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Baroque Reading Assignment

1. List 2 qualities that are similar in Renaissance and Baroque artwork.

Both have a chiaroscuro in their peices. Plus they both made steps toward realism.

1. List 2 qualities that make them different

Baroque has a very big intenisty to the art; where as, Renaissance has more of a drifting around and happened to be there look to it. 

1. How did the Counter Reformation influence Baroque art in Italy?

It attrachted people to must see things such as artictecture. It also brought new worshipers to churches giving the churches money to make the churches extravagant.

1. What is tenebrism? How is it different than chiaroscuro?

Tenebrism is having light figures emerging from a dark backround. It is diffrent because it highlights the item that the artist wants you to look at first. Chiaroscuro is making things 3d rather that a foucus.

1. How is Dutch Baroque art fundamentally different from Italian Baroque art? (hint: subject matter)

Art in Holland is diffrent because religios art was banned but Italian wasn't.

One Point Perspective Drawing

Why was 1 point perspective such an important artistic development during the Renaissance? 

It lead more perspective and realism to the art work. It allowed depth in the drawing making things look more like their real self.

What did it allow artists to do that they had not done before?

Before it was more focused on a heaven not earth. Artist were able to draw or paint what they were seeing and it had a more relistic sence about it.

Renaissance

Renaissance main location:

Italy

Key theme: Representing reality

Top Artistic Breakthrough: Oil painting, perspective, shadowing

Famous Early Renaissance Artist and Artwork: Donatello 

Famous High Renaissance Artist and Artwork: Leonardo da Vinci

Middle Ages

Greek Architecture

Corinthian architecture at the Fontana di Trevi in Rome 1732-1762

Looks Greek because of the contorpasto figures at the front. Plus it has columns on the building which is a common Greek style. 

The French National Assembly in France 1789-1791

It has the style of Greek architecture because of the colors and the triangle above the columns. Inside the triage are figures that are all going to one man in the middle which might be a god. 

Panathenaic Stadium in Athens made in 566 BC

It is made of marble a common stone that was used a lot with the Greeks. Plus it is an olymic stadium which was invented by the Greeks.

Burial Drawing

The bigger picture was when I got my first dog and he changed my nine-year-old life. The second picture is of me in my different stages of life because I would want that drawn next to my tomb to show the change of age. The third drawing is of hieroglyphs and that would be an explanation of the drawings and my life. I would want my grandmother's dolls and my grandfathers watches buried next to me. I would also want pictures of everyone in my family and maybe a couple of board games and a computer with Internet and wifi because I'll be stuck there for awhile.

Reading Guide: Mesopotamia and Eygipt

Mesopotamia: The Architects 

• Name 5 things the Sumerians invented. City state, formal religion, writing, math, law, and architecture.
• What were Mesopotamian cities centered around? The temple
• What is a ziggurat? Is a temple base
• Why were ziggurats built so high? To get to the shy gods
• Aside from architecture, what was the other predominant form of art in Mesopotamia? Bas-relief sculpture

Egypt: The Art of Immortality 

• Why is it not surprising that Egyptian art remained unchanged for 3,000 years? Because they had a formula to follow and they wanted it to be unchanged.
• For whom was most Egyptian art and architecture created? For the pharaoh
• Where does most surviving Egyptian art come from? 
• What is the ka? Belief that the eternal spirit needed a physical space to be held.
• What did Egyptians build to house the ka? Pyrimids
• Describe the rigid formula used to depict the figure. Arms are crossed across the body and hands are faces outwards. Feet were always sideways basically they wanted to show the parts of the body clearly.
• What were some materials used to make sculptures? Why did they choose these materials? Stone
• What is the largest stone structure in the world? The great Pyrimids of Cheops
• Why is King Tut so well known today despite being a fairly "unimportant" pharaoh? Because his tomb was never raided so it showed the real things put in untouched.

My Nomadic Sculpture

 I choose to do my sculpture like this because it has meaning. The four leaf clover is something that not only gives luck to us but is a sign of strength. We have clovers close to us when we have somthing dificult happening to us. I also would like purpose to it if I am carrying it around all day. So its purpose is to help defend or attack someone.

My Personal Definision of Art

My definision is that art can be anything you create or change. So if you take an object and change its normal position or color you made art. Also if you create something from other materials like paint and a canvas that is art. I feel that you have to change something about it other wise it isn't special.

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