I have two pigeons who always stops by my balcony. during the snow
storm they would huddle togather for warmth! they are so cute! I’m still
trying to name them! here are some sketches I have made during and after the
snow storm!
Monday, February 18, 2013
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
ESSAY #3a ESSAY TITLE: This and That. redo.
The Great temple of Amin at Karnak-middle kingdom-12th-22nd Dynasties) 
Romans Pantheon temple-126 AD)
ESSAY #3a
ESSAY TITLE: This and That
QUESTION: How are Egyptian, Greek and Roman art and architecture both interconnected and yet independent and; how did they collectively or independently affect the development of art in the Early Christian period?
Part one:
Summary: my experience answering this question is to have a understanding about culture and how each share similarities and difference which help impact a new art development in the early Christian period.
Reason: I believe the reason for this question is to understand how each culture are the same and are different from one another.
Purpose: I believe the purpose Mr. Fortier gave us this question was to make us students understand how there are similarities and difference in art and how that can make an impact alone to change history.
Direction: my direction for this question was to try to answer and understands the similarities and difference between each country.
Impression: what I received from answering this question was a new look in Egyptian, Greek and Roman art.
Part two : Answer:
There are many connections
between the Egyptians, Greek and Rome, such as managing to tell a story in their art work. The sculpture “Athena Attacking the Giants” tells a story of an
epic battle between the Godsand the Giants where the Greek goddess Athena grabbed the hair of a male
winged monster known as Alkyoneos a son of the earth goddess who was being
forced down on his knees as his mother begged Athena to release him (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn
Stokstad Michael W.Cothren,152).
“Akhenaten
and his family” is a Egyptian art that explains how Akhenaten and Queen
Neferititi received a royal blessing of Aten. The royal couple received the blessings of the Aten
who uses the rays to penetrate the open pavilion to offer ankhs through their
nose giving them the “breath of life” (Art
History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren,71). Just like the Greek and the Egyptians, Rome also held
stories with in their walls. Marilyn Stokstad Micheal, page.195 showed the
lower part of the Column of
Trajan showing the story of a scene of the Trajan
army crossing the Danube river, (Art History fourth edition volume one,
Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 195). Each
century tells a different story about heir Gods; however, the similarities
between each century are how their God is portrayed. There are similarities between the Egyptians, Greeks, and
Romans art culture. One similarity is
the way the sculpture is positioned. Greek
sculptures Navysos Kouros and Peplos Kore have the same position as the
Egyptian “MenKaure and a Queen” Each has one of
their legs
in front and both hands curled up in a fist. They both seem to be very stiff,
but a large difference between the two is how Anavysos Kouros and Peplos Kore
have a much warmer feeling with their facial expressions than Menkaure and his
Queen do.(Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael
W.Cothren, 59,166).
Egyptian art has unrealistic designs of human sculpture, The Queen Tily face does not seem as realistic compared to the Roman sculpture “Middle-aged Flavian Woman.” The Queen Tily lacks realism compared to a more detailed face of the middle-aged Flavian woman holds. The Flavian women hold a much more detail with musical aging and expression compared to Queen Tyle. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 72,191)
‘The Great temple of Amin at Karnak” is sustained by a long pole called a shaft. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 67). The Romans Pantheon temple also has a similar shaft design including the Greek temple of Aphaea (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 111).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpgMaler der Grabkammerder Nefertari-artist uknown- 1298-1235 BCE)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo1.JPG-artistunknown-secondcentury)
( http:Mosaic of Sol Invictus)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ChristAsSol.jpg - artist unknown -Early pre-4th century
The Early Christian period borrowed artistic
traits from Egyptians, Greek and Rome by using the Halo as a religious icon
that represent glow and purity. Halos
started to appear in Egyptian art by the art work of “RA with solar disc, before 1235 BC”, which
