An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance (Giorgio Vasari)
- Vasari wrote, “Lives of the Artist’s”, and it acted as a culmination of famous artists and their work throughout the years.
- This allowed new artists to learn from artists that had already mastered many different styles of art.
- Barbarians destroyed a lot of artwork, which made it even more necessary to document paintings and sculptures from there on out.
- Perspective makes more distant objects seem farther away.
- Giotto used landscaping and architecture to add depth to paintings.
- Older works also influenced Giberti. He was able to reproduce the human figure very accurately.
- “David”, done by Donatello: “David’s” stance in the sculpture is called, “Contrapposto” due to its natural postioning.
- Da Vinci added science and math into the mix when creating art. He needed to see things from the inside out in order to recreate them. The human form needed to appear naturally in the surroundings.
- Raffaello made sure his painting were never too crowds or lopsided. He created balance.
- Michaelangelo taught himself at fourteen how to paint and sculpt by studying the work of others.
The Colonial Encounter: Views of Non-Western Art and Culture
1. The largest fair was in 1900 in Paris. They celebrated friendship.
2. The Dahome exhibit consisted of mud structures to enforce African culture.
3. Violence eventually broke out civilizations became fearful. The barbaric people were banned from Europe.
4. Dahome’s independence was shown through the portrayal of sharks. It represented determination to protect the water surrounding their land.
5. By the 1900s tourism was on its way to become a major industry, which then led to building hotels to support travelers.
6. Suddenly the exploitation of African men and women began taking place. They would display measurement of private parts and had them caged up as if it were an exhibit.
7. The French took action and helped to prevent or at least minimize such pornography from taking place.
The Critics: Stories from the Inside Pages
1. Good critics give you another way of looking at things.
2. Steven Hunter believes that through writing we are able to evoke the imagination of others.
3. The main function of critics is to help the consumers get the most out of the money that they spend.
4. Because of critics the authors, directors, artists, actors have to keep on their toes knowing that they are being rated in the media for millions to see.
5. The more credit critics receive, the greater their credentials, and the more we’ll listen.
6. Book critics are the most influential in their ability to help out new writers.
8. Theirs an academic perspective to critics.
9. Sometimes critics are called on to interview artists and they become that of a reporter too.
10. This can breed subjective criticism.
11. There is no real way to place accuracy on just one opinion but when others share similar views or when a critic becomes popular, people almost rely on their opinion when deciding whether to see/read something or not.
The videos definitely help in a couple of ways. Criticism, although it made be criticism, it should be constructive. How someone determines what is constructive is where it may become controversial but people that get into the business of entertaining others have to get used to scrutiny. Not everyone is going to like, understand, or appreciate everything they do. Feedback is a huge part of finding out what viewers want and what others are doing that is or isn’t successful. Obviously critiquing our classmates is on a much different level but if someone asked me to critique their sketches that they were going to submit forward somewhere I would take that into greater consideration.
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