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.