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Lisa Yuskavage & Johannes Vermeer

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A contemporary artist of luminous paintings visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit Vermeer and the Delft School, and shares her passion for the 16th-century Dutch master of light on canvas.

Artist Wayne Thiebaud

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Jackson Pollock’s Musical Refuge

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Paint Like Bob Ross

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Now Playing: Dox Thrash

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Chuck Close’s Faces

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For over 30 years he has been making huge, meticulous paintings of faces — 9 foot, looming images of himself, and of friends like the composer Philip Glass and the painter Robert Rauschenberg. Kurt Andersen visits with Chuck Close, one of today’s most admired portraitists, at his New York studio.

Eastern Orthodox Iconography

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A Russian painter and his son pass on their knowledge to a new group of iconographers in Santa Fe. (Originally aired: November 10, 2001)

The Icarus Paintings

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The myth of Icarus symbolizes fleeting glory, and the foolishness of flying too high, literally and figuratively. A story about Spencer Finch, a painter who tried to depict Icarus’ hubris and doom. Produced by David Krasnow.

Miniature Paintings

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In India hundreds of years ago, tiny paintings the size of a leaf held political and social and spiritual meaning. Now, Shahzia Sikander, an artist in New York City, has taken the genre and turned it into something looser, but still small and jewel-like. Produced by Sarah Lilley.

damali ayo

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“Nude” is also the name of a color — that of the pinkish “flesh” crayon, or a shade of women’s hosiery. The artist and writer damali ayo decided to create a series of paintings based on a different tone of nude — her own, un-pink skin. So she visited a series of paint stores, took […]