How to look at and understand great art

How to look at and understand great art

DVD - 2011

These 36 half-hour lectures are your initiation into the world of great art.

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Subjects
Art appreciation.
Art > History.
Published
[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company [2011]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Teaching Company
Corporate Author
Teaching Company (-)
Other Authors
Sharon L. Hirsh (-)
Item Description
"The Great courses, Topic: Fine Arts & Music ; Subtopic: Visual arts"--Cover.
"Course no. 7640"--Disc labels.
36 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Physical Description
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 course guidebook (vi, 280 pages ; 19 cm)
Format
DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
ISBN
9781598037357
  • Disc 1. The importance of first impressions
  • Where am I? Point of view and vocal 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: tempura 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!

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