Created by The Museum of Modern Art. Learn why Willem de Kooning added raw egg to his paint.
Created by The Museum of Modern Art. Learn the properties of enamel paint and why artists use it.
Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Explore the process of conserving Matisse's The Swimming Pool, one of the artist's most beloved cut-out masterpieces and a centerpiece of the Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition at MoMA.
Though we might not notice it, frames affect how we see a painting.
Learn how to paint like Willem de Kooning, one of the key artists of the postwar Abstract Expressionist style, also referred to as "action painting," with IN THE STUDIO instructor Corey D'Augustine.
Learn how to paint like artist Yayoi Kusama, a vital part of New York’s avant-garde art scene from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, with IN THE STUDIO instructor Corey D'Augustine. Yayoi Kusama developed a distinctive style utilizing approaches associated with Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop art and Feminist art. “I am an obsessional artist,” she once said. “People may call me otherwise, but…I consider myself a heretic of the art world.” Learn about the techniques of other New York School painters like de Kooning, Rothko, and Pollock in MoMA's new free, online course, "In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting."
Learn how artists scratch and etch metal plates to create fine surface detail.
What's the difference between etching and drypoint?
Find out how artists use the resistance of grease and water to create lithographs.
Learn about the main types of printmaking: relief, intaglio and lithography.
Discover how artists create different effects with linocuts and woodcuts.
Lithography, from the Greek for "stone printing," is an intricate printmaking process that revolves around grease and water resisting one another. An artist will draw with a greasy material on a lithographic stone, and then chemically treat the stone to etch the drawing into the stone, which can then be inked to produce many impressions on paper.
Learn Barnett Newman's techniques and how he reinvented the traditional figure-ground relationship. To experiment on your own, take our online studio course Materials and Techniques of Postwar Abstract Painting. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Learn how Franz Kline turned small sketches done on the pages of a phone book into large, gestural abstractions. To experiment on your own, take our online studio course Materials and Techniques of Postwar Abstract Painting. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
Learn about the drip-style painting techniques of one of America's most iconic and influential painters. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.