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How to Look at & Understand Great Art
Sharon Latchaw Hirsh![Class Preview](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/11164350/How_to_Understand_Great_Art_Hirsh_16x9_titlecard-768x432.jpg)
- In-depth Instruction; over 1107 mins
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![The Importance of First Impressions](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12195629/7640_01.jpg)
![Where Am I? Point of View & Focal Point](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12195934/7640_02.jpg)
![Color-Description, Symbol & More](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12200020/7640_03.jpg)
![Line-Description & Expression](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12200104/7640_04.jpg)
![Space, Shape, Shade & Shadow](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12200149/7640_05.jpg)
![Seeing the Big Picture-Composition](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12200231/7640_06.jpg)
![The Illusion-Getting the Right Perspective](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12200316/7640_07.jpg)
![Art That Moves Us-Time & Motion](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12200404/7640_08.jpg)
![Feeling with Our Eyes-Texture & Light](https://cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/6168786647001/52fc8d53-d820-4aba-8503-d7ce676065f3/6b4713d0-cff9-4cfc-9a28-7178b8175d54/1920x1080/match/image.jpg)
![Drawing-Dry, Liquid & Modern Media](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12200513/7640_10.jpg)
![Printmaking-Relief & Intaglio](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12200612/7640_11.jpg)
![Modern Printmaking-Planographic](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12200813/7640_12.jpg)
![Sculpture-Salt Cellars to Monuments](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12200900/7640_13.jpg)
![Development of Painting-Tempera & Oils](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12200945/7640_14.jpg)
![Modern Painting-Acrylics & Assemblages](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12201033/7640_15.jpg)
![Subject Matters](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12201149/7640_16.jpg)
![Signs-Symbols, Icons & Indexes in Art](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12201324/7640_17.jpg)
![Portraits-How Artists See Others](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12201408/7640_18.jpg)
![Self-Portraits-How Artists See Themselves](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12201453/7640_19.jpg)
![Landscapes-Art of the Great Outdoors](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12201537/7640_20.jpg)
![Putting It All Together](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12201620/7640_21.jpg)
![Early Renaissance-Humanism Emergent](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12201705/7640_22.jpg)
![Northern Renaissance-Devil in the Details](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12201749/7640_23.jpg)
![High Renaissance-Humanism Perfected](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12201835/7640_24.jpg)
![Mannerism & Baroque-Distortion & Drama](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12201925/7640_25.jpg)
![Going Baroque-North versus South](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12202010/7640_26.jpg)
![18th-Century Reality & Decorative Rococo](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12202153/7640_27.jpg)
![Revolutions-Neoclassicism & Romanticism](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12202332/7640_28.jpg)
![From Realism to Impressionism](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12202414/7640_29.jpg)
![Postimpressionism-Form & Content Re-Viewed](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12202501/7640_30.jpg)
![Expressionism-Empathy & Emotion](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12202551/7640_31.jpg)
![Cubism-An Experiment in Form](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12202650/7640_32.jpg)
![Abstraction/Modernism-New Visual Language](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12202745/7640_33.jpg)
![Dada Found Objects/Surreal Doodles & Dreams](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12202825/7640_34.jpg)
![Postmodernism-Focus on the Viewer](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12202927/7640_35.jpg)
![Your Next Museum Visit-Do It Yourself!](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/12203005/7640_36.jpg)
The 36 richly illustrated lectures of How to Look at and Understand Great Art take you on an in-depth exploration of the practical skill of viewing art through the lenses of line, light, perspective, composition, and other crucial elements. Using timeless masterpieces of Western art as well as hands-on studio demonstrations, Professor Sharon Latchaw Hirsh gives you the specific visual and interpretive knowledge you need to enhance your appreciation of great art.
Sharon Latchaw Hirsh
Sharon Latchaw Hirsh has served as president of Rosemont College since 2006. She completed her undergraduate degree in the history of art and studio art at Rosemont and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of art from the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Hirsh's awards include the Charles A. Dana Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, and the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from Dickinson College. She served as a senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and as a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado, the Swiss Institute for Art Research, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
![Sharon Latchaw Hirsh](https://d2culxnxbccemt.cloudfront.net/craft/content/uploads/2023/02/11165033/Hirsh_Sharon-Latchaw.jpg)
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How to Look at & Understand Great Art
with Sharon Latchaw Hirsh