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Tracks the overnight celebrity of Marla Olmstead, a toddler who creates gallery-worthy paintings on the dining room table of her family home. Sales of her paintings reach $300,000. Then the bubble burst. When a 2005 profile by '60 minutes' suggests that Marla had help making her paintings, the finger is pointed at her father, an amateur artist and night manager at Frito Lay. Almost overnight, her family is ensnared in a web of accusation and denial - the burden of proof placed squarely in their lap. Is Marla a child prodigy or an innocent victim of a hoax?.

Explains who artists are and how they see the world through descriptions of a young female dinosaur artist who uses her imagination to repaint a cityscape with bright colors in order to bring beauty to those who live there.

A comprehensive record of the greatest achievements in the history of Western culture, covering art, music, and literature from the Middle Ages through the 19th century.

Features four separate programs each of which explores different aspects of the life and works of Rembrandt van Rijn. Rembrandt, Dutch painter, draftsman, and etcher of the 17th century, was a giant in the history of art.

Through in-depth profiles and dynamic behind-the-scenes footage featuring artists speaking directly about their inspirations and ideas, Season Five shows a broad range of artistic practice, technical innovation, and experimentation, from artists tackling large-scale collaborative projects in hangar-like studios to those working in the quiet of more intimate studio settings.

Provides instructions for learning how to draw more than 100 everyday items, and discusses drawing tools and materials, color theory, and drawing and painting techniques. Includes color illustrations and projects.

Profiles the lives and works of 100 Renaissance painters and sculptors including Michelangelo, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Jan van Eyck, and others.

Presents a progression of watercolor portrait painting approaches, demonstrating principles of design and emphasizing artistic rather than photographic representation.

Artist and teacher James Kirk reviews the elements of design in drawing and painting and provides exercises designed to lead up to the painting of a complete portrait in watercolors.

Introduces the life and art of twentieth-century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso through a retrospective of the paintings, sculptures, prints, and ceramics he created at different periods of his long career.