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Come to Gainesville, Florida and meet outsider artist Alyne Harris. She paints angels. Why? Because it gives her joy. Black angels, white angels, she paints them all "because there's no particular color up there in heaven."
Featured in episode: Flight.
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Bouncing eyeballs, wiggling necks, fingers that march around like infantry. Animator Bill Plympton finds humor in impossible contortions of the human body. His characters are twisted, stretched, pushed, pulled, even exploded.
Featured in episode: Let's Get Physical.
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As long as artists have been putting charcoal to paper and paint to canvas, the body has been the subject of careful, and sometimes daring, exploration.
Featured in episode: The Body.
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For Tracey Emin, international art star, exhibitionist, and provocateur, there are no secrets. "Keeping secrets is one of the most dangerous things you can do," she says. "I'm interested in cracking them open and revealing things."
Featured in episode: Kiss & Tell.
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Some people complain that all of Ann Gale's paintings look blurry. Gale, of course, sees things differently. "Your brain, when it's putting things together, it's trying to name it," she says. "It's trying to say 'nose, eyebrow, hair.' And I'm trying to paint at a place before that."
Featured in episode: Inspiration.
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"Build it and they will come." That's the not-so-old movie slogan that Gary Greff lives by. A schoolteacher turned metal sculptor, Greff is trying to save his hometown of Regent, North Dakota (population 268) by building a folk-art tourist attraction, the Enchanted Highway.
Featured in episode: The Road.
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When John and Vivian Hewitt married in 1949, little did they know that they would also have a love affair ... with art. They started collecting soon after they married, using their cash wedding gifts to buy art.
Featured in episode: Collectors.
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Damien Hirst's artworks confront the tough stuff -- things like death and mortality -- immutable realities of life that science can't touch. EGG spends some time with Hirst in New York at his solo show "Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings," and takes a close look at how Hirst's work faces these truths.
Featured in episode: Unnatural Science.
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| The History of Food in Art: |
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Who knew that food would provide a tasty entree into the history of art? The History of Food in Art begins with cave paintings in France, drops in on The Last Supper, faces mortality with 17th century Dutch still lifes and enjoys its 15 minutes of fame with Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup cans.
Featured in episode: Eat Me.
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Most people hear the name "Dennis Hopper" and think of movies like EASY RIDER and APOCALYPSE NOW. But Hopper is more than a world-class actor and director. He is a world-class artist and art collector.
Featured in episode: Collectors.
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If you need proof that nothing lasts forever and that beauty is impermanent, take a stab at ice sculpting. EGG bundles up and heads out to the 2002 Winter Olympics Arts Festival in Provo, Utah, where 30 teams from across the globe go for the gold.
Featured in episode: Slippery When Wet.
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