ART APP 2

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ART APPRECIATION

PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES,

DRAMAS

Elements of Sculpture 1. Subject

- Who/What is the subject of the sculpture?

2. Medium

What was used to make the sculpture?

Marble, wood, copper, granite Addition or substraction? Technique

3. Texture 4. Place

The Erotics of Art

Nude vs Naked by John Berger  The CLIENTS that bought the

he paintings were rich men  WOMEN were the subjects

(Nude women)

(“objectified”

 What was practiced during this period of time?

HEGEMONY

- The power of the rich and powerful men over the ones who could not afford to buy paintings or sculptures of naked women TIME FRAME 150,000 – Humans evolved 80,000 30,000 – Venus of Willandoff (Vienna, Austria)

What does the “ART” depict? 1. History

2. Culture

Ancient Art

 The very first sculpture was found in Northeast of Austria: HUNTER VALLEY in the Village of Willandoff

 Venus of Willandoff  Price: $60,000,000

 Modern world is dominated by unrealistic images of the human body

 Can be a symbol for Fertility/Motherhood

 Principle of Exaggeration  The Venus of Willandoff was

made during the NOMADIC LIFESTYLE

 Red, Limestone

 Over exaggeration of Parts Explanation of Professor Ramachandran

- The brain of the humans in relation to the seagulls

- Herringall Theory Eygptian Art

 Unrealistic images of the body  There was a SET form of art

(standards)

 19 feet tall, 2 feet wide, 1 ½ square of the center

 More detailed and

ORGANIZED

 Art did not change throughout time

 TWO DIMENSIONAL

 Signature of the Pharoah: Cartouche

Italian Art

 Stefano: Found 2 sculptures underwater

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Greek Art

 Realistic type of art: Depicting the human body

 KRITION BOY (TOO REALISTIC)

 Greeks used the eyes and focused on thee detail of the eyes

 Greeks were not satisfied with reality

 Greek Sculptures

 Small scale sculpture (small figurines)

 Greek Art adopted Egyptian Art SCULPTURES 1. Venus of Willendorf · Red · Vienna · Limestone 2. Venus of Lespugue · France · Mammoth ivory · 23, 000 BC 3. Female Figurine · Egypt · Bone · 3700 BC 4. Khephren · Protected by a hawk · Diorite · 2500 BC 5. Akhenaten · Long neck

· Unflattering accdg to experts · Egypt · Sandstone · 1350 BC 6. Nefertiti · Right profile · Limestone · Painted · Egypt · 1340 BC 7. Tutankhamun · King Tut

· The Boy King · Egypt

· Gold, glass, obsidian and quartz · Valley of the King

· Nese: Cloth on had of pharaoh · 1327 BC 8. Krition Boy · Marble · Greece · 480 BC 9. Riace Warrior · Bronze: molds · Greece · 450 BC

· clay – wax – clay – heat (wax melts – bronze 10. Greece: Disclobos “Distance thrower” · Myron · Marble · Greece · Symbol of sport · 450 BC

11. Asia: Kneeling Archer · Terracotta

· Archer · China

· 8000 Terracota Warriors

· constructed to protect the emperor · Life size

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· W/ bow and arrow Dynasties:

1. Sia

First dynasty of China 2. Shang 3. Zhou Warring dynasty - Confucious - Lao Tsu - Mi Tsu 4. Cin - United China

- Start of Great Wall of China - Kneeling Archer

- Terracotta Warriors were made for “protection” 5. Han 6. Sui 7. Tang 8. Song 9. Yuan 10. Ming

– end of Great Wall of China 11. Qing

12. Republic 13. Mao Zedong

12. Greece: Venus de Milo · Alexandros of Antioch Greece · Ideal body of a female · Epitome of female body · Marble

· No hands

· Seductive stature · 100 BC

· Medusa complex: if you see a person with disability, you are forced to look

13. Seated Couple · Mexico

· Teracotta · 50 AD

14. Stirrup Spouted Bottle

· Peru · Teracotta · 50 AD

15. Maitum Anthromorphic Jars · Teracotta · Philippines · 110 AD (1992) · Sarangani · Burial jars · National museum · Conservative Filipinos

16. Krishna Battling the Horse Demon

· Keshi · India · Teracotta · 440 AD

17. Buddha Preaching the law · Sandstone

· India · 485 AD

18. Cuevas los Amanos · Hand stencils

· Painting on walls of a cave · 1100s 19. Acrobatic Dancer · Paint on Limestone · Egypt · 1280 BC 20. Symposion Seene · Plaster · 475 BC

· “Symposion: = drinking spree · males

· rich houses

· Game: aim at the wall using chalice

· Seated on couches

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GREEK DRAMA

- Tragedy was more popular than Comedy

Thespis

 Father of theater  One character Sopochles

 Most famous playwright  Introduced the 3rd character  Oedipus cycle/Theban plays * Oedipus Rex

* Oedipus at Colonus * Antigone

Medias Res: begin at the middle OEDIPUS REX

Thebes

* Kingdom of Queen Jocasta and King Lauis

* Oracle with a prophecy

- Their child (Oedipus) will kill the king and marry the queen

Corinth

* Where shepherd brought wounded baby

* King Polybus and Queen Merope/Periboea

* Adopted Oedipus * Oracle with prophecy

 Oedipus left Corinth because of prophecy

 He killed his own father on an encounter in the forest

 Plague in Thebes * Riddles

* Sphinx (Due to the reason that the killer of King Lauis was not yet found)

 Oedipus Married Queen Jocasta (Oedipus Complex)

 Queen Jocasta hanged herself

 Oedipus gouged his eyes - because of foreseeing the

future, his life became miserable

Aeschylus

- Introduced the two characters

Agamemnon * Trojan war setting

* BUT really happened after Trojan war

* Cassandra

- Oracle (must be a virgin) - Mistress of Agamemnon Clytemnestra

- Agamemnon’s wife - Aegisthus (lover)

- Killed Agamemnon and Cassandra

- Because Agamemnon

sacrificed one of their daughters for the wind to be favorable

Euripides Electra

* Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra

* Killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus * Love for her father (Electra Complex)

Medea

* First play wherein character was not Greek

* Orient (from Asia) * Jason

 Greek

 Travelled to Asia

 Seduced and married Medea * Creon

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 King of Greece

 Asked Jason to marry his niece

 Jason remarried * Medea killed everyone Even her own children

To save them from the misery of living without a father

* Medea was sentenced to death Saved by the gods (Intervention) Deux ex machine

* god of the machine * chariot from heaven