How to Look at and Understand Great Art

The Importance of First Impressions

Season 1 • Episode 1

Where Am I? Point of View and Focal Point

Season 1 • Episode 2

Color—Description, Symbol, and More

Season 1 • Episode 3

Line—Description and Expression

Season 1 • Episode 4

Space, Shape, Shade, and Shadow

Season 1 • Episode 5

Seeing the Big Picture—Composition

Season 1 • Episode 6

The Illusion—Getting the Right Perspective

Season 1 • Episode 7

Art That Moves Us—Time and Motion

Season 1 • Episode 8

Feeling with Our Eyes—Texture and Light

Season 1 • Episode 9

Drawing—Dry, Liquid, and Modern Media

Season 1 • Episode 10

Printmaking—Relief and Intaglio

Season 1 • Episode 11

Modern Printmaking—Planographic

Season 1 • Episode 12

Sculpture—Salt Cellars to Monuments

Season 1 • Episode 13

Development of Painting—Tempera and Oils

Season 1 • Episode 14

Modern Painting—Acrylics and Assemblages

Season 1 • Episode 15

Subject Matters

Season 1 • Episode 16

Signs—Symbols, Icons, and Indexes in Art

Season 1 • Episode 17

Portraits—How Artists See Others

Season 1 • Episode 18

Self-Portraits—How Artists See Themselves

Season 1 • Episode 19

Landscapes—Art of the Great Outdoors

Season 1 • Episode 20

Putting It All Together

Season 1 • Episode 21

Early Renaissance—Humanism Emergent

Season 1 • Episode 22

Northern Renaissance—Devil in the Details

Season 1 • Episode 23

High Renaissance—Humanism Perfected

Season 1 • Episode 24

Mannerism and Baroque—Distortion and Drama

Season 1 • Episode 25

Going Baroque—North versus South

Season 1 • Episode 26

18th-Century Reality and Decorative Rococo

Season 1 • Episode 27

Revolutions—Neoclassicism and Romanticism

Season 1 • Episode 28

From Realism to Impressionism

Season 1 • Episode 29

Postimpressionism—Form and Content Re-Viewed

Season 1 • Episode 30

Expressionism—Empathy and Emotion

Season 1 • Episode 31

Cubism—An Experiment in Form

Season 1 • Episode 32

Abstraction/Modernism—New Visual Language

Season 1 • Episode 33

Dada Found Objects/Surreal Doodles and Dreams

Season 1 • Episode 34

Postmodernism—Focus on the Viewer

Season 1 • Episode 35

Your Next Museum Visit—Do It Yourself!

Season 1 • Episode 36