How to Look at and Understand Great Art - Season 1 Episode 18 : Portraits

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How to Look at and Understand Great Art - Season 1 Episode 18

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Title: How to Look at and Understand Great Art - Season 1 Episode 18
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: The Great Courses
Cast: Sharon Latchaw Hirsh
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Keyword: painting, architecture, art, educational, art history, instructional video

Overview: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.

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First Air Date: Jan 01, 2011 Last Air date: Jan 01, 2011 Season: 1 Season Episode: 36 Episode Runtime: 26:14 minutes Quality: HD IMDb: 10 / 10 by 0 users Popularity: 0.2474 Language: en

Season 1

1. The Importance of First Impressions2011-01-01
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2. Where Am I? Point of View and Focal Point2011-01-01
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3. Color—Description, Symbol, and More2011-01-01
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4. Line—Description and Expression2011-01-01
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5. Space, Shape, Shade, and Shadow2011-01-01
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6. Seeing the Big Picture—Composition2011-01-01
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7. The Illusion—Getting the Right Perspective2011-01-01
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8. Art That Moves Us—Time and Motion2011-01-01
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9. Feeling with Our Eyes—Texture and Light2011-01-01
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10. Drawing—Dry, Liquid, and Modern Media2011-01-01
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11. Printmaking—Relief and Intaglio2011-01-01
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12. Modern Printmaking—Planographic2011-01-01
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13. Sculpture—Salt Cellars to Monuments2011-01-01
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14. Development of Painting—Tempera and Oils2011-01-01
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15. Modern Painting—Acrylics and Assemblages2011-01-01
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16. Subject Matters2011-01-01
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17. Signs—Symbols, Icons, and Indexes in Art2011-01-01
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18. Portraits—How Artists See Others2011-01-01
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19. Self-Portraits—How Artists See Themselves2011-01-01
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20. Landscapes—Art of the Great Outdoors2011-01-01
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21. Putting It All Together2011-01-01
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22. Early Renaissance—Humanism Emergent2011-01-01
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23. Northern Renaissance—Devil in the Details2011-01-01
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24. High Renaissance—Humanism Perfected2011-01-01
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25. Mannerism and Baroque—Distortion and Drama2011-01-01
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26. Going Baroque—North versus South2011-01-01
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27. 18th-Century Reality and Decorative Rococo2011-01-01
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28. Revolutions—Neoclassicism and Romanticism2011-01-01
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29. From Realism to Impressionism2011-01-01
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30. Postimpressionism—Form and Content Re-Viewed2011-01-01
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31. Expressionism—Empathy and Emotion2011-01-01
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32. Cubism—An Experiment in Form2011-01-01
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33. Abstraction/Modernism—New Visual Language2011-01-01
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34. Dada Found Objects/Surreal Doodles and Dreams2011-01-01
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35. Postmodernism—Focus on the Viewer2011-01-01
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36. Your Next Museum Visit—Do It Yourself!2011-01-01
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