Definition of art -- The sense of beauty -- Definition of beauty -- Distinction between art and beauty -- Art as intuition -- The classical ideal -- Art not uniform -- Art and aesthetics -- Form and expression -- The Golden section -- Limitations of geometrical harmony -- Distortion -- Pattern -- The personal element -- Definition of pattern -- Definition of form -- What happens when we look at a picture -- Empathy -- Sentimentality -- The necessity of form -- Content -- Art without content : pottery -- Abstract art -- Humanistic art : the portrait -- Psychological values -- The elements of a work of art -- Line -- Tone -- Colour -- Form -- Unity -- Structural motives -- Primitive art -- Bushman paintings -- Significance of primitive art -- Organic and geometrical art -- Fusion of organic and geometrical principles -- Art and religion -- Art and humanism -- Peasant art -- National art : Egypt -- Coptic art -- The pyramids -- Egyptian sculpture -- Pre-Columbian art -- Origin of historical types -- Chinese art -- Persian art -- Byzantine art -- Celtic art -- The approach to Christian art -- Material and immaterial forces -- The influence of the Church -- Gothic art -- English Gothic -- Renaissance art -- Drawings of the Italian masters -- The art of drawing -- Intellectual art -- Realism -- Textual and representational realism -- Naturalism -- Rubens -- El Greco -- Baroque and rococo -- Definition of baroque -- Definition of rococo -- Landscape painting -- The English tradition -- Gainsborough -- Blake -- Turner -- Art and nature -- Constable -- Delacroix -- The impressionists -- Renoir -- Cézanne -- Van Gogh -- Gauguin -- Henri Rousseau -- Picasso -- Chagall -- The racial factor -- Lyricism and symbolism -- Expressionism and idealism -- The expressionist movement -- Kandinsky -- 'The Bridge' and the 'Blue Rider' groups -- Paul Klee -- Max Ernst -- Salvador Dali -- Tachism -- Modern sculpture -- Henry Moore -- Barbara Hepworth -- The artist's point of view -- Tolstoy's point of view -- Tolstoy and Wordsworth -- Another point of view : Matisse -- Communication : feeling and understanding -- Art and society -- The will-to-form -- The ultimate values.
|
