Styles & Periods

• Artists
• Styles & Periods
• Associations
• Glossary
• Projects
• Purchase Guides

Video Art

Video Art combines technology with the visual arts, blending text, technology, music, and images together. In its most literal sense, Video Art is art that appears on video. However, the term can also mean any art that uses video and television equipment in its presentation, as well as art that is generated by means of video. Korean artist Nam June Paik is an artist strongly associated with Video Art. In 1965, after settling in New York, the artist bought a recorder, and, using the state-of-the-art technology, created and showed his first work on the same day. Later, Paik collaborated with cellist Charlotte Moorman in a performance where she wore only a bra made of two screens while playing. Paik is considered more of an experimental performer, while Bill Viola uses video to create works of ethereal images concerned with memory. Viola installs his often 12 hour-long videos, influencing Installation Art with his introduction of movement and time. As technology evolves, so do the ways in which video art can be realized.

Feeling inspired? Try out these fine products…

From $1.50 558 Series White Charcoal Pencil by General's The original Charcoal White	From $1.24 Goldfaber Aqua Watercolor Pencils by Faber-Castell Vivid, lightfast colors!	From $27.95 Field Guide to Color by Roost Books An interactive workbook for understanding how color works.
From $15.52 Combo Bamboo Pen & Brush by Yasutomo Double down on functionality!	Up to 40% Off Rembrandt Fine Art Graphite & Sketching Sets by LYRA Traditional pencils for professional artists!	From $23.95 Expressive Abstracts in Acrylic by Search Press 55 innovative projects, inspiration, & techniques to paint.