The Cityscape Video (DVD)

The Cityscape Video. Beginning with the Renaissance and moving to the modern era, it shows the process that artists undertake to celebrate their cities. This is perfect for the landscape and cityscape artist who wants to delve into the history and process of creation. Unlike landscape, one of cityscapes problems is dealing with the bound of light and unique spatial perspective. The demarcation of private and public spaces in the capacity of art is complex but worthy. This programs shows the depiction of solitary city-dwellers, as well as crowds and gatherings. The place of artists and their creations has evolved over centuries becoming more diverse as well as more in depth. This shows representations that are deconstructed, and reconstructed. It shows how the artists dealt with subtle but difficult issues of spatial perspective, as well as dealing with the uses of light dealing with sun, rain and cloudy mottled days. It illustrates it in utopias and dystopias, an amalgam of ideas, light and lines.(27 minutes.) Art History, Art and Photography 2002.

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