Describes the basic features of domestic architectural styles, such as Tudor, Neo-classical, Queen Anne, bungalow, ranch, Prairie, International, and Post-modern.

Old home expert Bob Vila surveys homes in various parts of the United States. 

1. The Republic of Virtue (60 Min.) -- Some of the first images made in America resemble ancient ones.  Jeferson and the Founding Fathers feel that classicism lends the young national power and authority.  From heroic statues of George Washington to the architecture of Washington, D.C., the new republic adopts and transforms the classical style to serve a new, democratic ideal.
2. The Promised Land (60 Min.) -- Before there is an America, disparate bands of settlers strive to carve out an identity in a virgin land.  In the West, Spanish missions use art to convert the natives to Catholicism.  In the East, plain Protestant settlers are suspicious of art's pleasures.  And in Virginia, an exiled aristocracy recreates its ideal of England.  Early portraits of these settlers ask us to consider the emergency of this new person, this American.
3. The Wilderness and the West (60 Min.) -- From the majestic primal America, there arises the idea of landscape as God's fingerprint.  Landscape painting holds deep religious and patriotic connotations; soon, the belief in Manifest Destiny is embodied in art.  Traveling from Yellowstone to the Hudson Valley, Hughes explores the artists Albert Bierstadt, John James Audubon, Frederic Church, Frederic Remington and Thomas Cole.  In their work he finds the conflicting impulses to worship the land and to conquer it, to create a myth of the West just as the frontier itself is closing.
4. The Gilded Age (60 Min.) -- The many sides of America in the 19th century:  the extravagant "cottages" of Newsport's tycoons, the triumph of the Brooklyn Bridge, the haunting realism of Civil War photography, the elegant portraits of John Singer Sargent, the American Impressionism of James Whistler and Mary Cassatt.  Together with a new breed of distinctly American artists like Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer, they mirror widely different experiences of the American Dream.
5. A Wave from the Atlantic (60 Min.) -- Waves of immigrants in the early 20th century bring both their old culture and a thirst for the new.  Their tenements are documented by photographer Jacob Riis and the socially conscious Ashcan School.  Then, after the historic 1913 Armory show, artists like Joseph Stella, Paul Strand, Alfred Steiglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe forge a modernism that is uniquely American.  Some celebrate the industrial sublime.  Yet nature is the inspiration that leads Frank Lloyd Wright to develop an organic architecture at the heart of modern design.
6. Streamlines and Breadlines (60 Min.) -- The mythic images of the 1920's and 30's are as urban as the skyscrapers rising up in New York and as rural as the heartland idealized by Regionalists like Thomas Hart Benton, Isamu Noguchi, Lewis Hine, and the artists of the WPA celebrate the worker as hero, Jacob Lawrence tells stories of black America, and ambitious New Deal projects like Hoover Dam project self-confidence in hard times.  Which is the real modern America -- the isolation painted by Edward Hopper, or the jazzy vitality captured by Stuart Davis?
7. The Empire of Signs (60 Min.) -- In the post-war era, America's power is unrivaled, and its artists make an explosive break with the past.  Hughes considers the impact of Hiroshima on art, traces the development of abstract expressionism and the life of Jackson Pollack, and explores how artists as differest as James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns reacted to the new consumer culture.  We end with the nation on the even of divisive conflicts, as media images begin to overwhelm anything created by artists.
8. The Age of Anxiety (60 Min.) -- Our final program explores how American art has reflected the upheavals of the last 25 years.  Hughes traces the evolution of abstract art and minimalism and consiers the spiritual richness of earth works, in which nature is the artist's medium.  He ends the series by profiling a wide range of contemporary artists.  Using a diversity of mediums and approaches, Richard Serra, Susan Rothenbert, James Turrell and others continue to capture uniquely American visions.

