To learn about other great moments in modern art, take our online course, Modern Art, 1880-1945 or Pigment to Pixel: Color in Modern and Contemporary Art. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.

Though we might not notice it, frames affect how we see a painting.

To learn more about how abstract artists became the radical thinkers of their time, take our online course, Modern Art, 1880-1945 or Pigment to Pixel: Color in Modern and Contemporary Art. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.

Learn how to paint like Willem de Kooning, one of the key artists of the postwar Abstract Expressionist style, also referred to as "action painting," with IN THE STUDIO instructor Corey D'Augustine.

Continue to explore the multi-layered techniques of Willem de Kooning with Corey D'Augustine in the second part of How to Paint like Willem de Kooning. Over the course of a career lasting nearly seven decades, de Kooning would work through a wide array of styles, eventually cementing himself as a crucial link from New York School painting to European modernism. Physical labor and countless revisions were constants in his work, which ranged from abstraction to figuration, often merging the two. “I never was interested in how to make a good painting…,” he once said. “I didn’t work on it with the idea of perfection, but to see how far one could go…” The female figure was an especially fertile subject for the artist. His paintings of women were among his most controversial works during his lifetime and continue to be debated today.

Learn how to paint like artist Yayoi Kusama, a vital part of New York’s avant-garde art scene from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, with IN THE STUDIO instructor Corey D'Augustine. Yayoi Kusama developed a distinctive style utilizing approaches associated with Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop art and Feminist art. “I am an obsessional artist,” she once said. “People may call me otherwise, but…I consider myself a heretic of the art world.” Learn about the techniques of other New York School painters like de Kooning, Rothko, and Pollock in MoMA's new free, online course, "In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting."

Learn how artists scratch and etch metal plates to create fine surface detail.

Find out how artists use the resistance of grease and water to create lithographs.

​James Rosenquist said about his 1964 painting, F111, "a multiplicity of ideas caused its existence." To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.

Watch Jannis Kounellis combine painting music and dance. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.

Lithography, from the Greek for "stone printing," is an intricate printmaking process that revolves around grease and water resisting one another. An artist will draw with a greasy material on a lithographic stone, and then chemically treat the stone to etch the drawing into the stone, which can then be inked to produce many impressions on paper.

Can performance art be re-performed? How can it be collected by the museum? To explore what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.

Marina Abramović talks about how she shifted from painting to performance art. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.

Marina Abramović talks about the difference between theatre and performance art, "performance is real.". Created by The Museum of Modern Art.

Learn about Matisse’s search for essential form in The Blue Window. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.

A MoMA educator discusses how she teaches “One: Number 31, 1950" by Jackson Pollock, 1950. Visit MoMA Learning for more teaching and learning resources. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.