How to look at and understand great art /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2011]
Series:Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts.
Subjects:
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!