Ozymandias
From what you know about art or history,
how does this poem relate to art history and
what it can teach us about our existence?
Listen, read, and then discuss with a
partner. Formulate your answer in five
well constructed sentences on the back
of your sheet.
SUGGESTIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING THIS POEM
1. Look up unknown words (phones are
okay)
2. Break it apart, and summarize or
paraphrase small parts
3. Ask questions you want to ask your
partner.
4. Summarize its meaning in one sentence.
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
From what you know about art or history,
how does this poem relate to art history and
what it can teach us about our existence?
Listen, read, and then discuss with a
partner. Formulate your answer in five
well constructed sentences on the back
of your sheet.
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".
Ozymandias
From what you know about art or history,
how does this poem relate to art history and
what it can teach us about our existence?
Listen, read, and then discuss with a
partner. Formulate your answer in five
well constructed sentences on the back
of your sheet.
What is Art Anyway?
“You call that art? My kid
could do it!”
Sandstone Buddha, India, 15th
Century
Isenheim Altarpiece, Mathias
Grunewald
Marilyn Monroe, Warhol
The goal of art history is to
illuminate all of these ideas and,
by extension, the societies from
which they spring.
Our modern viewpoint about art is
rather new!
What is Art History anyway?
The Minoans
Art Historian
• S/he sorts objects into classes by similarity
and period.
Japanese Art and Influences
Cassatt, American
Art Historian
• S/he sorts objects into classes by similarity
and period.
• The art historian will look at each
painting’s iconography, symbols and
themes.
Art Historian
• S/he sorts objects into classes by similarity
and period.
• The art historian will look at each
painting’s iconography, symbols and
themes.
• S/he completes a formal analysis, studying
the way the artwork is made as an object
of design.
Art Historians: 2 Camps
The Artist Through the Ages
The Artist Through the Ages
The Artist Through the Ages
The Artist Through the Ages
The Artist Through the Ages