Questions and Topics for Your Blog Posting:
1. Explain why you selected each of the three videos you choose from
the selection listed above.
We had to watch ‘More human than human’, and I chose:
‘Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany’ because information about the black death seemed to catch my attention because it is different, and I didn’t know it actually related to art at all.
And I chose ‘The Measure of All Things: Greek Art and the Human Figure’ because the description says “Greek art discarded religious functions and moved toward human-centered concerns. Views of Cycladic sculpture and Kouros statues demonstrate an evolving realism, leading to stunning examples of the idealized human figure: the Kritios boy, the Temple of Zeus pediments, Praxiteles’ Hermes, and others.”
We had to watch ‘More human than human’, and I chose:
‘Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany’ because information about the black death seemed to catch my attention because it is different, and I didn’t know it actually related to art at all.
And I chose ‘The Measure of All Things: Greek Art and the Human Figure’ because the description says “Greek art discarded religious functions and moved toward human-centered concerns. Views of Cycladic sculpture and Kouros statues demonstrate an evolving realism, leading to stunning examples of the idealized human figure: the Kritios boy, the Temple of Zeus pediments, Praxiteles’ Hermes, and others.”
2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
‘More human that human’- Why certain parts of the Venus sculpture are emphasized while others are dulled down such as the face and arms. The study on seagulls was interesting, how the baby chicks are stimulated by the red stripe on the beak, not their mother, or the beak, just the red stripe.
‘Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany’- I actually did not know that the bubonic plague was transported by fleas carried by rats. Also, it killed so many people because the population was already in a weakened state. Between 1/3 and ½ of the population died. All believed it was the end of the world.
‘The Measure of All Things: Greek Art and the Human Figure’, I learned that the combination of realism and idealism is what greatly represents classical art. Also how the obsession over the human body has something to do with the Olympic games that started in 776 B.C. where the male competitors were naked, and women were banned from the site.
‘More human that human’- Why certain parts of the Venus sculpture are emphasized while others are dulled down such as the face and arms. The study on seagulls was interesting, how the baby chicks are stimulated by the red stripe on the beak, not their mother, or the beak, just the red stripe.
‘Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany’- I actually did not know that the bubonic plague was transported by fleas carried by rats. Also, it killed so many people because the population was already in a weakened state. Between 1/3 and ½ of the population died. All believed it was the end of the world.
‘The Measure of All Things: Greek Art and the Human Figure’, I learned that the combination of realism and idealism is what greatly represents classical art. Also how the obsession over the human body has something to do with the Olympic games that started in 776 B.C. where the male competitors were naked, and women were banned from the site.
3. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
The videos relate to the text in the sense that they all describe different times in history involving religion and architecture. From Greece, Rome, Egypt to modern ideas in Europe in church architecture.
4. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to
understanding of the readings and art concepts?The videos relate to the text in the sense that they all describe different times in history involving religion and architecture. From Greece, Rome, Egypt to modern ideas in Europe in church architecture.
In ‘More human than human’ I really enjoy listening to the neuroscientist, Dr. Ramachandran who was shown in previous videos. His outlook on art is so different because he does not specialize in it. His opinions are so interesting because he incorporates a lot of science, and what the artists must have been thinking when they made certain pieces.
In ‘Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany’, made me think more about the tall city walls and how they did not keep the black plague out. They were designed for privacy, and it ended up forming a ghetto of death. Building homes, fountains and walls was common after the plague, the tabernacle was build to thank the virgin Mary for driving the plague away.
In The Measure of All Things: Greek Art and the Human Figure I liked in the beginning when they said the art of the human form cause an obsession of people working out and going to the gym, and looking at everyone else’s bodies. Sounds kind of like people today! (For different reasons of course, haha)
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