The artist leads students through the techniques to create four collages.  Simple tissue paper shapes are glued overlapping on paper to create a still life collage.  Letters from a name are cut from construction paper, then cut again into three pieces, arranged, and glued.  Stained papers are torn into shapes, glued on aper, then painted with watercolor or tempera.  Pictures are arranged and glued over a facila profile to make a photo montage autobiographical statement.

Using examples, the artist clearly explains abstract art and shows how to abstract representational images.  He then demonstrates step-by-step five methods to create abstraction in a painting--simplification of shapes, distortion, emphasis on overlapping shapes and fracturing, vertical displacement, and contour continuation.  Through these examples, he illustrates how design becomes more important than the subject in abstract art.

An easy step-by-step demonstration on how to draw noses, mouths, eyes, hair and skin tones. 

For thousands of years, artists were anonymous, yet today they are frequently honored as celebrities.  How did this change in perspective come about?  This program tracks the cultural evolution of art--from the ancient Greeks to the modern world, where art is big business--and addresses the technological changes that have fueled various artistic revolutions down through the centuries. 

Traditional origami (art of paper folding)--learn to fold 6 bases plus 18 fun projects for beginners of all ages.

Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison portray two of the Renaissance's most colorful figures in this historical drama based on Irving Stone's best-seller set in the early 16th century.  When Pope Julius II (Harrison) commissions Michaelangelo (Heston) to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel., the artist initially refuses.  Virtually forced to do the job by Julius, he later destroys his own work and flees Rome.  Eventually resumed, the project becomes a battle of wills fueled by artistic and temperamental differences that form the core of this movie.

A tribute to the artist M. C. Escher. Described as the master of impossible objects - possible to conceive, but impossible to convey in 3-dimensional space, Escher used light, geometry and higher mathematics to instruct and to entertain. His art has been hailed as the meeting of science and imagination.

No man better fits the term Renaissance Man than this illegitimate son of a notary in the small Italian village of Vinci.  Leonardo da Vinci's countless accomplishments include pioneering work in the field of human anatomy, the invention of the helicopter and creation of the world's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.  His statue of a horseman was considered to be the greatest work of sculpture in the world when it was completed in 1493.  Unfortunately, it was destoryed in 1500.  Among his surviving works of art are the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa.  Da Vinci was also a brillian engineer.  He studied the flight of birds and designed parachutes and flying machines.  His studies of the human body led to a comprehensive atlas of the muscles, bones, and organs.  He designed underwater breathing systems, hydraulic motors, advance flood control systems, and was a pioneer in the study of light and senses.  Advances and invention in the years since his death have served to substantiate the impressive and progressive nature of Leonardo da Vinci's intellectual capacity.  It is no exaggeration to call him the greatest creative mind of all times.

Examines the broad canvas of Michelangelo's life and legacy to probe the very soul of the artist who in his own lifetime was called genius.

Explores the life of Pablo Picasso, the Spanish painter and sculptor.

This beautiful profile of Vincent van Gogh and his work was filmed at locations in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and features dozens of his beloved paintings.  The artist's role in the Impressionist movement is assessed and his visual style and technique are examined in a way that will help the viewers appreicate Vincent's revolutionary contributions to modern art.  This loving portrait of a tormented but brilliant artist will be enjoyed by Gogh's countless fans for years to come.

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Cluster # 3 

Communications, Entertainment, and the Arts 

• Advertising Creator (11:37 Min.)
• Apprentice Photographer (10:18 Min.)
• Assistant Engineer (11 Min.)
• Camera Technician (12 Min.)
• Electronic Production Artist (10 Min.)
• Film Processing Technician (11:28 Min.)
• Printing Press Feeder (9 Min.)
• Production Assistant (11:02 Min.)
• Theme Park Supervisor (11:10 Min.)
• Visitor Services Representative (11:02 Min.)

Helps viewers understand and create beauty, harmony, balance, and comfort in everyday living environments.  The video teaches basic aesthetics as applied to interior design and clothing.  Special emphasis is given to the meaning of lines, the creation and recognition of visual rhythm, visual balance (both formal and informal, proportion, focal points and grouping.

