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Learning to Look

This section focuses on the elements of art: color, line, shape, value, space, texture, and balance.
  1. Color: Bassano - The Flight into Egypt
  2. Line: Degas - Seated Dancer Rubbing Her Leg
  3. Shape: Picasso - The Bull
  4. Balance: Chardin - Still Life with Fowl
  5. Value: Rembrandt - Portrait of a Bearded Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat
  6. Space: Pannini - Interior of Saint Peter's, Rome
  7. Texture: van Gogh - The Mulberry Tree
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Religions Across the World

Art can communicate religious ideas and beliefs. Explore religious works from Asia and Europe.
  1. Thailand: Mon-Dvaravati Period – Buddha Shakyamuni
  2. India: Uttar Pradesh – Vishnu as the Boar (Varaha) Avatar
  3. Giovanni di Paolo - The Branchini Madonna
  4. Baciccio - Saint Joseph and the Infant Christ
  5. Cranach – Adam
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Shifts in Thinking

Turning points in European art and culture from the Renaissance to the 19th century.
  1. Raphael - Madonna and Child with Book
  2. Bosschaert, the Elder - Flowers in a Glass Beaker
  3. Rubens - St. Ignatius of Loyola
  4. Fragonard - Happy Lovers
  5. Francisco de Goya y Lucientes: Los Caprichos - The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
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The Collectible Moment: Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum

Learn about the different techniques of renowned photographers by exploring select works in the Norton Simon Museum's photography collection.
  1. Introduction
  2. Artist Profile-Barbara Morgan
  3. Artist Profile-Ansel Adams
  4. Artist Profile-Frederick Sommer
  5. Artist Profile-Keith Jacobshagen
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