shows how Ra the sun god has a halo on his head. “The halo represents an aura or glow of sanctity which was conventionally
drawn encircling the head. It first appeared in the culture of Hellenistic
Greece and Rome, possibly related to theZoroastrian hvarena - "glory" or "divine
lustre" - which marked the Persian kings, and may have been imported
with Mithraism. Roman paintings have largely disappeared, save
some fresco decorations, the haloed figure remains fresh
in Roman mosaics. In a 2nd century AD Roman floor mosaic preserved at Bardo, Tunisia,[15] a haloed Poseidon appears in his chariot drawn by hippocamps. The triton and nereid who accompany the sea-god are not haloed.”(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(religious_iconography) it is not until the 4thcentury
was the halo being used to represent Jesus and his divine nature and ever since
then it has only been used to represent Jesus. Even though Egyptians, Roman and the
Greek appear different they are more identical
then we expected them to be.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
ESSAY #3b ESSAY TITLE: Truth and Beauty
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cnidus_Aphrodite_Altemps_Inv8619.jpg
Apbrodite of Cnidus-Praxiteles- 4th century BC)
(http://milan.milanovic.org/math/english/golden/golden4.html
The Parthenon-unkown-432BC)
(http://www.theslideprojector.com/art3/art3lecturepresentationssummer/art3lecture16.html-unkown-unkown)
ESSAY #3b
ESSAY TITLE: Truth
and Beauty
QUESTION: Using specific art references, why did the Greeks consider
"beauty" to be the same as "truth" and how different was
this philosophy from that of the Romans?
Part One:
Summary: My experience for trying to answer this
question is to understand the Roman and Greek idea of beauty being the same as
truth. I approached this question by trying to understand the art of autonomy
and proportion. I found answering the question fun because I have learned about
Greek and Roman history.
Reason: I felt the reason for being asked this
question is for us to understand the mind of different societies and what they
portray as truth and beauty. I also feel it was for us to have a good grip of
both societies because both had a large impact on art today.
Purpose: The purpose I believe is to understand
both Greek and Roman art and what is portrayed in that art, so when the class
starts to move forward, they will see the impact it had on today’s art.
Direction: I believe I have changed my old
opinions of how beauty and truth has affected Greek and Roman Culture. I now
understand how art today is inspired by them both.
Impression: what left me in an aha moment that I
will never forget is how the Greeks were so in tune with trying to portray
their art in a more realistic sense of how a human body really is.
Part two: Answer
Symmetry,
proportion and harmony are some of the definition of what the Greeks believed to
be truth and beauty. These three
examples alone would identify the Greeks, belief in physical appearance to be
highly important. The Greeks did not
believe as much of inner beauty as they did with outer beauty. The Greeks believed physical truth to be the
meaning of beauty they were able to require the actual evidence instead of spiritual
belief.
Believing outer beauty to be more truthful, people can find examples of the Greek’s theory with
the statue Aphrodite of Knidos. Cephisodotus, a Greek sculptor, sculpted the
statue Aphrodite of Kindos, and he sculpted it in a way to show the sexual and
seductive beauty of the body. “The bracelets on her upper left arm have a
similar effect. Her strong and well-toned body leans forward slightly, with one
projecting knee in a seductive pose that emphasize the swelling forms of her
thighs and abdomen” (Art History fourth adition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad
Micharl W.Cothren,145). This alone
proves how the Greeks saw outer beauty as explaining how the body and its natural
form are considered to be the truth in beauty.
Nike Adjusting Her
Sandal is another great example of how the Greeks believed the natural form
of the body is both beauty and truth. “The figure bends forward gracefully,
allowing her chiton to slip off one shoulder. Her large overlapping wing
effectively balances her unstable pose. Unlike the decorative swirls of heavy
fabric covering the Parthenon goddess of the weighty, pleated robes of the Erechtheion caryatids, the
textile covering this nike appears delicate and light, clinging to her body
like wet silk” ((Art History fourth adition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad
Micharl W.Cothren,138). This became one
of the most discreetly erotic images in ancient art.
