Module 8

1.Explain why you selected the video you choose from the selection listed above. I chose to watch The Greek Awakening because I love Greek mythological stories and the artwork that represents such stories and the different Gods/Goddesses the Greeks believe in. 2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned. The Greek Awakening: -in art dismembered figures meant in a realistic way -suddenly the statues become human gods -visible sign of new self confidence in architecture –example of acropolis -took a city of wood and turned it into a city of marble -distilled perfection in the columns still standing -to make the columns seem perfect actually buldge a little in the middle, compensation to make the art looks straight - since 1975 the Parthenon has been undergoing huge preservation work. (marble) -mixing ancient fragments with newly sculpted sections -human beings are at the center of existence - partheon represents that humanist movement -a temple a church and a mosk -6th century sculptures – attack by Persians - there was a temple before the Parthenon -north side of freeze consisted of 60 horseman -art at this time was consisted of craft and skill -craftsman be a free born citizen or a slave. - sculptures are saved from the plagued pollution of modern day Athens in museums -athena and poeidon in the corners of the pedimont (disputes figure pointing and emotions) -east pedimont filled with sculptures show the birth of Athena -invented theatre and dramas -birth of greek trajedy and comedy -think of it as potilics -talk to the city about the city during thetre was politics -first to develop humans paintings and architecture of humans in a realistic way Documentary - images dominate our lives: tell us how to behave, what to think, how to feel, mold and define us, - -images of the body that are unrealistic - the venus of vilindorf 25,000 yrs old unrealistic body of a woman - seguils can explain the shape of the venus (behavior of the chicks) - -the hunter gatherers exaggerated what mattered most - fatness would have been highly desirable - -Egyptian pyramids aret - not unrelisitic eggagerated images of body figures- just to be about the right size of actual body form - -use the body image that’s most clearest (angle) - measure using a grid applying same grid to images all over Egypt - images were shared by an obsession with consistency and value - its alos seen in their buildings/ pyramids - designed with absolute persission - –permanance and order - egypts images they wanted to last forever while nomads made statues to carry with them where ever - Ancient greeks were fixated on the body - Perfect body was an athletic body - They believed that gods took human form and had beautiful bodies - The mor eimpresive you can make you own body the more of a god you are perceived to be - Figurines were as close to life like and life size as they could get - Worsherpers would think the life like sculptures were actually gods and goddesses - Most rapid artistic revolution of all man kind - Greek and Egyptican ideas were being exchanged - Egypts rigid styles didn’t satisfy the greeks, the greeks like realistic statues - Studied the human body - Critian boy a mildstone in art carved from marble. Seen as too realistic, it was boring. - Capture an athletic body used rods at points where the body is ready to move, and split the body in half and across the middle- began to move figure in specific ways. One side of body in motion one side at rest - Top and bottom have been exaggerated by muscle –impossible for an actual person or athlete took look like the realistic sculpture - Impressionist exaggerated light and color rather then shape 3. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text? In the book, it discusses about the little figure woman founded in Willendorf. Numerous Paleolithic female statuettes were found across the region carved of wood, ivory, and stone or modeled clay. These statues were assumed to be fertility figures used in a symbloc way encouraging pregnancy and childbirth. Egyptian paintings show similar works as stone. The body is stylized: head, eyes, torso and legs are each shown from the most advantageous viewpoint. In Greece, sculpture, painting and architecture were discussed as techne roughly “ things requiring a special body of knowledge and skill to make”. Greek art eveolved toward naturalistic representation. The bronze warrior an idealized, virile male body stands in a relaxed yet vigilant contrapposto- the pose the Greeks invented to express the potential for motion inherent in a standing human. Bronze was the favored material for freestanding sculptures. 4. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts? I enjoyed the film the Great awakening of Greece, it gave good history on the art of ancient Greece however I personally was excited to see more sculpture and the techniques they used to develop these sculptures. I think the architecture of the stadium and the acropolis and Parthenon architecture was interesting because we now use these techniques of architecture all around the world. I really enjoyed the documentary on how realism of sculptures has advanced since ancient times in different locations. Shows how important and hard the technique of realism is to actually capture and how the human body is history has always felt connected with the imperfect/unrealistic exaggerated version of the body.