Gerhard Richter Painting (documentary, 2011)

Guess who

Portal? Portal...what's a Portal.

Follow the metamorphosis of architectural engineering...from

POST and LINTEL
CORBELLED WALLS
RELIEVING TRIANGLES
CEMENT
ARCHES
DOMES
COFFERED CEILINGS
BASILICAS
CENTRAL PLANNED STRUCTURES
PENDENTIVES
SQUINCES

Follow the development of painting...from

THE FOUR STYLES OF ROMAN MURALS
PORTRAITS IN ENCAUSTIC FROM THE FAYUM REGION
ATMOSPHERIC/ARIEL PERSPECTIVE
STYLIZATION VS NATURALISM
ICONS/IKONA
VENERATION VS ADORATION
"To pray through not to"
HIERATIC
ILLUSION THAT RE-ENFORCES THE FLATNESS OF THE PICTURE PLANE

Some terms to travel artstor with-
Byzantine icon
iconastasis (sacred image wall)
Ravenna
Hagia Sophia
Mount Athos
Saint Catherines MonastaryByzantine mosaics
Byzantine reliquaries
Andre Rublev
Theophanes

Islamic Art vocabulary...


MIHRAB:

QIBLA:

IMAM:

MINBAR:

MAQSURA:

MINARET:

HYPOSTYLE HALLS:

MOSQUE:translation-

REMINDER-DISCUSSION GROUP IS MEETING TUESDAY (2/19) RIGHT AFTER SCHOOL IN ROOM 172!  BYOF!!!!!

(BringYourOwnFood) Topics will include a review of Gothic and preview of late Gothic through the "arrival on the scene" of GIOTTO

Face Of The Day

Face Of The Day

Feb 10 2013 @ 6:49pm

Julia Sklar marvels at a very old visage:

Twenty-six thousand years ago in the Czech Republic, one of our ice-age ancestors selected a hunk of mammoth ivory and carved this enigmatic portrait of a woman – the oldest ever found. By looking at artefacts like this as works of art, rather than archaeological finds, a new exhibition at the British Museum in London hopes to help us see them and their creators with new eyes. Human ancestors date back millions of years, but the earliest evidence of the human mind producing symbolic imagery as a form of creative expression cannot be much older than 100,000 years. That evidence comes from Africa: this exhibition explores the later dawning of representative art in Europe and shows that even before the remarkable paintings of the Lascaux cave, France, humans were able to make work as subtle as the expressive face above.

(Image: The oldest known portrait of a woman sculpted from mammoth ivory found at Dolní Věstonice, Moravia, Czech Republic. c.26,000 years old. Height 4.8 cm. Courtesy of the Moravian Museum, Anthropos Institute)

Just came across these

  [The Calf-Bearer and the Kritios Boy Shortly After Exhumation on the Acropolis]

    ca. 1865

    Albumen silver print from glass negative

    Unknown

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Samurai Dog Armour

    “This suit of dog armour — identified by antique Japanese armour dealer Toraba.Com as the only known and certified authentic example of its kind — is believed to have been created for the pet of a wealthy, high-ranking and presumably eccentric samurai or daimyo (feudal lord) in the mid to late Edo period (mid-18th to mid-19th century). Although the carved wooden helmet and coat of black-lacquered scale mail would have provided effective protection against enemy attack, evidence suggests the canine never wore the armour into battle. More likely, the suit served as a decorative costume for parades and other formal ceremonial occasions. The samurai dog armour now belongs to an unnamed UK museum.”

 Terracotta figure holding an infant

    1450-1200 BC

    Late Cypriot II Culture

    via: The British Museum)