Title: The world's greatest paintings
Description: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their qualities of uniqueness, impact, and emotional and intellectual resonance. The lectures are arranged chronologically, showing what painters of contrasting traditions and cultures were doing in the same period, thus following the progressive unfolding of each painter's art. These lectures open rich perspectives on Western civilization through encounters with some of the most significant, daring, and sublime paintings in Western art.
Subjects: Fauvism, American Art, Abstract expressionism, French Art, Flemish Art, Dutch Art, Renaissance Art, Realism in art, European Art, Neo-impressionism (Art), German Art, Classicism in art, Painting, Artistic Masterpiece, Romanticism in art, Baroque Art, Symbolism (Art movement), Surrealism, Art nouveau, Modern Art, Italian Art, Impressionism (Art), Art appreciation, Cubism
People: Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Masaccio (1401-1428), Matthias Grünewald (active 16th century), John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Georges du Mesnil de La Tour (1593-1652), Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Correggio (1489?-1534), Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), Frans Hals (1584-1666), Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669), Piero della Francesca (1416?-1492), Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), Geertgen tot Sint Jans (approximately 1460-1495), Claude Monet (1840-1926), Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), Rogier van der Weyden (1399 or 1400-1464), John Constable (1776-1837), Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), Giovanni Bellini (1426?-1516), Vincent van Gogh (1820-1888), Duccio di Buoninsegna (-1319?), Hans Holbein (1497-1543), René Magritte (1898-1967), Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), Jan Steen (1626-1679), Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), Hendrik Terbrugghen (1588?-1629), Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), Giorgione (1477 or 1478-1510), Georges Seurat (1859-1891), Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Pieter Bruegel (approximately 1525-1569), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Sandro Botticelli (1444 or 1445-1510), Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), Greco (1541?-1614), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Jan van Eyck (1390-1440), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Giotto (1266?-1337), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Manet, Édouard (1832-1883), Nicolas Poussin (1594?-1665), Titian (approximately 1488-1576), Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Raphael (1483-1520)