Studying Art History

[quizbowlchamp1]

This is another post similar to my Studying Religion and On Studying Science and Geography, but I digress.

Does anyone have any good resources for studying art history? I would extremely appreciate free resources, YouTube courses, and websites.

[DavidB256]

https://www.youtube.com/@smarthistoryvideos

[BulldogBuzzers]

I'll meet the ante with this: https://www.youtube.com/@GreatArtExplained

[InfinitePeng]

Khan Academy has excellent art history timeline content. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history


I also find The Art Story to be a useful resource for gaining decent knowledge about major movements.

https://www.theartstory.org/

[mrtyrmystry]

Artle Artists labeled Easy or Medium likely to come up
Web Gallery of Art European Art. Americans too (the Search box is pretty small towards the bottom)

smarthistory videos are very nice to listen to but ill be honest not all of them will come up often in quizbowl
pick artists that do and learn about them

EDIT: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art.htm
I like this website too. I wouldn't go chronologically. Learn about whatever interests you, but don't get lost.

[Mike Bentley]

Taking an intro to art history survey class is one of the better class time to quizbowl points ratios out there.

[quizbowlchamp1]

Taking an intro to art history class

Our high school has a class, but I have to wait a few years to take it. Do you (or anyone else for that matter) know of any online class/YouTube lectures that follow a similar curriculum?

[Antrobus63]

There are several ways to study art, but I favor knowing a few things really well and then spreading out from there, according to your own taste as you become more knowledgeable.

Nothing beats going to museums and seeing great art in person--that experience tends to stick with you. However, I'd start with some entertaining documentaries first. They plant artists and their work clearly in your mind.

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Simon Schama's "Power of Art" series about pivotal works by eight artists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX_KWIvIVM8

Schama starts with Caravaggio (always fun)

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"Looking at 20th Century Art Through the Eyes of a Physicist"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PALPjZb ... ro8L_890OT

A lecture by a physicist ?!. This guy is very enthusiastic and very clear as he surveys early-mid 20th century movements.

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Once you've got the context--the artists' lives and their contemporaries... the stuff happening in the world around them--everything starts to click and stick.