1. This video was the required video.
2. The key concepts within this video were the way the history of art depicts human beings. When our ancient ancestors began creating images, they were able to tell the story of their world differed from our world today. The image of the human body dominates our every day life through pictures and film and within the world of art. The world's most popular and influential images of the human body don't actually resemble real human beings. "The Venus of Willendorf" statue that is hundreds of thousands years old was found by the Nomadic people and was only 10 centimeters high, small enough to be carried around. This lady is considered to be one of the first clues as to why the art form of the human body is so misconstrued. Her breasts, stomach, hips and thighs are all grotesquely huge. There are no arms and no face but was made deliberately with care and skill. There was some kind of reason for the exaggerations on parts of the figure's body. This idea continued throughout history in many types of art. A brain scientist, Professor Ramachandran, studies the clues to research why artist may have done this. He began to study this idea with seagulls and their chicks. As soon as the chicks were born, they tap their mother's beak for food. Scientists were convinced that the chicks were not aware that the beak was their mothers, but instead were stimulated by the red stripe on the beak. Scientists were able to test this idea by using a yellow stick with a red stripe on it and exposing it to baby chicks. Sure enough, the chicks tapped the stick. When scientists added more than one red stripe to the stick, the chicks were even more excited and tapped more vigorously. This idea connects with the early art of the human body. Artists exaggerated parts of the human body that they were stimulated by.
3. This video relates to the readings in the text because of all the pieces of human bodies we have read about. While I believe that the Greeks and Romans were known for highly idealizing the human body when creating statues and paintings, we can know understand some of the history of how this perception began. It is clear that earliest artists since the beginning of time have exaggerated the shape of the human body.
4. This video was really interesting, especially the study with the seagull chicks and how an exaggeration of a stimulus overexcited them. I thought this made a lot of sense in connection to "The Venus of Willendorf" sculpture and why the artist who carved her may have embellished some areas of the body while totally leaving out others. Society is filled with unrealistic images of human bodies and although I have always recognized this, I never thought too much into why or how it began. This video did a great job of going back so far into history to really find clues and similarities in different artists works through different cultures that really led to the fact that people have always created unrealistic images of the body. The type of society we live and the type of values that society has is the way we depict the ultimate idea of the perfect body.
Beyond the Classical: Byzantine and Later Greek Art
1. I chose this video because I thought it might connect to the Byzantium section in Chapter 15, which I found to be interesting and was curious to learn more about that Byzantine architecture.
2. The key concepts of this video were how the Greek Orthodox Church had a profound impact on the culture and art. The new religious stories provided new material to paint. It was during this time that the church encouraged the destruction of many of the classical Greek paintings and sculptures. They were moving on from the idealized figures of Zeus and the infamous gods and were now more interested in the Virgin Mary and patron Saints. Byzantine art had a great influence on modern contemporary art. The Byzantine art was carried on through later Greek Art in that it was combined with different influences to create pieces that were more modern for the Western world. These pieces kept the trend of centering the main focus of the piece. The Greek and Roman Empires provided artists with much inspiration as they were surrounded by the architecture and culture. The video explains the birth of Neoclassicism through visitors of the Greek and Roman ruins that wanted to attempt to rediscover the glories of Greece and bring that back to modern Europe. This is where we see connections between building such as the British Museum and the Greek Parthenon.
3. This video related to the text by showing a variety of examples of the Byzantine art and continuing the history of this time that wasn't elaborated on in the text. The text explains the icon type of art that was developed during the Byzantium where portraits or specific kinds of images of a sacred person were portrayed at a specific event. The video was able to expand on this idea by introducing the artists of this time and their work that fit this description.
4. The way this video really expanded on my understanding of Greek architecture and the Byzantine art was through the examples of different works. But I thoroughly enjoyed the explanations of Neoclassicism which I found to be very interesting. I really appreciated the idea of Neoclassicism being able to respect the past and bring it to the modern world without copying it.
