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1) Composition
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Examines the compositional features of various works of art, discussing how composition is not only a consideration for artists, but also a factor in how we view the art.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper - all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago - this book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art? Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford talked in art galleries or churches or their own homes, and this book is structured around their journeys. But whether they were in the Louvre or the Prado, the Mauritshuis of the Palazzo Pitti, they reveal the...
Author
Publisher
Shanghai Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Applying a comparative approach to Chinese and Western art, this book examines the characteristics of traditional Chinese art and analyses the distinction between figure painting and portraiture. It examines the scenery in Chinese landscape painting and the sense of poetry within the paintings of flowers and birds so that the reader comes to understand the unique essence of Chinese art and is gradually led towards the ethereal world of spiritual abstraction...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Provides images of paintings and new, sensory ways to experience them such as tasting the milk in Vermeer's "The Milkmaid," hearing the music in Tanner's "The Banjo Lesson, "or smelling the fresh-cut stacks of wheat in Monet's "End of Summer."
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The richness of signs (signifiers) in art includes the use of symbols, icons, and indexes as they reveal layers of meaning. See how, in different historical eras, symbolic associations change over time, how icons visually represent a subject, and how indexes exhibit direct connections with the thing signified.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In canvases of Millet, Courbet, and Manet, observe the Realist ideals of honesty, simplicity, and descriptive colors in revealing contemporary experience. Then, explore the phenomenon of Impressionism, highlighting Renoir, Monet, and Degas - their fascination with natural light, quest to capture the moment, and iconic subject matter of middle-class leisure life.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Across the centuries, self-portraits fascinatingly reveal the changing role of the artist. Follow this progression, from Renaissance painters subtly placing themselves within large compositions, to self-portraiture's emergence as a major form of self-revelation, noting many dramatic and colorful traditions within the form.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In examining the diverse functions and types of portraits, study the important elements of facial presentation and the subject's position and gaze with relation to the viewer and the pictorial space. See how Rembrandt added dramatic power to his group "corporation" portraits, and how David carefully rendered Napoleon in symbolic terms.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Discover the properties of line, another essential element of art, as "descriptive" (describing reality) or "expressional" (conveying feeling). Learn about the use of geometric lines, implied lines, and directional lines within a composition. Also, study the compelling, psychological use of line in Picasso's works, Seurat's "The Circus", and in key Modern and Expressionist works.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
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".
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This lecture integrates elements including color, line, shape, composition, light, symbolism, point of view, and focal point. Using the viewing tools you've developed, look deeply at four diverse masterpieces, including a sculpture by Thorvaldsen, a "vanitas" still life by Van Oosterwyck, a lithograph by Bonnard, and a painting by Van der Weyden.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Language
English
Description
While visiting the art museum, Katie has an adventure stepping in and out of five paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne. Includes information about Post-impressionism and the particular paintings and artists in the story.
17) Can you find it?
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Presents a diverse collection of well-known paintings which show how, through the centuries, artists have hidden small details to be discovered by curious eyes.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Robert Oliver, a famous painter, attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and is hospitalized, psychiatrist Andrew Marlow tries to help the artist by coaxing him into providing answers about his past, including his old lovers, while delving into the history of French Impressionism.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Asks readers to find specific details in twenty-three masterpieces of art from throughout history; provides a lift-the-flap key containing information on the artworks and artists; and discusses historical developments in art media and tools.
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