Valerie Arelt takes you into her wondrous world of flowers via this richly detailed  tape which makes it possible for you to create your own floral masterpieces!  Such an easy way to learn the basics of flower arranging.

The artist introduces linear perspective demonstrating the need to see perspective in order to draw it.  He then shows how to make one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective drawings using boxes, landscapes, and buildings as subjects.  He also shows why posts look shorter and closer together as they go into the distance and demonstrates the method he uses to place them accurately.  In the final demonstration, he shows how to draw cylinders in perspective from below, head-on, and above using a vase containing colored water.

Using step-by-step demonstrations, artist and educator Tony Couch shows the techniques he uses to create sketches and drawing with felt-tip markers.  His first demonstration is a nautical scene drawing using three basic values including black and two values of gray.  Then, he creats a dramatic still life of fruits and vegetabales with colored markers.  In this demonstration, he first develops the shapes and colors before adding darker values to create form and dimension.  He completes the painting by addind dark accents.  The artist shows that skillful handling of this drawing medium can give you exceptional works of art.

Tony Couch, artist, educator and author, shows how easy it is to create professional-looking drawings using basic methods with pencil and ink, and you'll be able to incorporate these techniques in your drawings and paintings after viewing this video program.  Giving special emphasis to values and modeling, he first creates a coastline landscape with pencil.  He uses accent line, texture, and shading to draw rocks, trees, weeds and water.  Then, to show you how drawing can be used with other media, he demonstates another landscape by drawing with ink and brush over a loosely painted watercolor wash.

Tony Couch, professional artist, educator and author demonstrates the professional drawing techniques he feels are necessary to create a work of art.  These include contour drawing, creating a gesture drawing of a figure and developing one-point and two-point perspective form different views.  He also shows you how to use accent line to create interest and to use basic shapes in developing your drawings and to incorporate cross hatching and shading to produce form and dimension.  Using theese techniques, he then completes three landscape drawings.  These include pencil, colored markers, and ink with a bamboo pen over a watercolor wash.

Different types of pastels including hard, soft, oil, iridescent, and pencil are shown and their properties explained.  Demonstration drawings of a variety of subjects show how the pastels are used and include still lifes of fruit, flowers, and vegetables, a landscape, a fashion drawing, a dog, and tropical fish.  The artist also demonstrates how to combine oil pastels with turpentine for opaque drawings and how soft pastels can be used on velour to create effective textural drawings.

Artist and educator Tony Couch graphically shows you how to create dynamic compositons for your paintings using the elements of design:  line, shape, value, color, texture, and direction, and how these are applied to each of the principles:  balance, harmony, gradation, repetition, contrast, dominance, and unity.  He shows you how to add interest to your art as he diagrams the elements and principles on camera using his own paintings and masterworks by other artists.  For example, he shows how shapes are combined to create balance, how values create contrast, or how color is used for unity.

The artist introduces the seven elements of design--line, shape, form, color, value, texture, and space.  Each of the seven elements is explored and clearly explained with diagrams and hands-on demonstrations which help reinforce the concepts and illustrate how they are used to develop a composition.  These include drawings, paintings, collages, and sculpture.  (The video, The Principles of Design, is also available in our library and complements this program.)

Tony Couch brings his watercolor teaching methods to video.  You will join Tony on location as he prepares a reference marker drawing of a mountain barn and establishes his value pattern and composition.  Then, you will see a complete step-by-step demonstration of his watercolor painting, and he will explain to you in simple terms what he's doing and why.  The camera gives you close-up views of how he uses color, shape, texture, and value in painting barns, trees, weeds, and sky in this easy-to-follow demonstration.