Proportion was
another good example of Greeks portraying the truth in beauty. The Parthenon is
a temple located in Athens and is greatly admired by many because of the way it
was built. With the image, one can see
the temple Parthenon being built in a structure that seems direct and showing
order. “One key of the Parthenon’s is the sense of harmony and balance is an
attention to proportions-especially the ratio of 4;9, expressing the
relationship of breadth to length and also the relationship of column diameter
to space between columns.” ((Art History fourth adition volume
one, Marilyn Stokstad Micharl W.Cothren,130) The Greeks not only admired the beauty of
human autonomy; they also found beauty being similar to truth in structure and
pose. The Greeks highly believed the truth of beauty is what pleases the human
eye.
The Roman philosophy
is a completely different turn on what they believed to be beauty and truth
hold. The Romans believed the complete
opposite of Greek society; they believed power and strength hold truth and
beauty. Their art deals with force. The
Romans believe in brute strength as their truth in beauty; An example of Roman sculpture Aulus
Metellus’s statue is known as The Orator and shows a man trying to address a gathering of some sort while his
arm is outstretched; he wears sturdy
laced leather boots and is draped in a
toga toga ((Art History fourth adition volume one,
Marilyn Stokstad Micharl W.Cothren,171)
The image of The Orators does
not show anything erotic or sexual. it does not express the beauty of the body
but more of a powerful message of power and strength.
Even if both the Greeks and the Romans had opposite views
of the meaning of beauty with truth, they did have similar views about what
pleases the eye. For the Greeks it was the grace and beauty of the natural body
while for the Romans it was the strength of not the body but the message of
strength and power.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
ESSAY #6c
(http://paleothea.com/SortaSingles/Gaia.html Earth Goddess Gaia- artist unknown - date unknown)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ravi_Varma-Lakshmi.jpg Lakshmi - Raja Ravi Varma, date unkown)
(http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2074435560094554400PWtJnI page with the tree of jesse,explanation inisailm-date unkown.)
COMPARE & CONTRAST – Oh, Mamma!
INSTRUCTIONS: Find and post the images of the artwork(s) mentioned in the Topic Essay Question.
QUESTION: Describe the similarities of and connections between the cults of Earth goddess Gaia, the Virgin Mary and Devi, the Hindi Mother goddess. Select representative artwork depicting each one and describe the similarities in the imagery.
Part One
Summary:
I found many websites who spoke highly of Gaia and The Virgin Mary and Devis, I found it difficult to find more information about them in the Textbook and had to dig deeper until I found information and there was not a lot. I found it at first difficult of understanding what is a Devi. At first researching her I thought there were only one but there many with different names and personality and powers. I soon learn a lot more from a website who helped clear up all my questions.
Reason:
The reason for answering this Essay Question is to help us students understand the meaning of different religious icons and how there similar to one another even if their religion is quite the opposite.
.Purpose
I believe the purpose for Mr Fortier asking students this essay question is to hopefully make us understand the meaning of what women religious icons played in and why they are as important in the role of religion as the Gods.
Direction;
I believe I learn more then I normally that I was going to and enjoy doing so. I have a different point of view of each woman in the religion realm. I learned that even if Mary or Gaia or Hindu Devis are not in the same pedestal as God or the Gods they still play a large important role in religion.
Impressions
What Aha moment I will never forget knows that the Hindu religion has more than one Devi and how each of them has different forms. I would not forget that the Devis are form by cosmic power in the universe. Researching about Gaia the Earth Goddess I would not forget that she is the creation of all Gods and monsters and Titans.
Part two:
Answer:
In ancient Greek religion Gaia is the great mother all the Gods. With the help of Uranus, God of the sky, Gaia gave birth to all the Titans and the Giants. Gaia also gave birth to all of the sea-gods by the help of Pontus, the God of the sea. Gaia is the mother and creator of all the Gods and goddesses, not just by the help of both Uranus and Pontus, but by self producing. The first two sentences alone show similarities with Mary the Virgin mother of Jesus Christ. Mary is known by the Christians, Catholics, Islamic, and Jewish religion for giving birth to Jesus Christ while still being a virgin. One large similarity they share is being able to give birth to a child without the help of a man.