2. The key concepts within this video were the way the history of art depicts human beings. When our ancient ancestors began creating images, they were able to tell the story of their world differed from our world today. The image of the human body dominates our every day life through pictures and film and within the world of art. The world's most popular and influential images of the human body don't actually resemble real human beings. "The Venus of Willendorf" statue that is hundreds of thousands years old was found by the Nomadic people and was only 10 centimeters high, small enough to be carried around. This lady is considered to be one of the first clues as to why the art form of the human body is so misconstrued. Her breasts, stomach, hips and thighs are all grotesquely huge. There are no arms and no face but was made deliberately with care and skill. There was some kind of reason for the exaggerations on parts of the figure's body. This idea continued throughout history in many types of art. A brain scientist, Professor Ramachandran, studies the clues to research why artist may have done this. He began to study this idea with seagulls and their chicks. As soon as the chicks were born, they tap their mother's beak for food. Scientists were convinced that the chicks were not aware that the beak was their mothers, but instead were stimulated by the red stripe on the beak. Scientists were able to test this idea by using a yellow stick with a red stripe on it and exposing it to baby chicks. Sure enough, the chicks tapped the stick. When scientists added more than one red stripe to the stick, the chicks were even more excited and tapped more vigorously. This idea connects with the early art of the human body. Artists exaggerated parts of the human body that they were stimulated by.
3. This video relates to the readings in the text because of all the pieces of human bodies we have read about. While I believe that the Greeks and Romans were known for highly idealizing the human body when creating statues and paintings, we can know understand some of the history of how this perception began. It is clear that earliest artists since the beginning of time have exaggerated the shape of the human body.
4. This video was really interesting, especially the study with the seagull chicks and how an exaggeration of a stimulus overexcited them. I thought this made a lot of sense in connection to "The Venus of Willendorf" sculpture and why the artist who carved her may have embellished some areas of the body while totally leaving out others. Society is filled with unrealistic images of human bodies and although I have always recognized this, I never thought too much into why or how it began. This video did a great job of going back so far into history to really find clues and similarities in different artists works through different cultures that really led to the fact that people have always created unrealistic images of the body. The type of society we live and the type of values that society has is the way we depict the ultimate idea of the perfect body.
Beyond the Classical: Byzantine and Later Greek Art
1. I chose this video because I thought it might connect to the Byzantium section in Chapter 15, which I found to be interesting and was curious to learn more about that Byzantine architecture.
2. The key concepts of this video were how the Greek Orthodox Church had a profound impact on the culture and art. The new religious stories provided new material to paint. It was during this time that the church encouraged the destruction of many of the classical Greek paintings and sculptures. They were moving on from the idealized figures of Zeus and the infamous gods and were now more interested in the Virgin Mary and patron Saints. Byzantine art had a great influence on modern contemporary art. The Byzantine art was carried on through later Greek Art in that it was combined with different influences to create pieces that were more modern for the Western world. These pieces kept the trend of centering the main focus of the piece. The Greek and Roman Empires provided artists with much inspiration as they were surrounded by the architecture and culture. The video explains the birth of Neoclassicism through visitors of the Greek and Roman ruins that wanted to attempt to rediscover the glories of Greece and bring that back to modern Europe. This is where we see connections between building such as the British Museum and the Greek Parthenon.
3. This video related to the text by showing a variety of examples of the Byzantine art and continuing the history of this time that wasn't elaborated on in the text. The text explains the icon type of art that was developed during the Byzantium where portraits or specific kinds of images of a sacred person were portrayed at a specific event. The video was able to expand on this idea by introducing the artists of this time and their work that fit this description.
4. The way this video really expanded on my understanding of Greek architecture and the Byzantine art was through the examples of different works. But I thoroughly enjoyed the explanations of Neoclassicism which I found to be very interesting. I really appreciated the idea of Neoclassicism being able to respect the past and bring it to the modern world without copying it.
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