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Achievement.org is a unique, non-profit entity that has an extensive collection of biographies, profiles and interviews of the great thinkers, achievers and influencers of our time. The site features video segments of an interview with Native American artist Fritz Scholder recorded on June 29, 1996 at Sun Valley, Idaho

 

John Ottis Adams, American Impressionist Painter, 1851-1927 a 3 minute video of he artist's paintings and music from Copeland's Appalachian Spring by brendafohio via YouTube. See also the 8 minute video Frederic Edwin Church by the same videographer.

 

Alice Neel is a 2007 documentary by Andrew Neel, grandson of the artist, who tells the story of an artist who painted people ranging from Communist Party leaders to her neighbors in New York's Spanish Harlem and created an impressive body of work that documents New York and America during the 20th century. Alice Neel premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival that same year. The film has been screened at numerous film festivals. "Mr. Neel juxtaposes relaxed interview footage and archival clips (including a black-and-white video interview in Ms. Neel's cluttered apartment where she feeds pigeons outside her kitchen window) with more ragged, personal footage that reveals a filmmaker struggling to define an indefinable woman," wrote New York Times film critic Matt Zoller Seitz in his review. "It achieves the documentary format's basic goal of illuminating history while also demonstrating through filmmaking choices how an artist's style reveals his or her personality." (source material from Asheville Art Museum in connection with a June 12, 2008 showing at Ashville's Fine Arts Theatre.


The American Museum of Natural History presents Preparing a Museum Group. This 12-minute video, narrated by Ray de Lucia, features archival footage of Wilson working on the Fisher and Porcupine diorama in the Hall of North American Mammals. James Perry Wilson's great artistic skill and feeling are evident in many of the diorama backgrounds in the Hall of North American Mammals, including the majestic view of the Wyoming plains depicted in the Bison and Pronghorn Group. Wilson's views, whether of field, forest, or mountaintop, beautifully convey both the details and character of each scene and fuse imperceptibly with the scene's foreground. Each diorama represents a specific location, carefully selected in the field and faithfully depicted in the foreground exhibits and the background paintings.

 

AOL Television offers Biography: Norman Rockwell ,45m:00s via truveo.com which says of the video: "It is a source of fury to the formal art world that Norman Rockwell was and remains the most visible and beloved of the American painters of this century. His name has come to symbolize the best of an era when American had a single clean, shining patriotic vision. A time when God, country and goodness meant not just something, but everything. While the 320 Rockwell covers for the "Saturday Evening Post" are part of the past, his happy fame lives on in the collections of people as diverse as Richard Nixon, Johnny Carson, Steven Spielberg, Andy Warhol and Ringo Starr. This biography uncovers the complicated man who produced the glorious and uncomplicated paintings that thrilled America for sixty years--from his deathless "Four Freedoms" and "Willie Gillis G.I." series to h is panoply of civil rights, baseball, young love and Christmas classics. This biogrpahy illustrates not only the artist and his paintings, but the nation as Rockwell helped shape it. Filled with the insights of experts and the people who knew Rockwell. A perfect delight.". Distributed by Lou Reda Productions.

 

Arizona Highways Television is a series of programs devoted to exploring the highways and byways of Arizona. The television programs were created in the spirit of Arizona Highways magazine, a division of the Arizona Department of Transportation. Arizona Highways Television was created in partnership with The Arizona Republic. Programs include:

 

ArtsPass® is an online arts and entertainment video on demand network which provides free access to streaming video. The site contains the ArtsPass Library which "features original Arts4All produced streaming videos spanning everything arts: music, theatre, dance, literature, film, photography, visual arts, and arts education. Content, with accompanying Lesson Plans, features well-known and new artists, arts institutions, and educators. Search-and-play simplicity makes it easy to experience your choice." To see four TFAO-related videos go to the "Tell Me About" pull-down menu on the home page, select "Video on Demand," then "Arts Pass Library" and choose:

"Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) (Visual Arts) (10:28) Mary Cassatt was an American-born painter who lived and worked in France as an important member of the Impressionist group. Cassatt's parents were not enthused with their daughter's aspirations to become an artist, preferring instead for her to return home to marry and settle down, but the strong-willed Cassatt proclaimed her independence at age 22 and left America to paint in France. Cassatt's life was marked by her bold resolve to transcend conventional expectations for women and today she is acknowledged as one of the great American artists of the nineteenth century. Written by Michael Patrick Kelly."
 
"O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) (Visual Arts) (15:44) This vivid visual presentation of one of America's most important and successful artists, Georgia O'Keeffe, offers insight into her exhibitions in New York, her life in New Mexico, and her relationship with the internationally known photographer and art impresario, Alfred Stieglitz. Her works include oils, charcoals, pencil sketches, and watercolors as well as objects in clay produced in her later years. Written by Paul Foster."
 
"Rockwell, Norman (1894-1978) (Visual Arts) (14:32) Norman Rockwell was one of America's most beloved illustrators. Producing work for such magazines as Life, Look, Literary Digest, A Boys' Life, the official publication of the Boy Scouts of America, as well as his 321 covers, over 47 years, for The Saturday Evening Post, Rockwell's legacy is found in paintings capturing both the ordinary and extraordinary moments of everyday life in 20th century America. Written by Paul Foster."
 
"Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) (Visual Arts) (20:23) John Singer Sargent, the American expatriate known for his elegant portraits, created more than 900 oils and over 2,000 watercolors along with countless charcoal sketch-portraits and endless pencil drawings, easily making him the most prolific of American artists and one of the most successful portrait painters in both England and America. Written by Paul Foster."
 

 

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