Warm-up 5-12-15
FINALS REVIEW
Obj: SWBAT analyze
Egyptian artwork by
describing how they
reflect the ideals of the
period
Homework Due
Today:
•NOTHING!!
YAY!!
Respond to the following:
1.Who are the figures in
the work?
2.What is the function of
this work?
3.What are the stylistic
characteristics of the
work?
4.Why was the this
person portrayed this
way?
Due Today:
Nothing
PAST DUE:
•Ch
31 Cue Cards (22 Total)
•Ch
30 Cue Cards (30 total)
•Ch
29 Cue Cards (32 total)
•Ch
28 Cue Cards (18 total)
•Chapter
26 & 27 Cue Cards
Future Due Dates:
Friday May 15th: Final Exam
Announcements:
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Attend Wedding Singer
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Show
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5pm
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work: Friday June 5th
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Cards Due
Ch 31 Cue
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SBAC Testing
Begins
Sub Day
Final Exam
The Wedding Singer Play
Exam
Nyman Final
Hall 7pm
Sub Day
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SBAC Testing (11th Graders)
VAPA Art
Show
4-6pm
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Night
Final Project
Due for Seniors
The Wedding
Singer
1pm & 7pm
Respond to the following:
1.Who are the figures in the work?
2.What is the function of this work?
3.What are the stylistic characteristics of
the work?
4.Why was the this person portrayed this
way?
Menkaure and Khamerenebty
from Gizeh, Egypt
ca. 2,490-2,472 B.C.E.
graywacke
approximately 54 1/2 in. high
Old Kingdom
Menkaure and
Khamerernebty
Materials: (Graywacke) Stone
Figures represented:
Pharaoh Menkaure and his wife
Khamerernebty
Pharaoh wears kilt, headress (nemes),
fake beard
Function:
House the Pharoah’s Ka aster death
Placed in tomb
Flashcard
Canon of proportions
3-13 Menkaure and his Queen
Khamerernebty (?), sculpture
Left leg longer
Stylistic characteristics:
• High-Relief--figures remain attached to the block
Menkaure and
of stone (not exactly detached sculpture)
Khamerernebty
• Static, stiff pose, one food forward, hand
clenched
• Idealized portrait—no imperfections, not
realistic
• Canon of proportions—rules of size relationships
Function & significance:
• Not about portraying live figures, but
timelessness, divine nature of the pharaoh and
house his Ka in the tomb
• Canon of proportions = ideas of perfection
Old Kingdom
Buddhism
• What are the Buddhist spiritual beliefs?
• Worship? God(s)? Spiritual figures?
• Afterlife? Lifestyle?
Buddhism
• Belief in reincarnation—cycle of life and death
• Siddartha Guatama was a prince who achieve enlightenment or Nirvana—
He became who we know as the Buddha
• Siddartha was said to attain Nirvana under a Bodi Tree
• Buddha is a Person, NOT a god
• Nirvana—reincarnation ends, bliss
• Goal is to eliminate suffering, ignorance and desire
• Self-control and not acting on impulses, practicing meditation
Buddhism
• What are elements of
Buddhist Iconography?
• What is the meaning
behind Buddhist
Iconography?
Buddhism
Stylistic Characteristics of Buddha:
• Cross legged pose=meditative state
• Elongated ear lobes=mark of once being a
prince wearing heavy earrings
• Hands in gestures of meditation or peace
offering
• Thin physique, Top knot hair and Draped
clothing = ascetic, monk-like lifestyle,
constant meditation and not engaging in
worldly desires
Art Historical Period Poster
Instructions:
1. Each group will be given an Art Historical
Period
2. You will write the following using the Frayer
format:
1. Definition/Context
2. Stylistic Characteristics
3. Picture Examples/Artists
4. Picture Non-Examples/non-Artists
3. You will present the info to the class as a
group
Art Historical Periods:
1. Byzantine
2. Italian Baroque
3. Northern Baroque
4. Italian Renaissance
5. Northern Renaissance
6. Gothic
7. Romanesque
You will be receiving points for this
assignment
TIPS:
• Be thorough, But Clear
• Use Vocab terms
• Do work that is neat and professional
• Do your fair share—give input, take input
• No One likes a lazy person in their
group!!
Definition/Context:
Stylistic Characteristics:
lein Air- Painting directly from nature OUTDOORS– capture
Art of industrialized urban Paris; 1870s Ptransitory
light/color, climate, and atmospheric effects
Optics
& 1880s
• optical sensations and SURFACE of painting, emphasis on
LIGHT!!
focus on a single fleeting moment,
• Impasto—thick application of paint
similar to photography
Portable Paint
• Pre- mixed oil paint in tubes
Influenced by JAPANESE PRINTS
Prints and Photography
• Influx of Japanese prints
Beginning of Abstraction
• Photographic composition/cropping
Quick/in the moment
• Painted QUICKLY and directly on white canvas
Impressionism
Examples /Artists:
Monet, Degas, Cassatt, Renoir
Non-Examples/Non-Artists:
Romanticism—Thomas Cole, Turner
Realism—Corbet, Millett
German Expressionism--Kandinsky