LibGuides: ART101&102 Art History: Films on Art History II

Films on Art History II

The Painter’s Studio: Art Workshop, Art Laboratory (27 min.)
This program covers an assortment of studio-related topics, including life as a painter's apprentice...

Composition (30 min.)

Everyone has the desire to arrange things in a way that is most pleasing to the eye...

Introduction to the elements of design: color, line, shape, form, pattern, and texture...

A whirlwind tour of the natural world and the fashion world, ancient times and modern pastimes...

The principles of design are visible almost anywhere, but too often they are explained in an abstract, intellectualized way. This hands-on video presents the basic elements of design and their importance in a wide variety of fields...

The Italian Renaissance (60 min.)
The Italian Renaissance, which embraces both the Early Renaissance and the High Renaissance, stands as the central tradition in European art-and continues to be a powerful source of artistic influences.This program examines:• Masaccio's Profile Portrait of a Young Man (1425), from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC...
The Impact of Humanism in the Visual Arts (59 min.)
Divided into nine sections, this illuminating program investigates the influence of humanism on European painting, sculpture, and architecture by comparing the styles of well-known works of Renaissance art...

Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance (53 min.)
This program surveys the life and work of the perennially fascinating genius Leonardo da Vinci, from his birth in Tuscany to his final years in Cloux...
The Drawings of Michelangelo (41 min.)
Comparing Michelangelo's preparatory drawings to his finished masterworks-but viewing them together is virtually impossible in a museum setting. This program solves that problem, closely juxtaposing the artist's pencil and charcoal works with the painting, sculpture, and architecture that grew out of them... (41 min.)

Hieronymus Bosch: The Delights of Hell (60 min.)
Documenting two major museum exhibitions, this program ventures inside the frenzied world of Jeroen van Aken-otherwise known as Hieronymus Bosch, the 15th-century Dutch painter famous for his visions...
The Northern Renaissance [electronic resource (video)] / Digital Classics (Firm).

The Power of Art: Caravaggio (53 min.)
Backed by a Church struggling to connect with the faithful, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted images imbued with physical immediacy and in-your-face drama. As this program shows, there was a trade-off: Caravaggio's biblical scenes frequently eschew... (53 min.)
The Power of Art: Bernini (52 min.)
Although rendered in stone, the sculptures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini convey a sense of weightlessness perhaps unequalled in the history of Western art. This program illustrates Bernini's nearly miraculous ability to turn marble into a vessel of rapture, both spiritual and sexual...
The Night Watch (50 min.)
When Rembrandt painted Frans Banning Cocq's militia company, he imbued it with all the drama and gravity of a major moment in history. This program deftly deconstructs The Night Watch to understand the many conventions...

Realism: The Artistic Form of the Truth (54 min.)
It is a creative impulse as old as humanity itself: to depict life faithfully, accurately, in words or images. This program shows how that impulse led to Realism-a widespread artistic movement, born in the latter half of the 19th century...

Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution (12 min.)
In this program, NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Kaye surveys the life and artwork of Diego Rivera, a larger-than-life figure and one of the 20th century's truly revolutionary artists-both creatively and politically...