REALLY gets goin' at
This is an excerpt from a BBC documentary on French neoclassicist painter Jacques-Louis David. We watched this movie in my Western Art II class the other day, and unlike other art documentaries, this one kept me on the edge of my SEAT! With its strategic use of red food coloring (40:50), slow zoom in's and out's (43:15), spot-on dramatizations (36:37), and repetition of the same dramatic opera song about ten times throughout the one hour episode, this movie had me more passionate about old French painters than EVER before.
I bet anything test score averages would sky rocket if Simon Schama made videos like these about algebra and chemistry for high school kids.
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