Tony Couch shares his painting skills as he portrays a mountain stream, trees, weeds, rocks, and water.  He arranges the light, middle, and dark values to create a center of interest, and you see how color, lines, shapes, and textures are used to develop a strong design.  The camera leads you step-by-step through the easy-to-follow process of painting the landscape with many dynamic close-up views.  A valuable video for beginning and advanced watercolorists.

In this program, Gerald Brommer shows how the elements of design are combined and used in developing the seven principles of design--balance, movement, rhythm, contrast, emphasis, pattern, and unity.  Each of the seven principles is explored and clearly explained with diagrams and hands-on demonstrations which help reinforce each of the concepts and to illustrate how they are used in a composition.  (The video, The Elements of Design, is availabe in our library and complements this program.)

1. Drawing Basics, How To Shade & More -- (45 Min.) -- Draw along in your book as Sandra Angelo guides you through an easy four step drawing system showing the basics of drawing for beginners including secret shading techniques, special methods for creating texture, how to make an object look round and more.  She make it so easy, anyone can do it!
2. The Easy Way To Draw:  Flowers, Landscapes & Water -- (45 Min.) Draw along in your book as Sandra Angelo demonstates easy step by step methods for drawing delicate flowers, lush landscapes, and shimmering water using dry and water soluble graphite pencils.
3. The Easy Way to Draw:  Cats, Dogs, & Wild Animals -- (60 Min.) --Filmed at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, Sandra Angelo leads you through easy step by step techniques for drawing wild and domestic animals like shaggy dogs, fluffy cats, saggy baggy elephants, and wiry gorillas.
4. The Easy Way to Draw:  Faces -- (45 Min.) -- Learn key secrets for capturing a likeness as Sandra Angelo demonstrates step by step methods of drawing noses, eyes, mouths, skin tones, and hair.  You'll be amazed at how easy it is to get a likeness when you use these special techniques from a nationally acclaimed portrait artist.

Watercolor equipment and basic principles; watercolor composition and techniques; watercolor demonstrations.

Mastering watercolor techniques; learning watercolor skills.

Design and composition in watercolor painting; watercolor techniques in landscapes and seascapes.

Peggy Flores shows how to create colorful and decorative masks from clay.  She starts with a clay slab which is then placed over a form to create the basic face shape.  She then develops the facial features including eyes, eye brows, nose, cheeks, mouth, and lips.  After the clay dries, it is placed in an electric kiln.  The mask is completed by painting and adding raffia, yarn, pipe cleaners, and feathers for the ahir and to decorate the finished mask.  This program also includes many examples of student masks.

Teacher Peggy Flores demonstrates the art of making dimensional paper masks from construction paper in this lively video.  After folding a sheet of paper in half, she forms it into the basic face, then adds a nose, colorful eyes, eyebrows, mouth, ears, and hair using scraps of paper she cuts, then curls, twists, bends, and shapes.  She shows how to turn these simple paper masks into as many different faces as the imagination of your students can make them.  Complete techniques and materials are shown.

A series explaining basic camera techniques such as shutter speeds, exposures, color and black & white techniques and possible photographic careers.  

1. Basic Camera Techniques 
2. Basic Daylight & Equivalent Exposure 
3. Exposure Controls
4. Advanced Camera Techniques
5. Black and White Techniques
6. Careers in Photography

