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. The design of St. Foy shows that it was a pilgrimage spot because it's an abbey, so that means there was a monastery there, and also because other churches along that route were very similar to this church. Relics were used to prey to, because people thought that they had special powers because they were usually related to God and religion. One of the symbolic attributes is the tall walls, which is from the "race" that everyone was having to have built the tallest church. Also the fact that the nave and the transept meet and intersect, so from above it looks like a cross.
China is medium in size, mountainous, and also has some deserts. They have a highly literate society, they greatly valued poetry, calligraphy, and painting—also known as the three perfections. Imperial China produced many technological advances including: paper and porcelain. Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism were the main religions of the time of imperial China. Qin Shihuang (259-210 BCE) (of the Qin Dynasty) had a tomb built for himself. It was a huge, underground tomb, guarded by life sized warriors made of terra cotta. These terra cotta men included: warriors, infantry men, horses, chariots, and all their attendant armor and weaponry. These some 7,000 men were originally painted. The army found in the 1st emperor’s burial complex is a remarkable discovery, of the things found there were: gardens, stables, bronze ritual vessels, jade jewelry, and a wealth of gold and silver ornaments. Qin Shihuang was an ancient astronomer.
I think that these sculptures of Buddha were so wonderful. I love that they were inside the mountain and that the monks used to like in caves around the sculptures. It's so nice to see how much they put into their religion you could tell how hard they worked on them. As for the tearing down of these statues, I think that it's incredibly sad that they would destroy such wonderful pieces of art, and not only that but how hard they worked to destroy it. I think that there should be something in place to protect artifacts and ancient art, but because things like this are so large and so public it's hard to figure out exactly what to do. And because the scale of the destruction was so large, it probably would've ended up getting through anything that had been put in place.
It was really interesting to learn about the terracotta warriors last night, but today in class we talked about the terracotta daughters, which might be my new favorite thing. Prune Nourry is doing this wonderful project of making the terracotta warriors into girls!!! I absolutely love this, I think it's really important to emphasize the importance of women in China because they used to be so unwanted. People would give up girl babies for adoption or even kill them, which is crazy to me because women are an integral party of society. I mean there are way more men in china than women because of all that and I think it's really wonderful that she is bringing light to this with the terracotta daughters.
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