How to look at and understand great art

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hirsh, Sharon L. (-)
Format: DVD
Language:Inglés
Published: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company cop. 2011
Series:The Great courses fine arts & music
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Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1: The importance of first Impression
  • 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
  • Postimpressionism: form and content re-viewed
  • disc 6: Expressionism: empathy and emotion
  • Cubism: an experiment in form
  • Abstraction/Modernism: new visual languages
  • Dada found objects/Surreal doodles and dreams
  • Postmodernism: focus on the viewer
  • Your next museum visit: do it yourself.