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The Real Scene Behind a Renoir Masterpiece
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Complete video at http://fora.tv/2012/03/07/Renoir_and_the_Woman_of_Paris_Anne_Distel Impressionism expert Anne Distel shows Renoir's Bal du Moulin de la Galette and reads a contemporaneous quote about the painting's inspiration. Distel admits that the real setting was "seedy", and far less tame than the painting would suggest. ---- In chara... Read more

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- -: The Real Scene Behind a Renoir Masterpiece

March 16, 2012 (about 12 years ago)

Complete video at http://fora.tv/2012/03/07/Renoir_and_the_Woman_of_Paris_Anne_Distel Impressionism expert Anne Distel shows Renoir's Bal du Moulin de la Galette and reads a contemporaneous quote about the painting's inspiration. Distel admits that the real setting was "seedy", and far less tame...

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Source: Fora.tv

- -: TEDxWaterloo - Laurie Wonfor Nolan - Painter of Live Music

April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

A visual artist, Laurie had her first large scale 'plein aire' show in Toronto in December of 1999. Currently she is represented by galleries in Toronto, Ottawa and Bracebridge, and her work is featured internationally in many private and corporate collections. The 'in the moment' and honest appr...

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- -: TEDxDanubia 2011 - Keren Hanan - Music in Colours

May 7, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)

Keren Hanan is concert pianist and painter. In her works Keren studies the relationship between music and painting. Having been familiar with both artforms since early childhood her works are the authentic imprints of the intertwined existence of music and fine art. It is often hard to explain th...

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- -: TEDxBrisbane 2011 - Hazel Dooney - Art and an undistracted conversation - and the dealer is doomed

November 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)

In the first half of 2011, the Australian Art Auction Record listed Hazel Dooney among the top 50 most traded artists by value across Australian and New Zealand: at no. 41, she was just below the late Lloyd Rees, and one of very few women -- and one of very few artists under 35 -- included. www.h...

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- -: Raghava KK: Five lives of an artist

February 26, 2010 (about 14 years ago)

http://www.ted.com With endearing honesty and vulnerability, Raghava KK tells the colorful tale of how art has taken his life to new places, and how life experiences in turn have driven his multiple reincarnations as an artist -- from cartoonist to painter, media darling to social outcast, and s...

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- -: Charlie Rose Greenroom - Julian Schnabel

February 11, 2008 (about 16 years ago)

Charlie Rose Greenroom - Julian Schnabel

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- -: TEDxNIDBangalore - Abhishek Hazra - Floccinaucinihilipilification or "Visual Arts meets Geekdom"

November 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)

Abhishek Hazra shares with us the confluence of design, visual arts and technology. Abhishek Hazra is a graphic designer, visual artist and art critic based in Bangalore. His work focuses on the exploration of the intersections between technology and culture depicted through animated shots and p...

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- -: Ross King - Meissonier's Forgotten Legacy

January 26, 2007 (over 17 years ago)

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=565 Author Ross King discusses the work of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, a 1800s French Classicist painter who was phenomenally popular in his own time, but remains largely forgotten today. ----- Ross King talks about "The Judgement of Pa...

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Raghava KK: Five Lives of an Artist

February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)

In this thoroughly enjoyable talk, artist Raghava KK tells us about his life and his art. He narrates how various reincarnations, of being born again has defined his life and his art in very meaningful ways.

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Source: TED

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