Season
- Season 1 2011-01-01
Episode
- Episode 1: The Importance of First Impressions
- Episode 2: Where Am I? Point of View and Focal Point
- Episode 3: Color—Description, Symbol, and More
- Episode 4: Line—Description and Expression
- Episode 5: Space, Shape, Shade, and Shadow
- Episode 6: Seeing the Big Picture—Composition
- Episode 7: The Illusion—Getting the Right Perspective
- Episode 8: Art That Moves Us—Time and Motion
- Episode 9: Feeling with Our Eyes—Texture and Light
- Episode 10: Drawing—Dry, Liquid, and Modern Media
- Episode 11: Printmaking—Relief and Intaglio
- Episode 12: Modern Printmaking—Planographic
- Episode 13: Sculpture—Salt Cellars to Monuments
- Episode 14: Development of Painting—Tempera and Oils
- Episode 15: Modern Painting—Acrylics and Assemblages
- Episode 16: Subject Matters
- Episode 17: Signs—Symbols, Icons, and Indexes in Art
- Episode 18: Portraits—How Artists See Others
- Episode 19: Self-Portraits—How Artists See Themselves
- Episode 20: Landscapes—Art of the Great Outdoors
- Episode 21: Putting It All Together
- Episode 22: Early Renaissance—Humanism Emergent
- Episode 23: Northern Renaissance—Devil in the Details
- Episode 24: High Renaissance—Humanism Perfected
- Episode 25: Mannerism and Baroque—Distortion and Drama
- Episode 26: Going Baroque—North versus South
- Episode 27: 18th-Century Reality and Decorative Rococo
- Episode 28: Revolutions—Neoclassicism and Romanticism
- Episode 29: From Realism to Impressionism
- Episode 30: Postimpressionism—Form and Content Re-Viewed
- Episode 31: Expressionism—Empathy and Emotion
- Episode 32: Cubism—An Experiment in Form
- Episode 33: Abstraction/Modernism—New Visual Language
- Episode 34: Dada Found Objects/Surreal Doodles and Dreams
- Episode 35: Postmodernism—Focus on the Viewer
- Episode 36: Your Next Museum Visit—Do It Yourself!
How to Look at and Understand Great Art Lectures Color—Description, Symbol, and More
Contemplate the "anti-art" spirit of Dadaism, its nihilistic yet humorous indictment of civilization and bizarre use of unconventional media. In the sensibility of Surrealism, observe its compelling focus on the subconscious and two substyles - dream imagery, with its juxtaposition of objects and settings, and "automatic drawing," eliciting unplanned images from the unconscious.
