art history
Joseph Niepce- Invented "a light sensitive surface " he was more focused on light and light sources. Eadweard Muybridge- Photographed animals and human movement. He also used his fast photography for science including how horses galloped and to study human motion. Alfred Stieglitz- Used his discomfort about his class and his wife to become a very influential photographer. "The whole scene fascinated me. I longed to escape from my surroundings and join these people..." he describes how it felt to take the photograph. He wanted photography to become a fine art like painting or writing. He like the relationship of shapes, and color and how each could play of the other. This is a photograph by Art Wolfe, it's one of my favorite photographs. I like it because the yellow flowers are such a good contrast for the purple sky. I also love the dark mountains in contrast of the light colored sky. The way the clouds are on one side and the flowers are on the other side bring your eyes from one side to the other. I love everything about this picture.
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Night Attack on Sanjo Palace
I ideal view of the Japanese soldier, according to this, is that they are strong and brave. The picture scrolls are usually meant to be viewed from right to left, they are best used for narratives. They show narratives by showing some of the more important people several times throughout, and they do the same thing for objects. The western art I would compare this to is Alexandar mosaic from the House of Faun because it is very big and it tells a story. It's also a fight scene which makes them even more similar. David Vases Porcelain is high temp. fired, white ceramics, and it is made from clay that is rich in kaolin. It was very important to China because it was one of the biggest exports for their country. These are typical of China in this time because they are mostly used for storage and being functional, but they are beautiful and very detailed. A piece of art that this reminds me of is the Niobides Krater because it was beautiful and very detailed, but also functional. Forbidden City The Forbidden City is laid out as a tiny city, that is isolated from the rest of Beijing by a moat. It's got over 98 buildings and palace compounds. These buildings show that the Chinese leaders were very private and wanted to have their lives remain as private as possible. This place is like the Great Stupa because it seems very private, but is still grand and beautiful. The Neo-classical and Romantic artists had a lot of compositional and emotional intents. One of the compositional tools used was the triangle, how Watson, the shark, and the man holding the dagger/harpoon. The triangle was used to draw the eye to the main subjects. Another compositional too is how the light sky contrasts the dark sea and the men all wearing dark clothes, although Watson is nude and his skin is very light and contrasts well with the darker blue of the sea. This painting is emotional because there is a man about to be attacked by a shark, and you can tell how the other men are trying to save Watson from the shark.
Master of Calamarca:
This painting is about a guy with a gun, he's supposed to be an archangel. It contradicts the traditions of indigenous cultures because angels are kind of a christian thing, so that seems to go against the indigenous cultures. I think that this is pretty interesting because of how this guy is dressed, he looks like royalty--but not like an angel. It's also contradicting that he has the angel wings but is holding a gun. Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and Hunting Scene: It looks like in this painting there is a fight going on, like they are storming a town. I guess it's about a battle of some sort. I think it blends with the indigenous culture because the screen thing was more common back then. I think the way the people and animals in this painting are shown, they look very interesting and different. Virgin of Guadalupe: The subject of this piece of art is the Virgin Mary, also know as the Virgin of Guadalupe. The artwork is kind of contradictory because the Spanish people who came to colonize brought their style of art over. I think that this piece is interesting because even thought the style is pretty different from what I was expecting I still knew exactly who it was before I even read the name. It's one of those things that you can usually recognize her, because of the shroud, and the blue, and her praying hands. Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo: It appears that the subject of this piece of art is some people reading over something. It's two women and a very short man, possibly he's on his knees, they seem to be looking at something important. It seems to be a traditional looking painting, but it also seems to have a more Spanish look to it. I think it's interesting that it can have both cultures influencing this painting. -I think that we are seeing so many more portraits being painted because the artist have become much better at drawing/painting people they have worked on proportion and the golden ratio
-They have also learned more about the human body in a scientific way--thanks to Leonardo Da Vinci -There were also a lot more rich people to commission paintings of themselves Albrecht Durer was very influenced by the perfect human form and the system of proportion and measurements that were very big during the Renaissance. Some medieval aspects of the print are how small the animals in the background are in comparison with Adam and Eve, they seem to be out of proportion of everything else. I think he perfected this skill because it made him very unique as an artist. He was one of the best because he was also scientific about it like Leonardo Da Vinci.
I think that as an artist Leonardo Da Vinci cared the most about realism and perfection the most. A lot of the time he was doing art was for science, so he wanted it to look as realistic as possible. He created the modern science illustration, and so he probably wanted it to be as perfect as it could be. He was very detailed oriented, like when he dissected dead people, he wanted to be able to draw them as correctly as possible.
The wall was originally a royal residence for the king, and it remains in its original state today. The site of rituals and cemeteries. The Great Enclosure was either the queens residence or a temple.
They were organized because the great enclosure is made of rocks that are all the same size and stacked up from the ground and it was built entirely out of curves, no lines or straight angles. Masonry techniques at the time were highly developed and organized. The people that still love here continue to recount their history through song. The Bantu are not always literate in their mother tongue. They used places of worship, and these stone buildings are assume to be used as houses of worship. The Great Mosque of Djenne shows that there are a lot of cultures in this region of Africa, and they are very proud of their culture and history. But sometimes maybe too much so because they will not let current residents change anything so they don't loose their history. This shows how much they care about their "religion" and having a place to worship. Shona People- Located in the great Zimbabwe and started building in the 11th century and ended about 1450 AD, a large center for trading. They farmed millet, sorghum, corn (a staple of their culture), rice, beans, peanuts, and sweet potatoes. They also kept cattle for milk but they were mostly used for barter and to show status. The art they did included ironwork, pottery, and music. They believe in a creator-god Mwari.
Benin Empire- 13th–19th century, starting in the 13th century Prince Oranmiyan of Ife took over rule, they were mostly dependent on agriculture. They produced yams, cassava, corn, millet, beans, and rice and livestock was cattle, sheep and goats, pigs, horses, and poultry. Art included sculptures and ritual objects cast of bronze and carved of ivory. Mali Empire-13th-16th century, were a part of the later gold trade in Ghana, they had chiefs as their rulers, towards the later years it gain political and military strength. Their art was mostly spiritual, but also used for rituals and everyday activities. Asante People- 17th century, they mostly farm plantain, bananas, cassava, yams, and cocoyams for the local area and cacao for exporting. They are a matrilineage people and they a queen mother and a chief. Their art had a lot of gold because they were on the gold coast. Kuba People- 17th-19th century, they farm corn, cassava, millet, peanuts, and beans to be used locally, they grow raffia and oil palms, raise corn to export, and they also hunt and fish. They are a united kingdom ruled by a central Bushongo group. Nature spirits, the spirits of dead kings, and witchcraft are their main religious focuses. Their art used a lot of raffia, and woven textiles and fiber, and lots of beads. They make lots monumental, ornate helmet masks which they are mostly known for. |
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