IRL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Aerial Perspective
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The differences between northern renaissance and italian renaissance . Religious stories continue to be the most important themes artists illustrated, but portraiture becomes increasingly important. This is a movie on netflix about the nazi looting of art from countries they occupied during world war ii. Historical events are accurately enacted in the movie, which stars george clooney, Matt damon, bill murray, cate blanchett and john goodman. It is fun to watch, and another reminder of iconoclastic urges that periodically erupt in societies, for all sorts of awful reasons. It is very long, but as the first in this series it explains in detail many aspects of painting techniques, materials and costs that hold for oil painting as well. Pay close attention to what the surface or ground is, how it is prepared, the media (egg or oil), !1 the pigments, especially what they say about ultramarine, because it explains why the.