art history 2009 class 2 lecture
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Slides accompanying Dick Nelson's art history seminar lecture on March 12, 2009.TRANSCRIPT
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Nature and Man In Art
• BELIEFS shape art.
• The GIVENS shape art.
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What does the painting tell us? Beliefs?Givens?
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The Significance Of Realitythrough the Law Of Frontality.
EGYPTIAN ART
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Post and Lintel Architecture
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Minoan Palace of KnossosCrete
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Minoan Fresco: Knossos
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Giant Pottery: Knossos
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Nature Inspired
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Mycenaean Gold Celature: The Vaphio Cup
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Mycenaean Celature Agamemnon
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Lion Gate: Mycenae
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Greek Geometric
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Greek Archaic Kouros Figures
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How would youpaint black figureson this empty surface?
What’s the Given
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Archaic Classic & Hellenistic
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Greek Classic
Idealized perfection
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Greek Architecture: Man imposes his will on nature
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Classic: Idealized - Poetic - Reason Hellenistic: Reality - Prose Passion
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Man as he is. Man as he would like to be.
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Archaic Greek
Classic Greek
Hellenistic Greek
From vertical inhibition tovertical/horizotal breakout.
The Arrested Walk
The IDEAL.
The Reality.
The measure of all things!Man
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Beliefs?Givens?
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What have we learned?This portrait is…l. Paleolithic 2. Egyptian3. Minoan. 4. Greek Classic4. Greek Hellenistic.
Its interpretation favors…1. The significance of reality.2. The appearance of reality.3. Classicism.4. Poetic stylization.
The work suggests a society inwhich… 1. Nature dominates.2. Man dominates.