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Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A series of episodes from the TV program '1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World' on Swedish National Museum : Stockholm. The 1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World Series is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short...
Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A series of episodes from the TV program '1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World' on Centre Georges Pompidou : Paris. The 1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World Series is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Study how artists think structurally in building a drawing, tying the drawing’s content to the geometric underpinnings of a given rectangular shape. Learn about focal areas, focal points, and compositional balance, and how this kind of structural understanding serves to unite the parts of a drawing, creating a unified whole..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Apply your knowledge and skills to a number of intriguing and complex drawing conundrums. Among a range of projects, create a still life of boxes, translate a complex figure painting into a line drawing, and draw a carefully composed self-portrait. Also consider common pitfalls—and their solutions—in drawing naturalistically..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Complete drawing anterior, lateral, and posterior views of the human figure. Then, turn the flat shapes used to construct the figure into volume, to get a more naturalistic and three-dimensional figure. Study methods for proportionately drawing the head and conquering the complexity of the hands and the feet..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Further stretch your creative horizons as you leave traditional tools behind and explore new materials and techniques. Featuring four different demonstrations, this lesson will show you how to utilize unique painting surfaces, paint with palette knives instead of brushes, incorporate other media into your paintings, and add collage to your repertoire.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Study key tools artists use to arrive at correct proportions. In particular, learn how to use an analog clock face as a way to quantify angles, how to use a standard unit of measure to measure across the picture plane, and how to use level and plumb lines. Then put these elements together in practice..
Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A series of episodes from the TV program '1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World' on Museum of Modern Art New York. The 1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World Series is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art...
Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A series of episodes from the TV program '1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World' on Tate Gallery in London. The 1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World Series is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Engage with a subject that can intimidate even seasoned painters: glass. Learn how to focus on what can be seen through glass objects, rather than on the glass itself, to capture its unique properties. Undertake a simple glass still life, using highlights and shadows to suggest shape rather than outlining or blocking.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Hone your observational skills and develop your personal creative perspective as you tackle a still life composition. Professor Allman's demonstration will help you bring together all the techniques you have learned so far while still allowing you to arrange your own subject and to make crucial decisions about value, proportion, and more.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dive into the challenging diversity of the natural world, starting with bodies of water and clouds. First, identify common elements and look closely to determine color temperature and value areas. Then, work from simple structure to finer details as you build up your painting. Finally, add shadows and highlights to capture shape and atmospheric conditions.
Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A series of episodes from the TV program '1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World' on Kunstmuseum Basel. The 1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World Series is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys provide...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Combine your knowledge of illusionistic space and linear perspective in drawing an architectural landscape of two buildings on a ground plane. Construct the buildings and the space between them using the principles of one-point perspective. Then draw through the buildings, creating interior floors, windows, doors, and furniture..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the age of instant photography, why paint portraits? Professor Allman discusses the amazing ability of portraits to capture truths about both the subject and the artist, as he introduces you to the proportions of the human face and then demonstrates how to "build" your portrait in much the same way you have tackled previous subjects.
Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A series of episodes from the TV program '1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World' on Hamburger Kunsthalle. The 1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World Series is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short art surveys...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Step beyond the basics and explore broader elements of painting. Look at arrangement and composition, exploring ideas of symmetry, hierarchy, dynamics, and more. Discover why traditional approaches like the Golden Ratio aren't the only options for arranging your work, and end with a sketching session to explore how to plan your work before you start painting.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Look broadly at how artists create flatness, volume, and space on two-dimensional surfaces. In doing so, study 12 factors that affect how we perceive depth of space, encompassing principles such as overlap, the relative scale of objects, the use of diagonals and foreshortened shapes, atmospheric perspective, and how distance affects color..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Investigate visual strategies artists use in composing drawings. Grasp how shapes communicate, and how the factors of contrast and repetition affect how a viewer reads a drawing. Learn about visual “rhyming” (shapes and directions that get repeated rhythmically), spatial organization (foreground, mid-ground, background), and the narrative possibilities of composition..
Publisher
Arthaus Musik
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A series of episodes from the TV program '1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World' on Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The 1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World Series is one of the most successful TV series about art. The original, with improved image quality, takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art. Comprehensively illustrated and compellingly presented – the well-known authors of five short...
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