Module 8 Videos

For the main video that we had to watch More Human than Human, the important and key fact that I pulled out are:
- Pictures of the human body dominates us and became obsessed with the world's greatest artists.
-People rarely make images of the body to be realistic.
-The first sculptor Venus was a woman made out of limestone and it is worth 60 million. This was also the first finding of unrealistic human art.
-80,0000 years ago nothing was made that involves art and 30,000 years ago images started.
-They connected the study of seagulls to the study of the unrealistic human-exaggerations stimulate the birds and what mattered most to people to have toe exaggerate body parts.
-Egyptians were the first settled humans to use images of the to extensively in their art.
-Egyptian bodies in art do not have over exaggerated features, but rather have very realistic ones.
-They showed each art from its clearest angle.
-Egyptian style lasted 3,000 years without any change to it.
-Egyptian buildings and statues were made on a simply astonishing scale and they had an obsession with order which represented their culture.
-Culture is king and dictates how we depict the human body.
-Ancient Greeks were fixated on the body and what it should look like especially athletic men.
-Wanted to see images of realistic gods in their temples and they were filled with large life statues.
-Angles of the body changes with motion and physical perfection
-Ancient Greece created bronzers
The second video that I chose to watch was The Greek Awakening: Art from the 5th Century BC
-Greeks gave us our sense of history and philosophy.
-Sculptors began being made more realistic
-The Parthenon symbolizes the emergency of western civilization and today it attracts around 2 million tourists.
-The columns look perfect, but are rarely any straight lines and would meet at the top they would meet.
-The Parthenon has been used as a church, mosque and a temple.
-The image we have today is difficult to maintain
-Pollution attacks the marble and that is why a lot of the older sculptors need parts replaced
-Art came about when Alexander the Great was around
-The pediment shows the battle between Poseidon and Athena

I chose this video because I am taking another class that is focused around this time period. It is Western Civilization. I find this time period interesting because of all the information that was of that time with the romans, the Greeks and the Egyptians. I think that the videos worked well with the readings because it gave you a better understanding of the types of art and the sculptors. The temples were really interesting and how the columns were made and proportioned. The video gave a lot of depth to the readings and it helped me understand the information easier.

Module 7 post

This chapter of the book was a bit far from what I am interested in, even thought this is something that I should think about more about because it is extremely important.
The first video that I watched was Prairie Style and some of the key concepts that I pulled out are:
-Wide open horizontal living style changed American architecture. 
-Frank Wright wanted single family homes to represent time, place and landscape.
-He felt this helps the architecture grow out of the land. 
-He built his first promo type in 1904
-He built his homes with wanting the unique experience of walking inside. 
-Working with the nature and the sun to make the home have more of a comfort feel to it. 
-His concept of the house was different, reorganizing and changing. 
-He had a direct influence on other architects and
they started to incorporate his ideas in their work. 
-Writes influences sun orientation and the natural environment.

The second video that I watched was Architecture: The Science of Design:
-Buildings were built on slabs of reinforced concrete bigger than the actual building to support the living weight. 
-A big issue is that wind increases proportion to the buildings height and can also make the buildings sway back and forth. 
-If buildings have poor architecture/were built poorly, wind can ruin the structure. 
-Data can calculate types of weather building can stand in an environment that they know they are going to be built at and can further decide how big and the other aspects of building it can be. 
-Wind tunnel testing can detect hoe much snow will accumulate on the tops of buildings.
-Intelligent houses connect to a computer and can control many aspects of the house with a phone, computer or any device. 
-Architecture has become a social art form
-Architects are constantly changing the materials and requirements that they work with to further help them build the best structure. 
-Concrete is in all forms of architecture and is used as a hydrolic binder. 

The videos that I watched explains more in depth the process of building a structure and both the book and the videos emphasize the importance of where buildings are build and what they can withstand. With the first video, the book said some about the placing of the buildings in the environment and I liked that connection. I kind of liked the films. They seemed a bit old, but they worked out and did the job that they needed to. I did feel like the second video i watched was a bit dated. I am not going to lie i choose these films because they were the shortest and i wanted to get done faster, but it worked out good for me because I had a hard time reading this chapter and the information in the second video helped me realize what I might have missed or touched up on it a lot more. I did like the end of the chapter when they talked about more of the newer architecture and it really made me realize the things that can be built and how much they impact our daily lives. 

