Media Collection
Guide / George Mason University
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ART: Painting
Abstraction.
Concentrates on the conventions, innovations and institutions
affecting the practice of painting.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND196.A25 A2
The arrested moment.
Explains how artists commonly use perspective, contrapposto,
chairoscuro and stumato to convey the illusion of motion.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6797.H57 A77
The artist and the nude.
Deals with the representation of the human body, from the
Renaissance to the present. Shows the revival of classical
ideals, the study of anatomy, the role of the model, the
changing roles of the nude in art, and the changing ideals of
beauty.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NV760 .A78 1985
The Artist was a woman.
A rediscovery of over 400 years of painting by women artists
from the Renaissance to the midtwentieth century. Includes
readings from the artists' personal writings and from those of
their contemporaries.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N8354 .A77 1981
Brueghel.
"Brueghel is painting's greatest storyteller. As a universal
novelist he paints the intricate book of the village, peasant life,
the seasons, ships at sea, the city, war and th gospels, from
an everyday realistic angle." -- from container.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND673 .B72
David Rabinowitch.
American artist David Rabinowitch discusses his work.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND237.R33 D38
A day in the country.
Covers forty of the most important works selected from the
largest exhibition of Impressionist landscape paintings ever
assembled. Includes works of Monet, Pissaro, Sisley, Manet,
Gaugin, Cezanne, Renoir, van Gogh and other masters.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND1482.I6 D39
A Day on the Grand Canal with the emperor of China.
Discusses the Kangxi emperor's southern inspection tour, a
72-foot-long scroll by Wang Hui, and compares it with a later
scroll by Xu Yang and a painting by Canaletto.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND1043.5 .D39 1991
The Frescoes of Diego Rivera.
Explores Rivera's evolution as an artist, his use of the fresco
technique, and his politics. Looks at the murals Rivera created
for public buildings in the U.S. and Mexico. They unite themes
of nature and revolution, drawing a parallel between the
evolution of life and the struggle for human dignity.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6559.R58 F74
The Frescoes of Diego Rivera.
Explores Rivera's evolution as an artist, his use of the fresco
technique and his politics. His frescoes unite themes of
nature and revolution, drawing a parallel between the
evolution of life and the struggle for human dignity.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND259.R5 F7 1986
Giotto and the pre-Renaissance.
Deals with the works of the artist Giotto, contrasting the hieratic
mood of his predecessors with his innovations. Shows the
major cycles of his frescoes, including those at the Upper and
Lower Church of San Francesco, Assisi, the Scrovegni family
Arena Chapel in Padua, and St. Croce in Florence.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND623.G6 G56
Goya.
Deals with major works of the artist Goya, including his
etchings, tapestries, portraits, frescoes, and famous "black
paintings," focusing on those in the Prado Museum in Madrid.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND813.G7 G67
Health hazards in art.
Discusses measures necessary to insure one's safety when
working with various art materials.
Johnson Center Videotapes
RC963.6.A78 H43
The Hudson River and its painters.
Explores the life and work of the major artists of the Hudson
River School. The program presents more than 200 paintings
and prints of the period and juxtaposes them with dramatic
location photography of the Hudson River area.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND1351.5 .H82
Isabel Bishop.
Explores the art of painter Isabel Bishop and how she
expresses her experiences and inspirations on canvas.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND237.B594 I8 1977
Jacob Lawrence.
Documents the life and work of Jacob Lawrence, through
interviews with the painter, his wife Gwendolyn Knight,
colleagues and critics interwoven with examples of his work.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND237.L29 J33 1993
The landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church.
Traces Church's career from his early studies in the Hudson
River Valley with the eminent painter Thomas Cole, through
the years when Church's grand, heroic depictions of the great
natural wonders of the Americas made him the nation's most
celebrated landscape painter. Includes live footage of the
Catskills and of Church's final work of art--"Olana," his splendid
house overlooking the Hudson River.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND237.C52 L3 1989
The National Gallery of Art.
Presents America's art collection: its origins, the magnificent
collections and a guided tour of the galleries.
Johnson Center Videodiscs
N856 .N327
A New spirit in painting.
Examination of the work of: Markus Lüpertz, David Salle,
Sandro Chia, Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, Georg
Baselitz.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND195 .N478
Non-existent reality.
Compares the realistic environment with the artistic creations
from a Lucas van Leyden triptych to Drupsteen's spectacle
with state-of-the-art video techniques.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6946 .N66 1992
One hundred great paintings.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND1143.O6 C5
Painters painting.
Illustrates and examines the work and ideas of several modern
abstract expressionist painters, including Willem de Kooning,
Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, and Andy Warhol, and
others. Features interviews with the artists.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND212.5.A25 P3 1989
Picasso, war, peace, love.
Deals with the works of Pablo Picasso from Guernica onward,
showing photographs from several museums, galleries, and
private collections. Presents live sequences of the artist in his
studio near Cannes.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND553 .P5 1986
Portraits.
Concentrates on the conventions, innovations and institutions
affecting the practice of portrait painting.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND1330 .P67
Rembrandt.
Two-part program with part one being an overview of
Rembrandt's work, part two a documentation of the
restoration of his painting "The Night Watch".
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND653.R4 R46
Roy Lichtenstein.
This video features one of the great pop artists of our time,
discussing his work, his artistic process and the sources of his
inspiration. Also featured are the artist's large-scale murals,
his Relections Series and his Interior Series.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND237.L627 R69 1993
Two faces of the seventeenth century.
Program explores two 17th century masterpieces of painting in
the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Rembrandt's Self-Portrait (1660) is compared with his many
other self-portraits. Velasquez' Juan de Pareja (1650) is
examined alone in close detail.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N7592.5 .T86 1984
Velazquez.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND813.V4 V45
The Vever affair.
Tells the tale of the long-lost Vever collection of Persian and
Indian paintings. The program assesses the significance of
the collection, perhaps the most important acquisition in the
history of the Smithsonian Institution.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N5220 .V39 1989
Ways of seeing.
Consists of four programs, each presenting the classical arts in
different contemporary terms. Considers the ways paintings
are distorted by the mass media that transmits them,
examines the ways in which women are portrayed in art,
discusses paintings as material possessions, and shows how
paintings are used in advertising.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND1142 .W3
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Last reviewed May, 2002