing the way he paints while often using the same subjects. Be sure to see Part 1.

Chuck Close shows some of his own pictures and talks about why and how he made them as he did. He might use the same subjects but, by making the picture in a very different way, changes the way that subject is experienced. At least that's what I've gotten from this. Be sure to see Part 2.

The rise of modern western individualism from the 13th-14th centuries was partly shaped by glass mirrors made in Venice. Science and art were also profoundly affected by these mirrors. Here all this is discussed while a glassmaker makes a glass mirror using the same method that was used when they were first made in Venice.

Although other civilizations had mirrors made of bronze or other metals (or people simply looked in water to see themselves), they did not show the clear and "realistic" view you see in fine glass mirrors, which were
originally made in Venice, where the Renaissance began. These mirrors certainly played a big role in changing the world of science and art. This tells how the use of mirrors led to a new look of realism in painting, which you see suddenly flowering in Renaissance art at that time.

Replying to pkulak's comment, I think that there have been in the past and probably always will be works of art that do the job they're meant to do in a very short time (even a few minutes or less in some cases - Some of Andy Goldsworthy's projects, for instance), and not just because we have cameras (now) to record these works of art -- A video camera recorded the making of this mural, for instance and so now anyone can see it at any time - It's will last as long as there's a copy of the video or prints from it. In this particular case, it seems to me, the making of the mural was as important as the final result (but of course it wouldn't have reached nearly as many people, if it hadn't been recorded...Still, it was indeed recorded and so it does still communicate something to us). - JV

An artist called Moose makes a 140 ft. mural (with help) in a San Francisco tunnel by cleaning instead of painting. He saw what impact a clean spot on a dirty wall could have while working as a dishwasher in a restaurant when he tried to wipe clean a spot on the wall but ended up having to clean the whole (dirty) wall.