Response to videos

I found the videos very insightful. I had a hard time reading some of this chapter because I was just not that into it, but the videos helped me get more involved. The videos and the readings together help each other explain more about it with seeing the process. Watching them make the sculptures got me a bit more interested especially the clay process and the molding.

In the video Through the eyes of a Sculptor I for a lot of things interesting. 

-It is important for artists to know who they really are so they move away from home like Emmanuel did. 

-Stone Cory is always 12 degrees Celsius and their is no climate change. Every stone has a different smell. 

-Sculptors must use feelings to put life into the sculptor and to keep ideas fresh Emmanuel worked on more than one sculptor at one time. 

-They make molds of clay for a negative

-Pours plaster in mold to cast the plaster model. 

-Michelangelo work still inspires the nation

-Try to put themselves in the sculpture to really feel the movement you want to express.

-Not just 1 person works on a marble sculpture many people do. Something like 5 to 7 people because they all specialize in different areas. 

-The stone is the canvas for a sculpture

Marble is 99.9% calcium carbonate 

Glass and Ceramics

-Glass is made from said, but the properties are different and glass is not a true solid.

-Fusion occurs at 1500 degrees Celsius

-On contact with air, the glass gradually hardens as it cools, but it can be re heated to form a different shape.

-Final firing gives it strength and protects it from thermal shock which can weaken it. 

-There are many types of ceramics, but the difference in it are the raw materials that are used.

-Clay is fired at 1100 degrees Celsius  and is used to make bricks or floor tiles

-Dry firing is the most important part because it determines the final characteristics

-Glazing also makes it water proof and can also give ceramics color when substances are added to them. 

Peer Responses

As per instruction, I tried to look at the student above me and evaluate their work, but they did not have the elements slideshow so I just picked two different people I hope that is okay.

The first person who’s blog I used was http://ashleys-art200.blogspot.com/.

Project 1: She did not have the pictures labeled to what one went with what element and principle, but it was interestingly obvious what one went with what. I do agree with the pictures that she chose because they are close to mine. I chose a lot of the outdoor type of things as I had limited time and I was trying to find ways I can get things done at work. I also used the rug as one of my pictures and I am pretty sure I used mine for texture.

Project 2: I really liked the art and the pictures she chose for this project. I chose one of the same as her and that was Winter by Charles E Burchfield. We both were wondering why the artist decided to paint that winter scene and how it made it look a certain way. I did take pictures of a few of the ones that she had posted, but I chose not to use them. We both liked the same type of pictures, but I cannot speak for her as to why she liked them, but I just have a fascination with canvas painting.

The second persons who’s blog I chose was http://jayczuba.blogspot.com/

Project 1: When it came to the pictures that he chose had me very interested. He had gone to Disney in the past and used the pictures form that. The picture that he used for space and form really stuck out to me and made me wonder more about the pictures that I chose. I do feel that he had a better idea than I did when it came to the connections to the elements and principles and the connection to the pictures that he chose. I think that he did a very good job with it.

Project 2: James and I had only one picture the same and that was White Flag by Paul Fagerskiold. He thought the flag meant surrender, which it might, but I just thought it was a mystery. I was interested in this painting because of how it was made and what it might represent because in the description it said that it was a gift. I liked the pictures that he chose, but you can definitely tell that we have a different taste in the art that we like and that is completely okay.

I did like the pictures that my peers chose for their projects. The way James used his pictures from Disney and how Ashley used pictures from home really caught my eye. I liked Ashley’s because they were close to the things I chose and I liked James’s because they were farthest from that. I did like reading the things that my peers had to say about their projects. It was good to get someone else’s point of view on things when it comes to projects that I also participated in. I do find this very valuable and it gave me a better understanding on some of the art I chose.