How to Look at and Understand Great Art Book

1. The Importance of First Impressions

2. Where Am I? Point of View and Focal Point

3. Color—Description, Symbol, and More

4. Line—Description and Expression

5. Space, Shape, Shade, and Shadow

6. Seeing the Big Picture—Composition

7. The Illusion—Getting the Right Perspective

8. Art That Moves Us—Time and Motion

9. Feeling with Our Eyes—Texture and Light

10. Drawing—Dry, Liquid, and Modern Media

11. Printmaking—Relief and Intaglio

12. Modern Printmaking—Planographic

13. Sculpture—Salt Cellars to Monuments

14. Development of Painting—Tempera and Oils

15. Modern Painting—Acrylics and Assemblages

16. Subject Matters

17. Signs—Symbols, Icons, and Indexes in Art

18. Portraits—How Artists See Others

19. Self-Portraits—How Artists See Themselves

20. Landscapes—Art of the Great Outdoors

21. Putting It All Together

22. Early Renaissance—Humanism Emergent

23. Northern Renaissance—Devil in the Details

24. High Renaissance—Humanism Perfected

25. Mannerism and Baroque—Distortion and Drama

26. Going Baroque—North versus South

27. 18th-Century Reality and Decorative Rococo

28. Revolutions—Neoclassicism and Romanticism

29. From Realism to Impressionism

30. Postimpressionism—Form and Content Re-Viewed

31. Expressionism—Empathy and Emotion

32. Cubism—An Experiment in Form

33. Abstraction/Modernism—New Visual Language

34. Dada Found Objects/Surreal Doodles and Dreams

35. Postmodernism—Focus on the Viewer

36. Your Next Museum Visit—Do It Yourself!