SP2019.FA111.ArtHistory

Here's your chance to gather some points towards your final grade! Found in our text: Art, A Brief History  by Stokstad and Cothren p. 116 Subject:  Spear Bearer (Doryphoros) by Polykleitos from Ancient Greece ** You can find quite a bit of research information on this particular subject on the internet that includes a video.   You will need to include at least two extra sources beyond our text. Date: 450 - 440 BCE What is in your essay? 1.   i. Where did it come from?  Who made it?  What are its materials? How was it made? - 10% ii. Explain its cultural significance  (10%) #1 Assessment worth > 20% 2.  Explain how these specific formal elements are operating in  Spear Bearer   (Doryphoros) by Polykleitos  from Ancient Greece i Line ii Volume / Mass iii. Texture iv. Space v. Color and Value #2 Assessment worth > 50% 3.  Connect the work  Spear Bearer   (Doryphoros) by Polykleitos from Ancient Greece  to FIGURE OF A WOMAN FROM THE CYCLADES c

Using  Stokstad's  introduction "Starter Kit" in our text, we have become familiar with how to deconstruct and analyze any piece of visual work, whether ancient or made yesterday.   This is an opportunity for you to put your skills together and demonstrate the knowledge gleaned and present it in a class setting.  Student presentations will be in  WK 11      TU APR 16 & TH APR 18             Pre Registration week FA 2019 Student Multi-Media Presentations  - plan on 4 - 5 minutes per presentation.       In your presentations, you will create a  comparative analysis  between two forms. Process Part ONE 1. Select one image from our text we have never seen in my lecture notes from our text from Prehistory to Gothic Art. NOTE:  You may  not  use my examples, nor any of the student examples noted below.  2. Your second image is to be found from the world of images made in the last century, between 1919 - 2019 They may be similar in  subject matter  

Learning Objectives: Etruscan art celebrates the vitality of the human experience, how? What are the distinctive visual representations of the human figure in Etruscan and Roman art? Identify the major trends in the monuments of Imperial Roman art and architecture. Identify the visual design changes in the Late Roman Empire and their architecture. But first, w here in the world are we? End of the Bronze Age   (about 1000 BCE)  Villanovans occupied northern and western regions of Italy.  The central region was home to people who spoke what is closest to Latin today. Beginning in the  8th-century  people, the Greeks had established colonies here. During the  7th century , people known as the  Etruscans  (related to Villanovans) gained control of the north and much of central Italy as it's known today. Etruscans reached their height of power in the  6th century  and expanded throughout Italy. Etruscan wealth came from fertile soil and an abundance of metal ore.  T