TY  - GEN
AU  - Hirsh,Sharon L.
ED  - Teaching Company
TI  - How to look at and understand great art
T2  - The Great courses
SN  - 9781598037357
AV  - LB 14.6 H669h 2011
U1  - 370 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chantilly, Virginia
PB  - The Teaching Company
KW  - Education.
KW  - Teaching
KW  - Educación
KW  - Enseñanza
KW  - Historia del arte
KW  - Estudio y enseñanza
KW  - Artes
KW  - Historia
KW  - Apreciación del arte
N1  - Course No. 7640.
May accompany video recordings with same title; "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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