Fernand Léger’s Les belles cyclistes (The Women Cyclists) depicts a group of four physically powerful women dressed in shorts and T-shirts at rest during a bicycle outing. The women stand or sit ...

Bring art to your home and classroom through interactive resources for different learning styles and developmental stages. Essays, guides, activities, and videos are designed to support various ...

Student educator Jay Buchanan considers how artists working in various artistic mediums have connected figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology to their own historical contexts.

Thomas Cole (American, b. England, 1801–1848), Aqueduct near Rome, 1832. Oil on canvas, 44 1/2 x 67 5/16 in. University purchase, Bixby Fund, by exchange, 1987 ...

Why do artists sometimes label their works "Untitled"? In this video Student Educator Lingran Zhang explores how the title of Untitled (Colored People Grid) by Carrie Mae Weems relates to the meaning ...

This painting is by the French artist Fernand Léger. Its title is Les belles cyclistes (that’s French for “The Women Cyclists”). A cyclist is a person who rides a bicycle. Léger made this scene of ...

In the early 20th century, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso invented Cubism and shook the foundations of Western art. But in the 1930s, as the rise of fascism brought new urgency to questions of ...

Spend some time looking at this picture. What do you notice? Do you see any patterns? This painting is by the artist Alfred Jensen, who lived from 1903 to 1981. In Great Mystery I [Chinese Origin of ...

Rebecca and John Voyles Chair of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis Any building can be understood within larger patterns of thinking about its ...