Painting

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of painting.

Talks about Painting

12:52

Titus Kaphar

Can art amend history?

Posted Aug 2017

13:08

Alyssa Monks

How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection

Posted Oct 2016

11:22

Vanessa Ruiz

The spellbinding art of human anatomy

Posted Aug 2016

11:26

eL Seed

A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings

Posted Jul 2016

15:00

Amit Sood

Every piece of art you've ever wanted to see — up close and searchable

Posted Jun 2016

17:33

Elizabeth Lev

The unheard story of the Sistine Chapel

Posted Jan 2016

7:04

Alexa Meade

Your body is my canvas

Posted Sep 2013

12:34

Maurizio Seracini

The secret lives of paintings

Posted Oct 2012

Exclusive articles about Painting

Gallery: Pretty poison

Artist and professor John Sabraw is turning industrial acid runoff into striking pigments and paints that could be used to save Ohio’s rivers and streams. In Ohio, rain is a mix...

Gallery: Maira Kalman’s girls standing on lawns

Maira Kalman is an artist who effortlessly embodies whimsy and gravitas. Known for her children’s books and New Yorker covers, of late she’s been painting up a storm with belove...

Art that blurs the line between paint and photograph

Alexa Meade doesn’t paint on canvas. No, as she explains in her talk from TEDGlobal 2013, she paints on something very different — human skin. “If I want to paint your portrait,...