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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsLanguage: English Series: Great courses (DVD). Fine Arts & Music | The Great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 2011.Description: 6 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)ISBN:
  • 9781598037357
  • 1598037358
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 H669h 2011
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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) LB 14.6 H669h 2011 Guide (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000136815

Course No. 7640.
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"Topic: Fine Arts & Music; Subtopic: Visual arts

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.

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