Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Homevision
• VHS Release Date: June 13, 2000
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630330429X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,754 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best - we need this on DVD!, November 20, 2003

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professormovie "professormovie" (Ewa Beach, HI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Masters of Illusion [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This exploration of visual illusions, explained by James Burke in the context of its discovery by the Renaissance masters, and now used by Hollywood special effects wizards is certainly of the most valuable and entertaining educational videos ever produced. If you teach art or film, or if you are a student of any age, your education is incomplete unless you have seen this film.

Works of Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Botticelli, Rapheal and others are used to illustrate the technical and artistic achievements of the Renaissance, but within a very contemporary context of how we see the world in reality or artificial illusion. This is about the discovery of how to make a two dimensional image appear in three dimensions through an understanding of light, shadow, color, and vanishing point perspective.

Seeing this film on low resolution VHS does not do justice to the quality of these master works. This film is a prime candidate for release on DVD. So, when will the world be able to learn from this extraordinary work in the detail and resolution only DVD can achieve?

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In Praise of "Masters of Illusion", January 18, 2002

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Margaret McDowell (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Masters of Illusion [VHS] (VHS Tape)

As a professor of Art Appreciation in Dallas, I have found this video to be a wonderful asset to my course. The narration and images serve to explain the invention and the subsequent history and adaptations of perspective in a very entertaining and colorful way. My students therefore are able to retain the knowledge much more easily.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is my art students favorite video!, July 3, 2000

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SUZANNE "zbarr" (MODESTO, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Masters of Illusion [VHS] (VHS Tape)

High school art students get bored easily, so I try and show only interestings videos to them and Masters of Illusion always holds their attention. This video starts with super special effects and goes on to explain how artists (even todays specialized graphic artists) use the principals of perspective. A video must for those teaching or interested in art!