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Examples of Dances
Modern Dance
1. Dorie Duncan:
Modern Dance
2. Martha Graham
ART
Visual
Performing
Arts
Mother
of
Examples of Film
1. Food: Breakfast
Examples of Visual Arts
Examples of Sculptures
1. ACURUS:
Free
standing
sculpture: Youth
GREECE: Where the cult of the
young boy started
- Androginous
2. NUDE vs NAKED (Female
body)
Examples of Paintings
1. White
Center
or
Rockefeller
by
Mark
Rothko
Price: 72, 840, 000
- Abstract
painting
completed in the year
1950
- The painting was sold on
MAY 2007 by Sothebys
on behalf of David
Rockefeller
- Buyer: Royal family of
Qatar
- This painting set the
record as the most
expensive post-war work
of art sold at auction
2. Massacre of the Innocents
by Peter Paul Rubens
Price: 76,529,058
- Depicts
the
Massacre of the
3.
Innocents
at
Bethlehem
There
are
two
versions of the
painting
17th
century:
painting is part of
the collection of
Leichenstein
Collection
in
Vienna, Austria
1920: sold to an
Austrian family
1923: loaned to
Stift Reichersberg,
a monastery in
northern Austria
2001: Sothebys in
London
Buyer:
Kenneth
Thomson
Au Moulin de la Galette by
Piere- Auguste Renoir
Price: 78,100,000
- Dance
at
Le
Moulin
de
La
Galette
- Found
at
the
Musee dOrsay in
Paris
- Impressionist
painting
- 1879
to
1894:
Painting belonged
to
Gustave
Caillebotte
then belonged to
the
French
Republic
Monet is a French
Impressionist
June
2007:
Painting was sold
at the Sothebys
auction in London
One of the most
recognized
and
celebrated works
of the 20th century
and
is
hugely
influential to many
artists
Gallery
as
a
request by Adele
Currently
June
2006: painting was
bought by Ronald
Lauder for the
Neue Gallery in
New York City
The
painting
features
the
mistress of Pablo
Picasso:
MarieTherese Walter
Part
of
the
personal
collection of art
collectors Sidney
and
Frances
Brody
in
Los
Angeles
It is now in the
Tate Modern in
London
4. Place
-Where the artwork was
placed
PAINTINGS,
DRAMAS
SCULPTURES,
80,000
30,000 Venus
(Vienna, Austria)
of
Willandoff
Elements of Sculpture
1. Subject
- Who/What is the subject of the
sculpture?
2. Medium
What was used to make the
sculpture?
Marble, wood, copper, granite
Addition or substraction?
Technique
3. Texture
4. Place
ART
1. Prehistoric Art
2. Classical Art (Greece
Rome)
3. Medieval Art
4. Renaissance Art
TIME FRAME
150,000 Humans evolved
Art
did
not
change
throughout time
TWO DIMENSIONAL
Signature of the Pharoah:
Cartouche
Polykleitos: Dimensions of
Egyptian body
Italian Art
Stefano:
Found
sculptures underwater
Greek Art
Realistic
type
of
art:
Depicting the human body
KRITION
BOY
(TOO
REALISTIC)
Greeks used the eyes and
focused on thee detail of
the eyes
Greeks were not satisfied
with reality
Greek Sculptures
Small scale sculpture (small
figurines)
Greek Art adopted Egyptian
Art
SCULPTURES
1. Venus of Willendorf
Red
Vienna
Limestone
2. Venus of Lespugue
France
Mammoth ivory
23, 000 BC
3. Female Figurine
Egypt
Bone
3700 BC
4. Khephren
Protected by a hawk
Diorite
2500 BC
5. Akhenaten
Long neck
Unflattering accdg to experts
Egypt
Sandstone
1350 BC
6. Nefertiti
Right profile
Limestone
Painted
Egypt
1340 BC
7. Tutankhamun
King Tut
The Boy King
Egypt
Gold, glass, obsidian and quartz
