How to look at and understand great art Episode 5, Space, shape, shade, and shadow Episode 5, Space, shape, shade, and shadow
Streaming video - 2011
Examine geometric and "organic" shapes in painting and sculpture and the crucial relationship of figure to ground and mass to space. Then, explore the illusionistic use of shading, shadows, and overlapping shapes in Caravaggio's and Friedrich's works, and the compositional power of shapes in paintings such as Matisse's "Dance" and Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam".
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- Documentary films
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Great Courses
2011.
2017. - Language
- English
- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
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- Title from title frames.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Playing Time
- 00:30:06
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).