Space, Shape, Shade, and Shadow
How to Look at and Understand Great Art - Lectures

Space, Shape, Shade, and Shadow ()

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Examine geometric and "organic" shapes in painting and sculpture and the crucial relationship of figure to ground and mass to space. Then, explore the illusionistic use of shading, shadows, and overlapping shapes in Caravaggio's and Friedrich's works, and the compositional power of shapes in paintings such as Matisse's "Dance" and Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam".