Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 The Importance of First Impressions
- Season 1 Where Am I? Point of View and Focal Point
- Season 1 Color—Description, Symbol, and More
- Season 1 Line—Description and Expression
- Season 1 Space, Shape, Shade, and Shadow
- Season 1 Seeing the Big Picture—Composition
- Season 1 The Illusion—Getting the Right Perspective
- Season 1 Art That Moves Us—Time and Motion
- Season 1 Feeling with Our Eyes—Texture and Light
- Season 1 Drawing—Dry, Liquid, and Modern Media
- Season 1 Printmaking—Relief and Intaglio
- Season 1 Modern Printmaking—Planographic
- Season 1 Sculpture—Salt Cellars to Monuments
- Season 1 Development of Painting—Tempera and Oils
- Season 1 Modern Painting—Acrylics and Assemblages
- Season 1 Subject Matters
- Season 1 Signs—Symbols, Icons, and Indexes in Art
- Season 1 Portraits—How Artists See Others
- Season 1 Self-Portraits—How Artists See Themselves
- Season 1 Landscapes—Art of the Great Outdoors
- Season 1 Putting It All Together
- Season 1 Early Renaissance—Humanism Emergent
- Season 1 Northern Renaissance—Devil in the Details
- Season 1 High Renaissance—Humanism Perfected
- Season 1 Mannerism and Baroque—Distortion and Drama
- Season 1 Going Baroque—North versus South
- Season 1 18th-Century Reality and Decorative Rococo
- Season 1 Revolutions—Neoclassicism and Romanticism
- Season 1 From Realism to Impressionism
- Season 1 Postimpressionism—Form and Content Re-Viewed
- Season 1 Expressionism—Empathy and Emotion
- Season 1 Cubism—An Experiment in Form
- Season 1 Abstraction/Modernism—New Visual Language
- Season 1 Dada Found Objects/Surreal Doodles and Dreams
- Season 1 Postmodernism—Focus on the Viewer
- Season 1 Your Next Museum Visit—Do It Yourself!
How to Look at and Understand Great Art - Season 1 Episode 5 Space, Shape, Shade, and Shadow
0.00 48 minutes Examine geometric and "organic" shapes in painting and sculpture and the crucial relationship of figure to ground and mass to space. Then, explore the illusionistic use of shading, shadows, and overlapping shapes in Caravaggio's and Friedrich's works, and the compositional power of shapes in paintings such as Matisse's "Dance" and Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam".
