viernes, 3 de junio de 2011
2.2 Mesopotamian art
Place between two rivers. Ancient Mesopotamia is considered to be the ancient civilization (if we think as writing as the first evidence in civilization´s birth). These group of people settled right between Tigris and Eufrates rivers.
Widely considered to be the craddle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires. n the Iron Age, it was controlled by Neo - Assyrian and Neo - Babylonian empires. The falling of this empire concluded when Alexander the Great in 332 BC turn it into part of the Greek empire.
To understand more about this culture it is important to know about their belifs. There is an interesting book named: Arte y mito: manual de iconografía
Mesopotamian religion was polytheist, that is people believed in many deities. These gods were represented anthropomorphically (human in form and character), but were superhuman in power and inmortal. Main gods were:
- Enlil: God of the air.A beneficient creator who ensures good harvests.
- Anu: Supreme god of the heavens.
- Enki: Gd of water, arts and crafts, and wisdom
- Ninhursag: The Greater Mother and Lady of the Mountain, goddess of the earth and Anu´s consort.
- Utu: Sun god, judge and protector
- Nanna: God of the moon
- Inanna: Goddess of fertility, love and war
- Nergal and Ereshkigal: Queen and king of the underworld, who rule from a lapiz lazuli palace with seven gates.
Look up for the information studied in class Mesopotamian art presentation
After getting all these information, answer the following:
- Do you consider as realistic the sculptures of Mesopotamia?
- Does the style of the sculptures tell you something about Mesopotamian society, their beliefs and culture?
martes, 31 de mayo de 2011
Unit 2.1 Prehistoric art
Key concepts: paleolithic art, mesolithic, neolithic art, sculpture, mural painting
Referring to prehistoric times, makes us be really precised in the definition of what Prehistory is. Prehistory refers to the time before people developed writing systems, therefore, before the existance of written documents.
Basically, the main evidences of artistic objects appeared on the period known as Stone Age. But this simple period lasted around 50,000 years b.c. So, historians have divided this large period in three main ages:
1. Paleolithic or Old Stone Age (50,000 - 8,000 b.c.)
2. Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age (8.000 - 6,000/4,000 b.c.)
3. Neolithic or New Stone Age (6,000 - 4,000 b.c)
It is important to remember that the knowledges we have from these eras, are based in the few evidences left, so many come from inferences made by scientists. In the early twentieth century, scholars rejected the idea of the nineteenth ones, they proposed that prehistoric cave paintings might be the conclusion of rites performed to enhance the fertility of the animals on which people dependend for food. In 1909, an anthropologist proposed that cave paintings were expressions of "sympathetic magic". He suggested that the painters may have thought that producing a picture of a bison lying down would ensure that hunters found the animal asleep and ready to be hunted. Read the following article and try to find at least three ideas that could be the origin of art production.
Let´s see how they imagine life could have been on those times:
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
Paleolithic cultures were nomadic, subsisting by hunting or gathering, and moving from plaxce to place in search of food. They made shelters in caves or tents made from animal skins. Fire have been discovered thousands of years before and although the invention of writing was still a long way off, there are some evidence that language had been developed. The expression media were mainly through painting and scultpture
Paleolithic Painting:
Two of the great evidences of the works that are also mentioned as the Sixtine Chapel of prehistoric times are Lascaux caves in France and Altamira Caves in Spain.The materials used in both are very similar and include basically animal fat and blood.
Take a tour to these extraordinary evidences by getting into the two webpages.
Paleolithic Sculpture.
Artists of the paleolithic produced a wide range of small sculptures made od ivory, bone, stone and limestone (kind of clay). Perhaps the most famous paleolithic sculptures are the ones known as the Venuses. The main example is the Venus of Willendorf from Austria, calculated to have around 30,000.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
This was a period of transition more important cultural and environmental changes that for its artistic legacy. The circumstances that surrounded this era made people to change their habits and activities. This was the time that followed the end of the ice Age, thus the animals that they used to hunt disappeared so people started to gather around ponds where fishing turned to be their main activity. Also these led to a partial settlement of small group starting the transition from nomadic life to settlement.
Neolithic or New Stone Age
As people adopted a settled, agricultural way of life, they needed formal shelters, so they began to build walls, storage spaces, and animal shelters. Also, the first tombs and monuments built from huge stones appeared in the Neolithic period. Many megalithic tombs are preserved throughout Europe. Three main ones are recognized: menhir, dolmen and cromlech.
The most famous of these monuments is Stonhenge in Salsbury plain in England. Take a tour to this marvelous place.
Also, you can review the contents of the presentation about Prehistoric art
After reviewing these materials, please make a contribution talking about the motivation that led prehistoric humans to leave this painting, and according to your answer why do you think they created this "style"
Referring to prehistoric times, makes us be really precised in the definition of what Prehistory is. Prehistory refers to the time before people developed writing systems, therefore, before the existance of written documents.
Basically, the main evidences of artistic objects appeared on the period known as Stone Age. But this simple period lasted around 50,000 years b.c. So, historians have divided this large period in three main ages:
1. Paleolithic or Old Stone Age (50,000 - 8,000 b.c.)
2. Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age (8.000 - 6,000/4,000 b.c.)
3. Neolithic or New Stone Age (6,000 - 4,000 b.c)
It is important to remember that the knowledges we have from these eras, are based in the few evidences left, so many come from inferences made by scientists. In the early twentieth century, scholars rejected the idea of the nineteenth ones, they proposed that prehistoric cave paintings might be the conclusion of rites performed to enhance the fertility of the animals on which people dependend for food. In 1909, an anthropologist proposed that cave paintings were expressions of "sympathetic magic". He suggested that the painters may have thought that producing a picture of a bison lying down would ensure that hunters found the animal asleep and ready to be hunted. Read the following article and try to find at least three ideas that could be the origin of art production.
