Every fall, The Center for Cartoon Studies invites 20 aspiring cartoonists to White River Junction, Vermont for a no-holds-barred education in comics. Those who complete the two-year program earn a Master of Fine Arts degree and are ready to face the hardship of a career in one of the world's most drudgery-inducing art forms. This is their story.

An account of the life and work of the multidisciplinary Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny Madrazo (187...

After the untimely death of his 35-year old brother, an artist explores the questions that surfaced ...
A survey of the painting of Henri Matisse, revealing the development of the idyllic quality in his w...

An account of the short life and the astonishing and provocative work of the Austrian painter Egon S...

The representation of genitalia in the fine arts was censored for centuries: sexual organs were disc...

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the adven...

In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure...

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their resp...

We immerse ourselves in a quest for the origins of Art, among the very first modern humans. The preh...

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective w...

Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about ...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

In July 1987, Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al Ali was shot by an unknown assassin. This documentary t...

A short documentary about the life work and philosophy of William Blake featuring an interview with ...

The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, ...