Disc 1. 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
Disc 2. 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
Disc 3. Sculpture : salt cellars to monuments
Development of painting : tempera and oils
Modern painting : acrylics and assemblages
Signs : symbols, icons, and indexes in art
Portraits : how artists see others
Disc 4. Self-portraits : how artists see themselves
Landscapes : art of the great outdoors
Early Renaissance : humanism emergent
Northern Renaissance : devil in the details
High Renaissance : humanism perfected
Disc 5. 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
Disc 6. 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!
