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Unit 1: Looking at art
Why art matters
Why look at art? ✓ Check-ins1:56
Must art be beautiful? Picasso's The Old Guitarist ✓ Check-ins6:21
How art can help you analyze ✓ Check-ins4:50
On Looking Closely: Giorgio Morandi, Still Life ✓ Check-ins6:00
The Power to Look ✓ Check-ins4:22
What work of art inspired you? ✓ Check-ins2:25
Describing what you see: Sculpture (Henry Moore, Reclining Figure) ✓ Check-ins6:33
Unit 2: Approaches to art history
An introduction to art history
The language of art history
Contrapposto explained ✓ Check-ins4:23
What is foreshortening? ✓ Check-ins2:41
What is chiaroscuro? ✓ Check-ins2:07
How one-point linear perspective works ✓ Check-ins11:56
What is atmospheric perspective? ✓ Check-ins1:23
Classic, classical, and classicism explained ✓ Check-ins4:35
The classical orders ✓ Check-ins11:08
What is genre painting? ✓ Check-ins3:22
Methods of art history
Questions in art history
Current issues in art history
Why You Don't Like Art History8:46
How Climate Changes Art15:41
The $150,000 Banana11:52
Art about Migration17:20
What Art tells us about Gender14:39
Should Art Be Publicly Funded?11:52
Why Do Corporations Buy Art?10:12
What Does Resistance Look Like?14:03
The Case for Copying ✓ Check-ins10:54
The Case For Nudity7:30
Trending Artists10:53
Behind the Banksy Stunt11:20
Unit 3: Tools for understanding museums
Unit 4: Tools for understanding religion in art
Beginner's guide
Hinduism
Buddhism
How to recognize the Buddha ✓ Check-ins5:35
How to recognize a bodhisattva ✓ Check-ins3:48
The stupa ✓ Check-ins4:30
Four Buddhas at the American Museum of Natural History ✓ Check-ins9:39
Bodh Gaya: center of the Buddhist world ✓ Check-ins3:01
Beliefs made visible: Buddhist art in South Asia ✓ Check-ins20:24
Christianity
How to recognize the Four Evangelists ✓ Check-ins3:02
How to recognize saints ✓ Check-ins4:46
The audacity of Christian art: the problem with Christ | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins6:21
The audacity of Christian art: Christ is not like a snail: Signs and symbols | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins6:15
The audacity of Christian art: Putting God in His place: Here, everywhere, and nowhere | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins6:40
The audacity of Christian art: Time and eternity: Yesterday, today, and always | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins6:40
The audacity of Christian art: This world and the next: Christ on earth; Christ in heaven | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins7:22
The audacity of Christian Art: So near and yet so far: Visions and thresholds | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins7:40
The audacity of Christian art: Unspeakable images: When words fail | National Gallery ✓ Check-ins7:40
Unit 5: For the very beginner
Ancient to medieval art
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