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How to Look at and Understand Great Art
2011
Director
Sharon Latchaw Hirsh
Supplier
The Great Courses
In This Series

Episode 1
The Importance of First Impressions

Episode 2
Where Am I? Point of View and Focal Point

Episode 3
Color - Description, Symbol, and More

Episode 4
Line - Description and Expression

Episode 5
Space, Shape, Shade, and Shadow

Episode 6
Seeing the Big Picture - Composition

Episode 7
The Illusion - Getting the Right Perspective

Episode 8
Art That Moves Us - Time and Motion

Episode 9
Feeling with Our Eyes - Texture and Light

Episode 10
Drawing - Dry, Liquid, and Modern Media

Episode 11
Printmaking - Relief and Intaglio

Episode 12
Modern Printmaking - Planographic

Episode 13
Sculpture - Salt Cellars to Monuments

Episode 14
Development of Painting - Tempera and Oils

Episode 15
Modern Painting - Acrylics and Assemblages

Episode 16
Subject Matters

Episode 17
Signs - Symbols, Icons, and Indexes in Art

Episode 18
Portraits - How Artists See Others

Episode 19
Self-Portraits - How Artists See Themselves

Episode 20
Landscapes - Art of the Great Outdoors

Episode 21
Putting It All Together

Episode 22
Early Renaissance - Humanism Emergent

Episode 23
Northern Renaissance - Devil in the Details

Episode 24
High Renaissance - Humanism Perfected

Episode 25
Mannerism and Baroque - Distortion and Drama

Episode 26
Going Baroque - North versus South

Episode 27
18th-Century Reality and Decorative Rococo

Episode 28
Revolutions - Neoclassicism and Romanticism

Episode 29
From Realism to Impressionism

Episode 30
Postimpressionism - Form and Content Re-Viewed

Episode 31
Expressionism - Empathy and Emotion

Episode 32
Cubism - An Experiment in Form

Episode 33
Abstraction/Modernism - New Visual Language

Episode 34
Dada Found Objects/Surreal Doodles and Dreams

Episode 35
Postmodernism - Focus on the Viewer

Episode 36
Your Next Museum Visit - Do It Yourself!
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