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How to Look at and Understand Great Art

1 Season
36 Episode

How to Look at and Understand Great Art - Season 1 Episode 18 Portraits—How Artists See Others


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48 minutes 2025 HD

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In examining the diverse functions and types of portraits, study the important elements of facial presentation and the subject's position and gaze with relation to the viewer and the pictorial space. See how Rembrandt added dramatic power to his group "corporation" portraits, and how David carefully rendered Napoleon in symbolic terms.

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