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Looking at Painting
How to read a painting
Grade Levels:
9-12
Length:
60 minutes
Taping Rights:
Unlimited
MARC Record:
Downloadable
Web Site:
KET Online
Teaching Materials:
See Below

Artist-host Robert Tharsing introduces the art of painting through interviews with Kentucky artists, visits to their studios, and discussion of techniques, elements, and principles in selected paintings. Using works from Kentucky art museums and the National Gallery of Art, by contemporary Kentucky artists and artists from other times and places, the series demonstrates how to “read” a painting. Each program focuses on a particular style of painting, with the series moving from realism to more abstract styles as students gain knowledge about themes and purposes and get practice in responding to artworks.

Looking at Painting is a 2001 KET production.


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2007/08 Block Feeds on KET ED

Block Feed: Programs 101-103 Program Details
3 hours
    Monday, November 19 at 8:30 am on KETED
    Thursday, January 10 at 2:00 am on KETED
    Monday, April 21 at 8:30 am on KETED


Episodes Included in These Block Feeds

101. Realism
Four Kentucky realist painters—Gaela Erwin (Louisville), Dal Macon (Whitley County), Laurin Notheisen (Bowling Green), and Sheldon Tapley (Danville)—illustrate how the real world inspires and informs their work. 56 minutes.

102. Expressionism
Five Kentucky painters whose work falls between realism and abstraction—Patrick Adams (Nicholasville), Mark Priest (Louisville), Guinever Smith (Louisville), Karen Spears (Lexington), and Ann Tower (Lexington)—explain how they infuse the observed world with personal emotions and intellectual concerns. 57 minutes.

103. Abstraction
Paint and process take precedence over image in the work of five Kentucky abstract painters: Nancy Cassell (Union), Henry Chodkowski (Louisville), Gerald Ferstman (Lexington), Sam Gilliam (Louisville and Washington, DC), and Ivan Schieferdecker (Bowling Green). 57 minutes.

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