Let´s see how they imagine life could have been on those times:
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
Paleolithic cultures were nomadic, subsisting by hunting or gathering, and moving from plaxce to place in search of food. They made shelters in caves or tents made from animal skins. Fire have been discovered thousands of years before and although the invention of writing was still a long way off, there are some evidence that language had been developed. The expression media were mainly through painting and scultpture
Paleolithic Painting:
Two of the great evidences of the works that are also mentioned as the Sixtine Chapel of prehistoric times are Lascaux caves in France and Altamira Caves in Spain.The materials used in both are very similar and include basically animal fat and blood.
Take a tour to these extraordinary evidences by getting into the two webpages.
Paleolithic Sculpture.
Artists of the paleolithic produced a wide range of small sculptures made od ivory, bone, stone and limestone (kind of clay). Perhaps the most famous paleolithic sculptures are the ones known as the Venuses. The main example is the Venus of Willendorf from Austria, calculated to have around 30,000.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
This was a period of transition more important cultural and environmental changes that for its artistic legacy. The circumstances that surrounded this era made people to change their habits and activities. This was the time that followed the end of the ice Age, thus the animals that they used to hunt disappeared so people started to gather around ponds where fishing turned to be their main activity. Also these led to a partial settlement of small group starting the transition from nomadic life to settlement.
Neolithic or New Stone Age
As people adopted a settled, agricultural way of life, they needed formal shelters, so they began to build walls, storage spaces, and animal shelters. Also, the first tombs and monuments built from huge stones appeared in the Neolithic period. Many megalithic tombs are preserved throughout Europe. Three main ones are recognized: menhir, dolmen and cromlech.
The most famous of these monuments is Stonhenge in Salsbury plain in England. Take a tour to this marvelous place.
Also, you can review the contents of the presentation about Prehistoric art
After reviewing these materials, please make a contribution talking about the motivation that led prehistoric humans to leave this painting, and according to your answer why do you think they created this "style"
Unit 1.2. Elements and principles of art
Key concepts: elements and principles, color, form
Basically, art history is focused on the visual arts: architecture, painting, sculpture and techniques as: collage, stained-glass, mosaics, pottery, between others. To understand the qualities of an object it is important to recognize the elements contained in a piece and the principles that the artist could follow to organize those elements.
Elements:
Style is considered as the combination of form and composition (elements and principles) that makes a work distinctive. According to Stokstad (2007) the most commonly used terms to discuss artistic styles include:
Stokstad, M (2007) Art, a brief history. New Jersey: Pearson Education
After looking at both videos and reading the information, please add your post, talking about which elements and principles you consider as more relevant to create a masterpiece, and which ones you think will be less important than the others.
Basically, art history is focused on the visual arts: architecture, painting, sculpture and techniques as: collage, stained-glass, mosaics, pottery, between others. To understand the qualities of an object it is important to recognize the elements contained in a piece and the principles that the artist could follow to organize those elements.
Elements:
- Line
- Shape
- Color
- Texture
- Space
Principles
- Balance
- Gradation
- Movement
- Proportion
- Rythm
Style is considered as the combination of form and composition (elements and principles) that makes a work distinctive. According to Stokstad (2007) the most commonly used terms to discuss artistic styles include:
- Period style. Referes to the carachteristics that distinguish a particular historical era.
- Regional style. Refers to stylistic traits that persist in a geographic region.
- Representational styles: are those that create recognizable subject matter. Realism, naturalism, abstract, linear and painterly are kind of representational styles.
- Realism and naturalism: describe the artist´s attempt to describe the observable world. Realism tries to be really accurate while naturalism implies a part of subject matter.
- Abstract: The artist starts from a realistic or natural objects and simplifies it capturing the essence of a form.
- Linear: in this style the artists uses line as the primary means of definition and modeling (creating of a 3D illusion).
- Painterly: describes a style of painting in which vigorous, evident brushstrokes dominate and shadows and highlights are brushed freely.
After looking at both videos and reading the information, please add your post, talking about which elements and principles you consider as more relevant to create a masterpiece, and which ones you think will be less important than the others.
lunes, 30 de mayo de 2011
Unit 1.1 Art basics
Key concepts: values of art, culture, definition
This is the beginning of our trip into the world of art. It is important to recognize the main carachteristics, purposes and reasons of humans to create the this things. This is the way we are going to evaluate the activities.
Unit 1.1 Art Basics. Slide share presentation
Periods
Exam 40
Workshop 20
Project 10
Homework 15
Class work 15
Final
Period's average 50
Exam 40
Final multidisciplinary project 10
Final multidisciplinary project 10
After considering the art´s
definition, purposes and reasons studied in class, look at the following
video and set your arguments to be on Sue Sheridan´s side or against
her explaining if you consider her work as artistical or not. Publish
your postss here
Welcome
Key concepts: art, culture, history
Welcome to this course about the history of art and culture throughout time. The objective of this course is to share information about the development of traditions and magnificent human creations related with world´s conceptions and knowledges.
I really hope we can enjoy and enrich this course with the knowledges and ideas we all have.
Welcome to this course about the history of art and culture throughout time. The objective of this course is to share information about the development of traditions and magnificent human creations related with world´s conceptions and knowledges.
I really hope we can enjoy and enrich this course with the knowledges and ideas we all have.
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