Valley of the King
Nese: Cloth on had of pharaoh
1327 BC
8. Krition Boy
Marble
Greece
480 BC
9. Riace Warrior
Bronze: molds
Greece
450 BC
clay wax clay heat (wax
melts bronze
10. Greece: Disclobos
Distance thrower
Myron
Marble
Greece
Symbol of sport
450 BC
11. Asia: Kneeling Archer
Terracotta
Archer
China
8000 Terracota Warriors
constructed to protect
emperor
Life size
W/ bow and arrow
No hands
Seductive stature
100 BC
Medusa complex: if you see a
person with disability, you are
forced to look
the
Dynasties:
1. Sia
First dynasty of China
2. Shang
3. Zhou
Warring dynasty
- Confucious
- Lao Tsu
- Mi Tsu
4. Cin
- United China
- Start of Great Wall of China
- Kneeling Archer
- Terracotta Warriors were made
for protection
5. Han
6. Sui
7. Tang
8. Song
9. Yuan
10. Ming
end of Great Wall of China
11. Qing
12. Republic
13. Mao Zedong
12. Greece: Venus de Milo
Alexandros of Antioch Greece
Ideal body of a female
Epitome of female body
Marble
1280 BC
20. Symposion Seene
Plaster
475 BC
Symposion: = drinking spree
males
rich houses
Game: aim at the wall using
chalice
Seated on couches
Adolescent and adult couple
GREEK DRAMA
- Tragedy was more popular
than Comedy
Thespis
Father of theater
One character
Sopochles
Most famous playwright
Introduced
the
3rd
character
Oedipus cycle/Theban plays
* Oedipus Rex
* Oedipus at Colonus
* Antigone
Medias Res: begin at the middle
OEDIPUS REX
Thebes
* Kingdom of Queen Jocasta and
King Lauis
* Oracle with a prophecy
- Their child (Oedipus) will kill the
king and marry the queen
Corinth
*
Where
shepherd
brought
wounded baby
* King Polybus and Queen
Merope/Periboea
* Adopted Oedipus
the
two
Agamemnon
* Trojan war setting
* BUT really happened after Trojan
war
* Cassandra
- Oracle (must be a virgin)
- Mistress of Agamemnon
Clytemnestra
- Agamemnons wife
- Aegisthus (lover)
- Killed Agamemnon and
Cassandra
- Because
Agamemnon
sacrificed one of their
daughters for the wind to be
favorable
Euripides
Electra
* Daughter of Agamemnon and
Clytemnestra
*
Killed
Clytemnestra
and
Aegisthus
* Love for her father (Electra
Complex)
Medea
* First play wherein character was
not Greek
* Orient (from Asia)
* Jason
Greek
Travelled to Asia
Seduced
and
married
Medea
* Creon
King of Greece
Asked Jason to marry his
niece
Jason remarried
* Medea killed everyone
Even her own children
To save them from the misery of
living without a father
* Medea was sentenced to death
Saved by the gods (Intervention)
Deux ex machine
* god of the machine
* chariot from heaven
Roman Plays
Seneca
Actors were slaves
Violet
Emperors used plays for
their entertainment
MEDIEVAL AGE
Emperor Constantine
Moved the Roman Empire
from West to East
The Roman Empire was from
Italy
to
Constantinople:
Istanbul
Byzantine Period
Artists were unknown
Beginning of Icons
Theme: Remove the icons
from the realism of the world
and remove the mundance
things
NO round or free standing
sculptures
Renaissance Period
1. Space
2. Color
3. Detail
Rafael,
Michaelangelo,
Leonardo, Donatello
Donatello is a sculptor
Rafael back to Pagan
beliefs (back to classical
period)
Art Works
1. School of Athens
Plato and Aristotle
Rafael
2. Madonna on the Rocks
Leonardo
3. Mona Lisa
Leonardo
4. Madonna and Child
Rafael