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For the final project I chose the Great Sphinx.
Paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9SXJG0ftaqouvmHyAb6bqNMPGxxN7GifzHGW_oXgK4/edit?usp=sharing
Slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZFBQHQb3IIeEgdXeKXE-oB9khwiBqW3hZ9PMEh5PwgM/edit?usp=sharingLaura,
Your recreation of the Venus of Willendorf is the best thing I have seen all week. So creative and refreshing! I personally like the way it turned out! I enjoyed reading your paper and the process you had to go through in creating this piece. Amazing job!While looking through the Roman art pieces, I noticed that a lot of these pieces portrayed a sense of power, justice, and fanciness. For example, when looking at the Augustus of Primaporta, you see a tall, strong man with a nice robe and what looks like armor. These pieces have a lot in common with characters in the videogames of today and movies. Entertainment companies use characters like these in order to attract people to watch their movie or play their certain game. For example, movies like Iron man, thor, captain America and videogames like call of duty, battlefield, and Halo. each one with distinctive characters like Augustus.
One piece of Roman art that has a lot to do with the modern art of today is the Colosseum! We have so many modernized colosseums being used for things like football, basketball, soccer, and all sorts of sports! If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Also In Roman culture, they build things like statues and monuments for people who deserved to be honored like the Colossus of Constantine. in our current society, we do a lot of that. For example, we have the MLK statue and we have the statue of liberty.
Lucas,
I found it to be really interesting how they thought of a men and women socializing together was seen as offensive behavior. Yet they still had a vast amount of men and women socializing and defying that social standard. The women in this time period really do have more of a privileged status and freedom. With glimpses of their fashion and comparing how the women and men both dressed you can see that it looked like women carried themselves a lot more.Compared to what we have seen with the other cultures we have studied its as if the role of the women has become equal if not more respected in the art work. For example int eh Cerveteri Sarcophagus it is a sculpture of a husband an wife lounging on a a dinning couch. The wife is leaning against her husband and you can instantly see the happiness on both their faces and their hair is well done. As you step back and look closer at the wife you can see that she is well dressed and has nice pointed shoes on which helps depict the fashion of the women in the Etruscan time period. Where as when you gave upon the husband you see he is barefoot and has what looks like he has clothing that may not be as elegant as his wife’s. It also shows that he is barefoot, I think this shows some symbolic meaning of how much he cherished his wife and wanted the best he could give her in my opinion.
Kaitlyn,
I agree the Hellenistic period was immensely more detailed of that of the human body than it was in the classical period. The emotion was captured so well its almost like a picture perfect moment except with sculptures. The Laocoon’s details to the face made it to were it was as if you can really understand and see what they could have been going through at the time. It makes it easier to relate the humanistic appeal to the piece when there is so much emotion being depicted withing the art. Amazing job!In my opinion I feel that both sides of the arguments can be seen as progression in the Hellenistic art era. Compared to most of the work in the Ancient Greek period we start to see more details and and facial features as well as the meaning behind the creation of the piece. For example the, ‘Sleeping Eros’ sculpture is of a young boy sleeping. They gave the some information about how he was a companion of Venus he became known as cupid because he could be both young and beautiful. You see that in the sculpture of the Sleeping Eros because when you look at it they were able to capture the humanistic features of what could be seen as a beautiful young boy. Even though he had wings and that could be seen as supernatural it still weighed more on the realism of the boy and the structure of his face and body in my opinion. Not to mention the calm feeling you get as you see him laying there peacefully sleeping.
Re: Tomara toy
I agree with your last statement. the people of today definitely idolize and try to become these unrealistic human forms to the point of painful body enhancements and body readjustments to match up with the “standards” of our society. the same goes for the classical Greece era where these sculptures were supposedly how man and women were supposed to look like.
if you look at the art of today, a lot of it tends to be very abstract and creative. Some artists use sand and dirt to make their artwork while others use spray paint and watercolors to do theirs. In our society, many people have come up with so many different ways to portray artwork and each time it just gets more and more creative. As for the artwork in the Classical period, a lot of it had to do with the human body and were so detailed that it looked like the piece would come to life. Over time, art changes and has different meanings and forms based on what’s going on in the world today. this goes for both the past and the present. the classical Greek art pieces changing by adding more detail and finesse to their pieces while our timelines art pieces change based on occurrences in the world.
Re: tmbergan
Well done backing up the question with strong examples using the articles provided. I like how you noticed that the Hellenistic art showed more diversity from infants to older women while classical Greek art only portrayed young adults in their art pieces. I didn’t really catch that while looking through the articles so good eye.
Classical Greek art focused a lot on the body of man and women. each sculpture has incredibly high detail and looks so human-like. Notice how most of the human-like sculptures were nude, this may be due to the greeks fascination of the human body. As for Hellenistic art, they too made a lot of human-like sculptures but when you look at them closely its as if each one is telling a story of something that happened back in their times.
RDNELSON4:
I completely agree with the fact that it is the responsibility of the country or agency to preserve the artifacts in order for the world to see them. They are often a few piece of art work as you stated that just end up damaged or destroyed because people aren’t taking the proper measurements to make sure they artifacts are preserved in the state they were originally found in. So the world loses beautiful pieces because of someones lack for knowledge.
I personally believe that artifacts shouldn’t belong to anyone, rather they should stay in the country or region that they were found in or be sent to where it had originated if known. That way the art piece gets to stay within the area of which it was made. It is a whole different story if the artist sold their art piece and it ends up wherever it goes, then that person owns it in the sense of a possession. For example vase of Exekias Amphora with Ajax and Achilles playing a games is placed in a museum where it is being preserved, however, they managed to obtain the artifact doesn’t mean they own the past or the creation of it. They own it as a piece they get to show off to the individuals who want to gaze at Ancient Greece masterpieces. As they gaze they know in their minds that the artifact isn’t something that can be claimed as the museums own. They have it to show the world where it originated and who possibly created it.
Maggie,
I also found the demigod nature to be really fascinating when it came to it came to Ajax and Achilles playing the game. It showed how even during battle of Troy that they were able to have a civil moment to have some time to themselves. Even after when Achilles was killed, Ajax carried his best friend off the battle field. It was amazing to read about how demigods showed their emotions.
