ART APPRECIATION

PAINTINGS,
SCULPTURES,
DRAMAS
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
The Erotics of Art
Nude vs Naked by John Berger

The CLIENTS that bought the

he paintings were rich men
WOMEN were the subjects
(Nude
women)
(objectified
What was practiced during
this period of time?
HEGEMONY
- The power of the rich and
powerful men over the ones
who could not afford to buy
paintings or sculptures of
naked women

Ancient Art
The very first sculpture was
found in Northeast of Austria:
HUNTER VALLEY in the
Village of Willandoff
Venus of Willandoff
Price: $60,000,000
Modern world is dominated by
unrealistic images of the
human body
Can be a symbol for
Fertility/Motherhood
Principle of Exaggeration
The Venus of Willandoff was
made during the NOMADIC
LIFESTYLE
Red, Limestone
Over exaggeration of Parts
Explanation
of
Professor
Ramachandran
- The brain of the humans in relation
to the seagulls
- Herringall Theory
Eygptian Art

TIME FRAME

150,000 Humans evolved

80,000
30,000 Venus of Willandoff
(Vienna, Austria)

What does the ART depict?

1. History
2. Culture

Unrealistic images of the body

There was a SET form of art
(standards)
19 feet tall, 2 feet wide, 1
square of the center
More
detailed
and
ORGANIZED
Art did not change throughout
time
TWO DIMENSIONAL
Signature of the Pharoah:
Cartouche

Italian Art
Stefano: Found 2 sculptures
underwater

 1350 BC
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

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 the emperor
Life size

 W/ bow and arrow

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
No hands
Seductive stature
100 BC
Medusa complex: if you see a
person with disability, you are
forced to look
13. Seated Couple
Mexico
Teracotta
50 AD
14. Stirrup Spouted Bottle

Peru
Teracotta
50 AD
15. Maitum Anthromorphic Jars
Teracotta
Philippines
110 AD (1992)
Sarangani
Burial jars
National museum
Conservative Filipinos
16. Krishna Battling the Horse
Demon
Keshi
India
Teracotta
440 AD
17. Buddha Preaching the law
Sandstone
India
485 AD
18. Cuevas los Amanos
Hand stencils
Painting on walls of a cave
1100s
19. Acrobatic Dancer
Paint on Limestone
Egypt
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
* Oracle with prophecy
Oedipus left Corinth because
of prophecy
He killed his own father on an
encounter in the forest
Plague in Thebes
* Riddles
* Sphinx (Due to the reason that the
killer of King Lauis was not yet
found)
Oedipus
Married
Queen
Jocasta (Oedipus Complex)

Queen
Jocasta
hanged
herself
Oedipus gouged his eyes
because of foreseeing the
future, his life became
miserable

Aeschylus
- Introduced
characters

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