How to Look at and Understand Great Art - Season 1 Episode 27 18th-Century Reality and Decorative Rococo
The sensuality of Rococo art mirrors 18th-century upper-class lifestyle and sensibility. Explore the evocation of intimate hedonism in Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, and other Rococo masters, specifically through their imagery of lovers, social life, and pastoral pleasure. Then, define Rococo style in its graceful curves and characteristic use of paint and color.
Year: 2011
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: The Great Courses
Director:
Cast: Sharon Latchaw Hirsh
Crew:
First Air Date: Jan 01, 2011
Last Air date: Jan 01, 2011
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 36 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0.00 users
Popularity: 1.275
Language: English
Season
Season 1
Episode
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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