December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
From time to time, an artwork is produced that radically changes the formal means by which art may be made.
• The development of perspectival space in fifteenth-century Italy was an extraordinary formal innovation.
• Caravaggio’s development of a newly pungent sense of realism was both shocking and persuasive to his audience at the end of the sixteenth century.
• At the end of the eighteenth century, the Romantics introduced innovations in which spontaneity, open brushing, and highly flexible compositions replaced more stable and calculated approaches to painting.
• With Impressionism in the 1870s, artists discovered a whole new way to re-create a sense of light in painting.
From the late nineteenth century onward, the ...