About the video: The History of Art
Overview
“Now I'm going to talk to you about the importance of art history in your practice. ”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: The History of Art, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing. Master Pencil and Charcoal by focusing on light, shadow, and proportion to create expressive, realistic drawings.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will now talk about the importance of art history. You have to know that art is a fairly visual language. To understand this language, It may be interesting to analyze the images that seem successful to you. For this, we can look at what we call works of art, masterpieces. There is always a context in art history, depending on the time, the culture. It's interesting to see how these artists worked on their subjects according to their time. How we, ourselves, can reuse what they have used, perhaps have the same subjects, but transcribe them differently in a different medium...”
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Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing
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Architectural Illustration, Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration

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