art history 2009 class 2 lecture

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.