Video Category: Visual art

This talk explores how Duchamp visually integrated chess into his artworks and, more importantly, how he employed the fundamental strategies of chess into his art.

This talk explores winter paintings of Hendrick Avercamp showing crowds of people engaged in various activities: skating, sledding, and playing games.

This talk is on Peter Doig’s art which is a mesmerising exploration of dreams and magic, where reality and imagination seamlessly intertwine.

This lecture explores graphical works by M.C. Escher which play with and make fun of the age-old aim by artists to create three dimensional images in a two dimensional medium.

This talk looks at the body in ancient and medieval medical art, its balances and its magical properties. We’ll look at a wide range of art, charts, paintings and drawings from Leonardo to Dürer, medieval manuscripts, medical manuals and cathedral sculptures.

Join us for an enlightening exploration of the provocative world of 18th-century British artist William Hogarth.

In this talk we will examine how this citizen of nowhere - John Sargent - became everyone’s favourite portraitist.