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Different Cultures of the

WorldUnited

Through Art

Pyrimids of Gisa-Cheops is the largest, the other two are for Chferen and Mycerinus.

Golden Mask of King Tutankhamun1323 BCGold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones 54cm highEgyptian Museum, Cairo

The Great Sphinx-The Egyptian sphinx is usually a head of a king wearing his headdress and the body of a lion.

Fowling Scene from Nebamun's Tomb1400 BCpainted plaster wall 31cmBritish Museum, London

Egyptian art remained unchanged for 3,000 years. Their overriding concern was assuring a comfortable after life for their rulers, who were considered gods. Colossal architecture and Egyptian art existed to surround the pharaoh’s sprit with eternal glory.

Quenn Nefertiti – 1360 BC

Idia's Mask. Benin, Nigeria

Nigil dance mask. Fang, Garbon

Ngady aMwaash Mask. Kuba, Zaire

Zaire, Luama River, Zimba, Bango Bango, or Hemba peopleMaskLate 19th-early 20th centuryIvorySenufo- Rhythm

Pounder

In the many nations, kingdoms, and culture groups of the African continent, the arts were interwoven with all facets of everyday life. Sculpture, music , dance, drama, and other forms of art played an important role in the daily lives of the people.

Many of the similarities observed in African art forms are due to the fact that artists select communal activities, rituals, and ceremonies as the focus of their works. A great part of African art emphasizes the important events of life and the forces in nature that influence the lives of individuals and communities.

Kono Mask

Great Mosque - Cordoba

Al-Aqsa Mosque Dome of the Rock Jerusalum

Carved and Braided Arabesques

Wailing Wall BIRDS' HEAD HAGGADAH

Worship without “graven images”, decorates surface of useful objects. Images of living creatures were not used.

Islamic artists decorated mosques and other religious structures with ornate calligraphy, geometric patterns and stylized plants and flowers.

Taj Mahal, Agra, India

Pampapati Temple

Asian Architecture

This surviving temple and temple complex is the core of the village of Hampi. It is also known as the Pampapati temple. It predated the empire, and was extended between the 13th and 17th centuries. It has two courts with entrance gopurams. The main entrance with a 50 meter gopuram faces east into a ceremonial and colonnaded street, that exends for more than half a mile, to a monolithic statue of Nandi.The temple is still in use at the present day. It is dedicated to Virupaksha, an aspect of Shiva and his consort Pampa, a local deity.

The Liurong Temple, located on Liurong Road, is an ancient temple that is well-known both at home and abroad. It was named by Su Dongpo, a great poet and calligrapher of the Song Dynasty.

Hokusai, Katsushika- The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Hiroshige Ando - Moon Pine, UenoFrom "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo“ 1857 Woodblock Print

Han Gan - White Night Horse

Pottery Figure of a Military Officer This is the image of a low ranking Qin officer. He wears a round top-knot and a round soft cap. His shins are protected by leggings, and he wears square-toed shoes. The half-closed hands originally held weapons.

Asian cultures: China, Japan, India, Malaysia

Winepot with chih-dragon handle and spout Ming Dynasty

China - Considered the oldest continuing civilization. Early Chinese art centered on animals and on everyday lives of people.

Japan – Japanese culture is the croduct of long periods of isolation from outside cultural influences. The general characteristics of Japanese art are simplicity of form and design, attentiveness to the beauty of nature, and subtlety.

Chinese - Mallet-shaped vase with phoenix earsSouthern Sung Dynasty (1127-1279)

Japan - Portrait of the Zen Master Hotto Kokushi

Discoblus - ClassicalLaocoon Group -HellenisticLady of Auxerre

Kore figure- Archaic

Acropolis

The arts present the universal ideal of beauty through logic, order, reason and moderation. The purpose of the arts is to instruct and perfect human kind. The arts are also used in ritual to affirm the importance of the gods.

