How to look at and understand great art. Episode 5, Space, shape, shade, and shadow
How to look at and understand great art. Episode 5, Space, shape, shade, and shadow
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Title from title frames.
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2011.
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".
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
1525732 Kanopy
Art--History.
Art appreciation.
Art.
Documentary films.
Title from title frames.
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2011.
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".
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
1525732 Kanopy
Art--History.
Art appreciation.
Art.
Documentary films.