How to Look at and Understand Great Art

Landscapes—Art of the Great Outdoors

S1 • E20    Dec 31, 2010
In this lecture on landscape painting, observe the classical, balanced division into foreground, middle, and background, and how Romantic painters altered these proportions to express drama, infinite space, and the sublime. Discover proportion and composition in landscapes of the Hudson River school, Luminism, Impressionism, and also the subgenres of seascapes and cityscapes.

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Cast of Landscapes—Art of the Great Outdoors

  • Sharon Latchaw HirshSelf

 

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