Disc 1. The importance of first Impressions ; Where am I? point of view and focal point ; Color : description, symbol and more ; Line : description and expression ; Space, shape, shade, and shadow ; Seeing the big picture : composition
Disc 2. The illusion : getting the right perspective ; Art that moves us : time and motion ; Feeling with our eyes : texture and light ; Drawing : dry, liquid, and modern media ; Printmaking : relief and intaglio ; Modern printmaking : planographic
Disc 3. Sculpture : salt cellars to monuments ; Development of painting : tempera and oils ; Modern painting : acrylics and assemblages ; Subject matters ; Signs : symbols, icons, and indexes in art ; Portraits : how artists see others
Disc 4. Self-portraits : how artists see themselves ; Landscapes : art of the great outdoors ; Putting it all together ; Early Renaissance : humanism emergent ; Northern Renaissance : devil in the details ; High Renaissance : humanism perfected
Disc 5. Mannerism and Baroque : distortion and drama ; Going Baroque : north versus south ; 18th century reality and decorative Rococo ; Revolutions : neoclassicism and romanticism ; From Realism to Impressionism ; Postimpressionism : form and content re-viewed
Disc 6. Expressionism : empathy and emotion ; Cubism : an experiment in form ; Abstraction/Modernism : new visual language ; Dada found objects/Surreal doodles and dreams ; Postmodernism : focus on the viewer ; Your next museum visit : do it yourself.
