The importance of first Impressions -- Where am I? : point of view and focal point -- Color : description, symbol, and more -- Line : description and expression -- Space, shape, shade, and shadow -- Seeing the big picture : composition.
The illusion : getting the right perspective -- Art that moves us : time and motion -- Feeling with our eyes : texture and light -- Drawing : dry, liquid, and modern media -- Printmaking : relief and intaglio -- Modern printmaking : planographic.
Sculpture : salt cellars to monuments -- Development of painting : tempera and oils -- Modern painting : acrylics and assemblages -- Subject matters -- Signs : symbols, icons, and indexes in art -- Portraits : how artists see others.
Self-portraits : how artists see themselves -- Landscapes : art of the great outdoors -- Putting it all together -- Early Renaissance : humanism emergent -- Northern Renaissance : devil in the details -- High Renaissance : humanism perfected.
Mannerism and Baroque : distortion and drama -- Going Baroque : north versus south -- 18th century reality and decorative Rococo -- Revolutions : Neoclassicism and Romanticism -- From Realism to Impressionism -- Postimpressionism : form and content re-viewed.
Expressionism : empathy and emotion -- Cubism : an experiment in form -- Abstraction/Modernism : new visual language -- Dada found objects/Surreal doodles and dreams -- Postmodernism : focus on the viewer -- Your next museum visit : do it yourself!
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