Disc 1: The importance of first Impressions --
Where am I? point of view and focal point --
Color: description, symbol and more --
Line: description and expression --
Space, shape, shade, and shadow --
Seeing the big picture: composition --
Disc 2: The illusion: getting the right perspective --
Art that moves us: time and motion --
Feeling with our eyes: texture and light --
Drawing: dry, liquid, and modern media --
Printmaking: relief and intaglio --
Modern printmaking: planographic --
disc 3: Sculpture: salt cellars to monuments --
Development of painting: tempera and oils --
Modern painting: acrylics and assemblages --
Signs: symbols, icons, and indexes in art --
Portraits: how artists see others --
disc 4: Self-portraits: how artists see themselves --
Landscapes: art of the great outdoors --
Putting it all together --
Early Renaissance: humanism emergent --
Northern Renaissance: devil in the details --
High Renaissance: humanism perfected --
disc 5: Mannerism and Baroque: distortion and drama --
Going Baroque: north versus south --
18th century reality and decorative Rococo --
Revolutions: neoclassicism and romanticism --
From Realism to Impressionism --
Postimpressionism: form and content re-viewed --
disc 6: Expressionism: empathy and emotion --
Cubism: an experiment in form --
Abstraction/Modernism: new visual language --
Dada found objects/Surreal doodles and dreams --
Postmodernism: focus on the viewer --
Your next museum visit: do it yourself.