Director's Choice - Achelous and Hercules by Thomas Hart Benton
Object Details
- Creator
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
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- 6,440
- Video Title
- Director's Choice - Achelous and Hercules by Thomas Hart Benton
- Description
- Achelous and Hercules by Thomas Hart Benton is a raucous, gaudy, vibrant mural, 22 feet long, full of surging shapes and churning rhythms. By the time Benton painted it for a Kansas City department store in 1947, he had already been tagged by the East Coast critics as an uncouth, outspoken, provincial artist, so he may have been playing to his critics with his bright colors and athletic figures.
- Video Duration
- 3 min 35 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington DC Gallery Place Portrait Lunder Luce Conservation Kogod sculpture statues web series short film museum landmark culture humanities visual arts
- Uploaded
- 2014-02-03T19:11:36.000Z
- Type
- YouTube Videos
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- americanartmuseum
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- YouTube Channel
- americanartmuseum
- YouTube Category
- Education
- Topic
- Art, American
- Record ID
- yt_ZW-HRtvIv1E
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