ART HIST 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gerhard Richter, Quattrocento, Masaccio
11 Apr 2018
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Know media and date, do not need to know where it is right now. 11:59 pm, feb 4 is when new assignment is due now. Became a thing to make a portrait of your eye and give or recieve to ones lover. Concept of cognitive style: the manor in which you think, the ways in which you were educated to think about certain subjects. Pictorial style: way in which pictures are structured and made. Gerhard richter, famous contemporary german artist: stripes. Every human being has experienced the parallel convergence of lines on the distant horizon into a vanishing pointgm. Peter shown 3 times in the same scene. Masaccio, expulsion of adam and eve from eden. Full sized, fully nude as they were expelled. Adam does not cover himself: not afraid to be seen nude. Adam covers his eyes since too ashamed to be seen. Eve expresses a shame at being seen. One of the largest frescos in the friary.
