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Heritage: Audiovisual material for secondary education
Do you want to get started with audiovisual material for heritage lessons? On Archive for education you will find inspiration about heritage and STEM, heritage and Dutch, heritage and citizenship, heritage and historical awareness, …
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Was Jan Van Eyck a genius?
Leonardo Da Vinci needs no introduction. The world star of the 15th and 16th centuries would have known no equal, but is that true? Wasn't there a homo universalis with Jan Van Eyck a few decades earlier in our own little Belgian country or is …
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What is so special about the Lamb of God?
The Ghent Altarpiece is considered one of the most important Belgian paintings ever, but what can you actually see? Religious historian Danny Praet (UGent) was fascinated by this polyptych as a child and shows us that there is much more to see …
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What is art?
What if you just color in a number of rectangular surfaces, like Mondrian, are you making art? Or if you stick a banana to the wall, like Maurizio Cattelan? What exactly is art and how has that idea evolved over the centuries? How did we get from …
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Typography: Historical overview
In this short (animation) film you can see a short history of typography. You will see how fonts were created and how they evolved in different font families.
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Was Van Eyck a marketer rather than an artist?
Was Van Eyck an artistic genius? Of course! He was already renowned in his time as a great talent and is today considered one of the founders of the school of the Flemish Primitives. But don't we also remember Van Eyck's genius today to a …
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How normal is Photoshop?
The legs a little longer, the breasts a bit thicker and the skin a bit whiter / browner. There is regular serious tackling on photoshopped models (and on the magazines / sites where those photos appear). But ... according to Prof. Koenraad …
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Do you recognize a painting made by a robot?
Ann Dooms is a mathematician. She figures and works at the VUB, but you can also find her occasionally in art museums. Because she can program computers to make beautiful art. But what are we with that? Is it still art? Can we call a computer an …
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ARTtube: Video channel of Belgian and Dutch museums
ARTtube is the online video channel of museums from the Netherlands and Belgium.
ARTtube contains special interviews with leading artists and designers, as well as atmospheric portraits of inspiring makers. The museums and presentation institutions …
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