Full History of Art: Lecture Course

Paola Volkova - Soviet and Russian art critic, cultural historian, teacher, leading the author’s program “Bridge over the Abyss” about the masterpieces of fine art on the Culture television channel. A brilliant teacher and narrator, through her books, lectures and conversations, she instilled a sense of beauty to her students and interlocutors, trying to reach their souls. Volkova. The first is a “commentary on antiquity”, where new connections between forms are traced - from Stonehenge to the Globe Theater, from Crete to Spanish Corrida, from European Mediterranean to conceptualism of the 20th century - all this is connected and cannot exist without each other. “I suppose,” said Paola Dmitrievna, “that the whole story of the culture that we know is a continuous history of commentary. We are still commenting on antiquity. Thanks to this endless comment with world artistic culture, we have psychological, intellectual and spiritual wealth. ”
The second book“ Mystics and Humanists ”is dedicated to the Renaissance. Artists of this period Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael and Titian, Jerome Bosch and Peter Bruegel the Elder were not just artists. They were philosophers charged with the main problems of time. Returning to the ideals of antiquity, they created a whole, with internal unity of the concept of the world, filled traditional religious subjects with earthly content.
The last book included in this course of lectures tells about the phenomenon of impressionism. Eduard Manet and Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lontrek and Paul Gauguin tried to convey to the viewer Impression, the beauty of everyday reality, and convey what the eye sees at a particular moment, but it turned out that their work is once and Forever affected all subsequent art.
The book invites the reader on a fascinating journey through the centuries, where, following the story of an art critic, he will be able to comprehend in a new way the images of world art culture