art history 2009 class 2 lecture
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Slides accompanying Dick Nelson's art history seminar lecture on March 12, 2009.TRANSCRIPT
Nature and Man In Art
• BELIEFS shape art.
• The GIVENS shape art.
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What does the painting tell us? Beliefs?Givens?
The Significance Of Realitythrough the Law Of Frontality.
EGYPTIAN ART
Post and Lintel Architecture
Minoan Palace of KnossosCrete
Minoan Fresco: Knossos
Giant Pottery: Knossos
Nature Inspired
Mycenaean Gold Celature: The Vaphio Cup
Mycenaean Celature Agamemnon
Lion Gate: Mycenae
Greek Geometric
Greek Archaic Kouros Figures
How would youpaint black figureson this empty surface?
What’s the Given
Archaic Classic & Hellenistic
Greek Classic
Idealized perfection
Greek Architecture: Man imposes his will on nature
Classic: Idealized - Poetic - Reason Hellenistic: Reality - Prose Passion
Man as he is. Man as he would like to be.
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
Beliefs?Givens?
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.