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100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [2]
Google Arts & Culture includes several educational tools and resources for teachers and students, such as educational videos, art history timelines, art toolkits, and comparative teaching resources. [9] Two features, called "Look Like an Expert" and "DIY", provide activities similar to those often found in art galleries.
The "Tanda Archives" are housed in a modern building, powered by solar panels and with "clean latrines preserved for visitors". According to one of the tour guides, only few facilities are built, in order to avoid "compromising the environment and cultural integrity". Guides speak various languages including English, French, and Swahili. [1]
They are displayed in several parts of the palace, including the new Cumberland Art Gallery. [1] In September 2015, the Royal Collection recorded 542 works (only those with images) as being located at Hampton Court, mostly paintings and furniture, but also ceramics and sculpture. The full current list can be obtained from their website. [2]
Pipilotti Rist was born Elisabeth Charlotte Rist [5] in Grabs, Switzerland, in the Rhine Valley. [6] Her father was a doctor and her mother a teacher. [7] She started going by "Pipilotti", a combination of her childhood nickname "Lotti" and her childhood hero, Astrid Lindgren's character Pippi Longstocking, in 1982. [8]
Media, or mediums, are the core types of material (or related other tools) used by an artist, composer, designer, etc. to create a work of art. [1] For example, a visual artist may broadly use the media of painting or sculpting, which themselves have more specific media within them, such as watercolor paints or marble.
The gallery has 15 original works by the Roerichs [7] and 43 original works by Raja Ravi Varma. [8] Ravi Varma's rare pencil sketches are also displayed at the gallery. [8] The paintings of Ravi Varma which were earlier kept at Chithralaya in Kilimanoor were given to the art gallery by the Kilimanoor Palace as a permanent loan in 1941. [9]
Pre-Columbian art refers to the visual arts of indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, North, Central, and South Americas from at least 13,000 BCE to the European conquests starting in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.