Hercules, Eurystheus and the Erymanthian savage boar. Black-figure pelikePeriod: Archaic 700-480 BC

with fish in hand.Red-figure hydriaClassical 480-330 BC

The Temple of Athena Nike420 B.C. Kallikrates. Ionic order

Poarch of the Maidens 420BC

Temple of Apolloc. 540 BC Doric Order

Doric Capital

Pantheon, Italy, Rome; 118-35 A.DColosseum; Italy, Rome; 72 A.D.Roman Aqueductend of 1st to early 2nd century

Trajan (ruled 98-117 AD)

Rome’s most valuable contribution was in architecture. Roman builders not only developed the arch, vault, and dome but pioneereed the creative use of concrete.

The most significant Roman development in sculpture was the portrait bust.

Roman fresco-from the house of Livia on the Palatine

The Arch of ConstantineErected in honor of Emperor

Constantine, after battle to defeat Maxentius at the

Milvian Bridge in 315 AD.

Portrait of a Roman woman

Colossal statue of Constantine as Cosmocratorfrom the Basilica of Constantine on the Roman Forum

Arch of Titus

School of Athens-Raphael

Michelangelo- Sistene Ceiling and Statue of David

Leonardo da Vinci-Mona Lisa

Michelangelo Pieta

The arts reflect new freedom of thought and expression as well as the beginning of scientific explorations.

The purpose of the arts is to promote the “rebirth” of Greek and Roman thought and practices after the Middle Ages. The arts also reconcile faith and reason.

Lorenzo Ghirberti – the Gates of Paradise East door Detail

Italian Renaissance

David, Jacques-LouisThe Oath of the Horatii 1784

David, Jacques-LouisDeath of Marat

David – Napolean In His Study

The arts reflect a return to order, reason and structural clarity. This period is also refered to as the Age of Reason as well as Neo-Classicism. In music, this period is known as the Classical period.The purpose of arts is a reaction to the excesses of monarchy and ornamentation of the Baroque.

David – The Death of SocratesThomas Jefferson: Monticello, 1770-1796; 1809

Delacroix, Eugène Liberty leading the People - Painted on 28 July 1830, to commemorate the July Revolution that had just brought Louis-Phillipe to the throne.

Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819,

showing the dying survivors of a contemporary shipwreck.

Friedrich, Caspar DavidThe Sea of Ice

The arts reflect freedom, emotion, sentimentality and spontaneity. Also reflected is an interest in the exotic, patriotic, primitive, and supernatural.

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Constable - Arundel Mill and Castle1837

The purpose of the arts is to revolt against neo-classical order and reason as well as a return to nature and imagination

John Constable- view of Salsbury Cathedral

Francisco de Goya – Shooting of May Third

Franz Marc - The Yellow Cow

Oskar Kokoschka Self

Portrait of a Degenerate Artist

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Two Women in the Street

Max Beckman – Party in Paris

Edvard Munch -The Scream

Inspired by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch a group of German artists insisted that art should express ones feelings rather than images of the real world. Expressionists used distorted, exaggerated forms and colors for emotional impact.

Andy Warhol - Campbell Soup Can

Salvador Dali – Tthe Persistance of Memory, 1931

Georgia O’Keeffe - Cow skull with Calico Roses

Picasso- Guernica

Jackson Pollack Convergence #10

Willem de Kooning, WomanIV , Netherlands (1904-1997)

The arts reflect the use of experimenta techniques, the diversity of society and the blending of cultures. These movements broke with or redefined the conventions of the past.

Jacob Lawrence- Tombstones

Lawrence used art to show injustice and motivate reform.

Dorothy Lange-Migrant Mother

White Angel Breadline,San Francisco, Ca. 1933

Frank Lloyd Wright – Falling Water

Modern/Contemporary

Dorothea Lange focused on the suffering caused by the Depression.

Frank Lloyd Wright- One of the most significant architects ever. He designed buildings so that walls, ceilings and floors flowed with each other and the outside environment.

Frank Lloyd Wright- Guggenheim Museum

                                                   

  

We will use patterns to unite the composition, you will want to use a pattern symbolic of a specific culture or many different cultures.

Pay attention to the symbolism and the ideas behind the work.

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