How to look at and understand great art / Sharon Latchaw Hirsh.

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9781598037357

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Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2011]

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6 videodiscs (1,080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

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"Visual Arts"--Container.

"Course no. 7640."--Disc surface.

36 lectures, each 30 minutes per lecture.

DVD, NTSC.

Contents:

Disc 1. 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. 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!

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