art history
The Haggadah is a Jewish book that is read on the first night of Passover. It looks like a Christian manuscript because it was made in the fourteenth century around the time of the Christian Gothic art. They have longer bodies and more intricate details and the artist was influenced by the Christian art that was taking over Europe. Visually the Golden Haggadah and the Arena Chapel both have a lot of darker blue, more of a tan-gold color for the people and other details, and the people all have a similar "long and lean" look. Thematically they compare because they are both telling of religious stories.
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Giotto's stories show intricate and beautiful pictures of Christ and his life. His art was different from the other artists of his time, even though he worked closely with some of them. His work moves away from the strange and unrealistic looking humans that were painted. He put a huge amount of pressure on how realistic his paintings were. Giotto's style is very classic of the ear in what he painted, because it generally had to do with religion, but also more modern because he worked very hard to make his paintings look as real as they could.
For the ICA Project I would like to talk about form vs. function. How people physically engage in the building in the relic of a cathedral, just like art is the center piece of a gallery at the ICA. It would probably take me a few weeks to get everything together.
discuss 2 aspects of these religions that were new to you. What did you find interesting or likeable about Hinduism? How do you think your lives would be different if you were Buddhist? How would it change your everyday life? How would it change your schedule? Your goals? What you care about?
Things that were new to me while learning about the Hindu religion are: praying to 3 Gods and the concept of Dharma. I knew there were religions that worshiped multiple deities, but I had never actually learned about them or found out how the religion works. In world history we learned the basics about most religions, but I feel like my teachers did not go as deeply into them as we have in this class. I really liked learning about how they pray/worship and how their religion is different than the ones I am used to. Dharma is also a fairly new concept to me, again I had heard about it in history but, I had never really known what it meant. I like the idea of an individual holiness that is connected on a whole, I feel like that is really different from the religion I am used to (Catholicism) where the one God is much holier than everyone else and it's a refreshing concept (I hope I am getting the concept of Dharma right). I think that our lives would be very different if we were Buddhist. I know several people that are Buddhist, but I think they use the term very loosely. I think that the whole western world would we totally different because it is such a change from what we are used to here. Hinduism seemed like a very likable religion because it's based off the universe and worshiping multiple gods and nature. Neo-confusionism is is a moral, ethical, and metaphysical Chinese philosophy that was influenced by Confucianism, and originated with Han Yu and Li Ao in the Tang Dynasty.
Buddhism had a very large and lasting influence on Chinese culture. Neo-Confucionist people used Buddhism to help rebuild Confucian ethics. This painting reflects Neo-confucionism because the paintings of the large landscapes are an interpretation of Chinese philosophy. |
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