1. The Business of Photography: Preparing Your Portfolio, Selling Your Services, Career Opportunities -- Whether you're already a working pro or just beginning to think about a career in photography, this tape is for you.  You'll meet the art directors and the editors who actually buy pictuers and give out the profitable assignments.    This video contains three half-hour chapters for easy viewing on choosing your direction; the "best" portfolio; editing & more editing; how the business works; the interview; staff opportunities; breaking in & staying in; reps & stock agencies; three major markets; and if you freelance.
2. The Darkroom: Setting Up Your Darkroom, B&W Processing & Printing, Basics of Color -- This video is a must for any person who wants to develop and print both black-and-white and color photographs.  Darkroom techniques are as unique as the photographer performing them.  Learn how to make each photograph as individual as your fingerprint -- darkroom layout/equipment; chemicals & paper; developing B&W films; proofing; making an enlargement; negative & print faults; special printing methods; understanding color; developing color films; color printing.
3. Photographic Design:  Camera Vision, Composition, Designing with Light & Color -- Fast-paced and packed with information, this tape is a must for any photographer who's serious about understanding and using the principles of good photographic design.  It's all here for you to learn and enjoy in three half-hour chapters for easy viewing on camera choice; lens choice; framing; selective focus; design; design principles; light direction; light quality, controlling light & color; and psychology of color.
4. Photographic Light:  Light, Exposure Control, Lighting -- "To write with light," that's what the word "photography", which comes from the ancient Greeks, literally means.  Each half-hour chapter explores and illustrates the principles of "how light works".  This video will help you better control and manipulate light in your photography--direction/form; contrast; color; measuring light; tonal control; film latitutde; natural light; available light; electronic flash; and artificial light.
5. The Studio:  Studio & Product Lighting, Large Format Camera; People Photography -- You know you've become serious about photography when you start thinking about a studio of your own.  You will get detailed and practical ideas about how to layout and equip your studio to gain optimum results for product and people photography.  This video contains three half-hour chapters for easy viewing--studio layout & design; lighting for the studio; still life photography; special challenges; classic view camera; loading sheet film; view camera techniques; shifts, wings & tilts; formal portrait; and candids.
6. The Video Guide to Basic 35mm Photography:  the SLR Camera, Taking Better Pictures, Applications -- This video is the starting point for any person wishing to learn photography.  This is a practical, easy-to-follow guide, containing three half-hour chapters for easy viewing.  This is where it begins!  -- How the camera works; "F" stops/shutter speeds; your camer's meter; camera lenses; film; available light; flash photography; steady shooting; finding pictures; and portraits.
7. The Video Guide to Basic Videography:  Understanding Video, Shooting Home Videos, Getting Serious -- Lights, Camera, Action . . . This basic guide to videography takes the mystery out of shooting effective, entertaining videos.  This basis tape is the starting point for any person wishing to learn the exciting, colorful world of video.  Presented in three half-hour chapters for easy viewing--video theory, formats; cameras/recorders; using your camera; pre-production; production; post-production; basic maintenance; lighting for video, and video markets.

Photography, Desktop Publishing and Graphic Arts are three methods used to communicate.  These processes, although mostly visual in nature, communicate messages to all of us each day.  This video is designed to provide an overview of photography, graphic arts, and desktop publishing, explaining how each communications system is used and the different careers each offers.  Viewers will learn essentials of photography, the many aspects of graphic arts, and how desktop publishing has revolutionized the publishing business.

Introduces basic techniques and some innovative ideas in handbuilding ceramics.

This program presents basic information on the firing process and glaze chemistry.  Electric, gas and barrel firing are discussed, glaze types are compared, and glaze and slip techniques are demonstrated.

Artist Christine LePage combines the ceramic techniques of hard slab, soft slab and press molds to create a sculpture, which is then barrel fired.  A student sculptor demonstrated the hollowing method.

Three potters are featured in this introduction to handbuilt pottery techniques, demonstrating coil, hard slab, press molds and soft slab forming, using stoneware, raku and porcelain.

Potter Gary Roehborn provides a start-to-finish demonstration of wheel thorwing, including:  trimming, handle attachment, bisquing, glazing and firing. 

Instead of merely looking at the masterpieces of the ages experience the opportunity to color, adapt and examine them.  Learn about perspective by warping the view of a Dali painting, see how different light sources affect familiar classics.  Give a Van Gogh a different palette of colors to see how it affects the mood of the piece.  Students will alsofine out about the background of some of history's greatest artists through a fully interactive searchable multimedia database.

History of Western art with over a thousand images indexed by artist, title, medium, school, and subject.  Each entry has a data card, and many have biographies and essays.