A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.

This program takes a deep look into Hokusai's The Great Wave, interpreting the story it tells and scrutinizing formal aspects ranging from the perfect spiral that underpins the wave, to the spiritual balance between water and sky, to the fractal-like nature of the wavelets. Footage of artisans at work demonstrates how plates for The Great Wave were cut, inked, and successively impressed onto paper in vivid colors. Additional examples of Hokusai's...

This program spotlights 33 works of Chinese art seldom ever seen outside of the National Palace Museum. Spanning approximately 5,000 years of history, this diverse collection of pieces includes a Neolithic pottery jar; bronze fangzun and fangyi vessels from the late Shang-early Zhou period; a bronze ding vessel from the Late Western Zhou period; a Tang figurine in sancai glaze; a Ming cup in doucai enamels; and a Qing cylindrical curio cabinet. Displayed...

Meet the painting prodigy who started her career as a toddler.

Before this film, no one else—including the French—was ever permitted to film the Louvre. The priceless treasures and incomparable art can be shared through the eyes of award-winning filmmaker Lucy Jarvis. Set against the panoramic history of France and hosted by Charles Boyer, the Louvre, regal palace and home to so many of the world's great gifts of art, becomes The Louvre, a film acclaimed and winner of 14 national and international awards—so...

A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.

Not so long ago it was fashionable to think of the arts and sciences as opposites, but recent developments are casting doubt on this point of view. Today's artists utilize a multitude of sophisticated technologies based on scientific principles. Cameras, for example, are much-simplified replicas of the human eye. Other artists make use of everyday, but nevertheless captivating, technology. Examples include neon lighting and even copy-art, which uses...

Prevalence of Kitsch Taste in Culture. The fad of Kitsch is based on the ability to mass produce art. They were made with a limited shelf life. This is marketed towards middle class.

In the second part of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," Mr. Collins arrives and proposes to Elizabeth who rejects him, to Mrs. Bennett's dismay. Elizabeth forms an acquaintance with militia officer Wickham, who relates his mistreatment by Darcy. At the Netherfield Ball, Darcy becomes aware of the expectation that Jane and Charles Bingley will marry. Mrs. Bennett is distraught when Mr. Collins proposes to Charlotte Lucas, who accepts, and the Bingleys...