Another comparison between both Gaia and the Virgin Mary is each woman shares a motherly bond with their children. Both are worshiped as being the mother who created the life of important religious icons. The statue of “Virgin and Child” helps explain how “Mary, as the Mother and “God-bearer, gave Jesus his human nature. She forms a throne on which he sits in majesty, but she also represents the Church” (Art History first edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Micheal W.Cothren, 157) Even if Mary is not a God herself she still is highly recognized as someone very important to the church. Just like the Virgin Mary Gaia is worshipped by others for being a motherly figure to the Gods, “The Greeks worship the Greek goddess of Earth, Gaia even today. The ancient Greeks considered her as a Mother of all things and they believe every movable and living being sprang up from her.” (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/greek-goddess-of-earth.html).
Devi the Hindu mother Goddess is an Indian Goddess who is known for her many different forms of female divinity In Buddhism Devi is also mentioned in different forms. For example, in the temple of Torana there is a statue called the Yakshi bracket Figure. Yakshis are known as the finest female figures in Indian art. Looking at the image 9-10 in the textbook, you can see a Yakshis statue which shows how her body is swelling and arching which evokes the deity’s procreative and bountiful essence. With the personification with the waters, the Yakshis is known for being the source of life ((Art History first edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Micheal W.Cothren, 301). This explains that each religious female icon is known and praised for their motherly role in fertility.
. Another comparison is neither Devi nor Gaia are born from another female homosapien, but by the divine power of the universe. Devi is first known as being a cosmic force, “Devi is first seen as cosmic force, where she destroys demonic forces that threaten equilibrium, and creates, annihilates, and recreates the universe.” (http://www.asia.si.edu/devi/aspectsofdevi.htm) were as Gaia who rose after Chaos becoming a everlasting foundation of the gods of Olympus.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology). Neither goddess had any human traits that the Virgin Mary did.
In each of the pictures above there are similarities between them all. For example, in the picture of Devi and The Virgin Mary, both might not share the same religious meanings, but hold the same importance. The third image is the Devi, called Lakshmi, who’s right hand is gesturing downward. This gesture is called a Varda Mudra “This Gesture charity, symbolize the fulfillment of all wishes” (Art History first edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Micheal W.Cothren, 304). Lakshmi left hand reaches upwards which represents Abhaya Mudra. Abhaya Mudra gesture is of reassurance, blessing and protection, which means “have no fear”(Art History first edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Micheal W.Cothren, 304). The Virgin Mary in the image above, called the Tree of Jesse shows Mary’s left hand in a gesture which represents the sign of the cross. In Gaia’s stomach you can see what I believe is planet earth. The image of the earth in her stomach represents both the mother of all creation and the Earth Goddess herself. The last example of similarities between each religious icon, is how Gaia has a somewhat similar seating position relating to the Buddha and Attendants statue. In the textbook you can see an image marked 9-13, of Buddha sitting with his leg crossed. One of his legs reach upwards were you can see his bare feet. This represents a type of mediation. ((Art History first edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Micheal W.Cothren, 304)
Noticing each comparison between each of the female religious icons, I can understand how they are alike in many ways. Even if each religion worshipped different gods and goddesses, each holds the same connection in the roles of women. These symbolize love, purity, beauty, and most importantly fertility.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
ESSAY #3a ESSAY TITLE: This and That
The Great temple of Amin at Karnak-middle kingdom-12th-22nd Dynasties)
Romans Pantheon temple-126 AD)
ESSAY #3a ESSAY TITLE: This and That
QUESTION: How are Egyptian, Greek and Roman art and architecture both interconnected and yet independent and; how did they collectively or independently affect the development of art in the Early Christian period?
Part one:
Summary: my experience answering this question is to have a understanding about culture and how each share similarities and difference which help impact a new art development in the early Christian period.
Reason: I believe the reason for this question is to understand how each culture are the same and are different from one another.
Purpose: I believe the purpose Mr. Fortier gave us this question was to make us students understand how there are similarities and difference in art and how that can make an impact alone to change history.
