1. Venus of Willendorf Paleolithic ca 28,000-25,000 BC Anatomical Exaggeration Fertility Image

2. Menkaure and Khamernebty Gizeh, Egypt Ca. 2490-2472 BC Ideal Proportions No sign of affection or emotion Carved from a block Obsessed with permenance 3. Kouros and Kore Ancient Greece Funerary Purposes Rigidly frontal Left foot forward, arms held at side, fists clenched, thumbs forward Liberated from block 4. Kritios Boy Greece 480 BC Interested in how the body naturally stands Contrapposto (Counter Balance) 5. Contrapposto 6. The Quest for the Ideal Form Myron Diskobolos (Discuss Thrower) 450 BC Greece Obsessed with Movement 7. Polykletos Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) Greece Embodiment of ideal male form Chiastic (Cross Balance) 8. Aphrodite of Knidos and Venus de Milo Praxiteles Alexandros of Antioch-on-the- Meander 150-125 BC Tease 9. Mythology by Virgil Laocoon and Sons 10. India Seated Buddha Preaching First Sermon Ca. 500 Inspired by Greeks Softened Build 11. Renaissance Primavera (Birth of Venus) Sandro Botticelli 1482 Lightness- moves without effort 12. Foreshortening Dead Christ Andrea Mantegna Ca 1501 13. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Flemish Baroque Painter Emphasized movement, color, an d sensuality Full-Bodied Women- Rubenesque 14. Mannerism Artifice- emphasis on staged, contrived imagery Elegance and Beauty Not derived from nature Imbalanced Complex Restlessness, distortions, exaggerations Invention of human Idealized fantasy form Perfection and polish 15. Bronzino Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (The Exposure of Luxury) Ca. 1546 16. Neo-Classical Ingres Le Grand Odalisque Combining the Ideal with the Exotic 17. Impressionist Paul Gauguin Where do we come from 1897 18. Art Nouveau (Modern) Gustave Klimt The Kiss 1907 19. Les Demoiselles dAvignon Pablo Picasso 1907 Painted the planes of the body at different angles, all at once I paint forms as I think them, not as I see them. 20. Synthetic Cubist Pablo Picasso Three Musicians 1921 21. Capturing the Sensation of Motion Umberto Boccioni Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1931 22. Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase 1912 23. The Figure in Art is an Invention It is up to OUR perception to determine the ideal form, and how we represent it http://blog.ted.com/2013/01/16/model- cameron-russell-gives-the-real-story-behind- six-of-her-stunning-photos/ 24. HOMEWORK Find images which use CONTRAPPOSTO Find images which use FORESHORTENING Find images in magazines which you would consider to be contemporary MANNERISM (invention of human idealized fantasy form, perfectionism, polished, elegance and beauty that is not derived from nature, complex, unstable) Cut them out and bring them to class