Arts and Music Lessons
BrainPOP Lessons organized by Topic.
'60s Folk
Learn about 1960s folk and protest music, and musicians like Dylan and Seeger!
Alvin Ailey
Meet Alvin Ailey, an innovator in modern dance, who brought African-American culture to the masses.
Architecture
You want Architecture? We’ve got Modern, Renaissance, Gothic, Tudor--so how do you like your buildings?
Blues
Delta, Memphis, or Chicago, they’re all part of a uniquely American form of music—the blues!
Brass Instruments
Trumpets, tubas, trombones and that guy Miles Davis: They’re beautifully full of hot air!
Clefs and Time Signatures
Take a beat, Daddy-O, and note down some of the basics of musical measures!
Color
Are we on the same wavelength about color? Tim and Moby explain why the grass is green and the sky is blue.
Country Music
Do-si-do through the history of country music, from Patsy Kline to Garth Brooks.
Cubism
Get a little perspective on the art movement Cubism from Tim, Moby, and Picasso!
Dance
Astaire and Rogers have nothing on Tim and Moby: Learn how movement can become art.
Drama
“Exit, pursued by a bear!” Learn about drama through the ages—comedy to tragedy, and ancient Greece through Shakespeare.
Drawing
From doodling around to shading, stipling, and etching—there's nothing sketchy about this movie on drawing!
Elvis Presley
Learn all about Elvis Presley, the singer from Memphis, Tennessee who became the King of Rock n' Roll.
Filmmaking
Whether a movie’s a documentary, a short, or by Spielberg, they all need three things: Lights! Camera! Action!
Frida Kahlo
Like to draw self-portraits? Learn about the influential Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
Georgia O'Keeffe
A look at the life and career of the modern artist who brought you flowers, skulls, and beautiful Southwestern skies!
Graphic Design
Where do those images on billboards, posters, and tv come from? Let Tim and Moby teach you about graphic design.
Harlem Renaissance
From Armstrong to Ellington, and Hughes to Hurston, a time of flowering in African-American culture and arts!
Hip-Hop and Rap
Trace the roots of this rich musical genre from its humble beginnings in the Bronx, New York, to its current global status.
Imagination
Memories, dreams, creativity, perceptions—All part of the world inside your head.
Impressionism
Impressive that all those little painted brushstrokes started such a big artistic movement.
Jacques Cousteau
Plunge into the undersea world of Jacques Cousteau, a pioneering filmmaker and conservationist who revealed the many wonders of the deep!
Jazz
Bang those tubs, Hepcats! Learn the history and basics of jazz, from syncopation and sax solos to swing and bebop!
Latin Music
Ready for some salsa—hold the chips? How about a little merengue, or a quick tango? Learn about the many styles of Latin Music and the cultures they come from.
Leonardo da Vinci
This movie paints a picture of the original Renaissance man: sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist, painter and mathematician. Leonardo!
Literary Genres
From comedy to mystery to science fiction, stories come in all different types
Louis Armstrong
Meet the trumpet-playing father of jazz, and find out why his nickname was “Satchmo”!
Ludwig Van Beethoven
He struggled with deafness but rose above it as composer of the greatest symphonies in classical music.
Maya Lin
In the early ’80s, the contest to design a new Vietnam Veterans Memorial ended with a surprise winner—a college senior named Maya Lin. Her simple, powerful design faced serious opposition, but ultimately became a game-changer.
Melody and Harmony
See how a simple tune can turn into a masterpiece with melody and harmony!
Michelangelo Buonarroti
“He’s good but he’s no . . . oh wait, he is Michelangelo!” Learn about the master Italian renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and artist.
Painting
It started with the cavemen (though they weren’t big on abstracts or acrylics.) Get perspective on one of the world’s oldest art forms.
Percussion
Tim and Moby snare that rhythm and tell you all about rappin' a percussive beat!
Photography
From Daguerreotypes to photojournalism to your school picture (aww!), photography shows us how we live.
Pop Art
Through its use of irony, comics, and Campbell’s soup cans, this 20th-century movement turned the art world on its head.
Portraits
Become an art detective: Use visual clues to discover all the things you can learn about a person from their portrait.
Powwows
Trace the roots of Native American powwows, and learn about the dances and regalia.
Reading Music
Not so sharp on finding the beat? We’ll pitch what you need to know about bass, treble, rhythm, and all the do-re-mi!
Renaissance
Explore the Renaissance, when radical change in almost every aspect of society launched Europe out of the Middle Ages and into the Modern Era.
Scale Drawing
Learn to use math to scale a drawing so you can create maps, grids, and even buildings that are perfectly proportional.
Sculpture
It’s a relief to have Tim and Moby hammer down some facts about sculpture, from classical busts to surreal carvings.
String Instruments
From violins and guitars to pianos and hurdy-gurdies, this movie explores stringed instruments that are sure to resonate with everyone!
Surrealism
Dreams, imagination, and the subconscious + World War I, Freud, and Dali. They all add up to create the weird world of Surrealist Art.
The Beatles
Learn all about the Fab Four and their run as one of the most popular rock bands of all time!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Demystifying Mozart, the child genius who grew up to change music.
Woodwinds
The answer, my friend, is blowing on the woodwind! Find out how clarinets and saxaphones make those sweet soulful sounds.
Zaha Hadid
From swooping lines to sharp angles, learn how Zaha Hadid changed modern architecture, proving that her "unbuildable" designs could be built, after all.
