How to look at and understand great art /
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2011]
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| Series: | Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts.
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Table of Contents:
- Disc 1. The importance of first Impressions
- Where am I? : point of view and focal point
- Color : description, symbol, and more
- Line : description and expression
- Space, shape, shade, and shadow
- Seeing the big picture : composition
- Disc 2. The illusion : getting the right perspective
- Art that moves us : time and motion
- Feeling with our eyes : texture and light
- Drawing : dry, liquid, and modern media
- Printmaking : relief and intaglio
- Modern printmaking : planographic
- Disc 3. Sculpture : salt cellars to monuments
- Development of painting : tempera and oils
- Modern painting : acrylics and assemblages
- Subject matters
- Signs : symbols, icons, and indexes in art
- Portraits : how artists see others
- Disc 4. Self-portraits : how artists see themselves
- Landscapes : art of the great outdoors
- Putting it all together
- Early Renaissance : humanism emergent
- Northern Renaissance : devil in the details
- High Renaissance : humanism perfected
- Disc 5. Mannerism and Baroque : distortion and drama
- Going Baroque : north versus south
- 18th century reality and decorative Rococo
- Revolutions : Neoclassicism and Romanticism
- From Realism to Impressionism
- Postimpressionism : form and content re-viewed
- Disc 6. Expressionism : empathy and emotion
- Cubism : an experiment in form
- Abstraction/Modernism : new visual language
- Dada found objects/Surreal doodles and dreams
- Postmodernism : focus on the viewer
- Your next museum visit : do it yourself!