Direction: my direction for this question was to try to answer and understands the similarities and difference between each country.
Impression: what I received from answering this question was a new look in Egyptian, Greek and Roman art.
PART TWO:
Answer:
For this question I was asked to explain the similarities and difference between Egyptian, Greek and Roman art and architecture. Though the Egyptian was separated by a different century I discovered many connections between the three. One example of a connection is how both the Greek and Egyptian managed to tell a story in their art work. The sculpture “Athena Attacking the Giants” tells a story of an epic battle between the Gods and the Giants, during the battle, the Greek goddess Athena grabbed the hair of a male winged monster known as Alkyoneos a son of the earth goddess who son was being forced down on his knees as his mother begged Athena to release him. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren,152) An Egyptian art known as “Akhenaten and his family” explained how Akhenaten and Queen Neferititi who had received a royal blessing of Aten. The royal couple received the blessings of the Aten who uses the rays to penetrate the open pavilion to offer ankhs through their nose giving them the “breath of life” (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren,71) Just like the Greek and the Egyptians, Romans also held stories with in their walls. At page 195 you see the lower part of the Column of Trajan, at this piece it tells the story of a scene of the Trajan army corssing the Danube river on a pontoon bridge as being the first Dacian campaign. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren,195) I compare both of these art work because I believe both expressed there stories about the God or Gods they believed in and how they were portrayed In their lives.
Another large similarity between the Egyptians and Greeks and the Romans is how there sculptures all seem to have the same position. for example, Anavysos Kouros and Peplos Kore have the same position as the Egyptian sculpture “MenKaure and a Queen”. Both art works have their one leg moved out and both hands curled up in a fist. They both seem to be very stiff, but a large difference between the two is how Anavysos Kouros and Peplos Kore have a much warmer feeling with their facial expressions then Menkaure and his Queen does. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 59,166). In architecture all three countries were very impressive, the Egyptian and Greek have a major contrast and difference between them. In the image on page 67 it shows a long pole called a shaft that keeps ‘The Great temple of Amin at Karnak” sustained (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 67) In page 111 the Greek also had a similar shaft, Roman and Greece had seem to share the same design Romans Pantheon temple. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 111)
the Egyptian made countless of art work of humans faces which seemed very unrealistic. Egyptian art was not very realistic though it held traits of a human being. An example is the head of Queen Tily who face does not seem very realistic compared to the Roman sculpture Middle-aged Flavian Woman. When you see both of this art work you begin to notice the lack of detail and realism the Queen Tily has compared to the more detailed face of the middle-aged Flavian woman. The Flavian women hold a much more detail with musical aging and expression compared to Queen Tyle. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 72,191)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpg Maler der Grabkammerder Nefertari-artist uknown- 1298-1235 BCE)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo1.JPG -artist unknown -second century)
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ChristAsSol.jpg - artist unknown - Early pre-4th century Mosaic of Sol Invictus)
the Early Christian period borrowed artistic traits from Egyptians, Greek and Rome by using the Halo as a religious icon which represent glow and purity, halos started to appear in Egyptian art by the art work “RA with solar disc, before 1235 BC” you can see how Ra the sun god has a halo on his head, and just like the Egyptians the Romans also had paintings with halos. “The halo represents an aura or glow of sanctity which was conventionally drawn encircling the head. It first appeared in the culture of Hellenistic Greece and Rome, possibly related to theZoroastrian hvarena - "glory" or "divine lustre" - which marked the Persian kings, and may have been imported with Mithraism. Though Roman paintings have largely disappeared, save somefresco decorations, the haloed figure remains fresh in Roman mosaics. In a 2nd century AD Roman floor mosaic preserved at Bardo, Tunisia,[15] a haloed Poseidon appears in his chariot drawn byhippocamps. Significantly, the triton and nereid who accompany the sea-god are not haloed.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(religious_iconography) it is not until the 4th century was the halo being used to represent Jesus and his divine nature and ever since then it has only been used to represent Jesus. Even though Egyptians, Roman and the Greek appear differentthey are more identical then we expected them to be.
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