FSN 132 Lecture 3: FSN132 Art History Lecture Week 3.docx
Document Summary
Must pay very close attention to how she uses background information in lectures and how she relates them to the art works. Artworks that are not discussed will not be on the exam. The importance of symbolism: when she is the pharaoh, she had the beard, when she"s the sphinx, she also has a beard. Taking on different kinds of role in each portrait. Zoser"s funerary complex 2630 b. c, *not in textbook. Horse was probably represented at the size that it really was. Both have profile faces but bodies that show all the limbs. Knossos: toreador fresco (4. 6) & nebanun hunting birds (3. 35) comparison. Usually in egyptian art, woman are paler than men. Nebanun: hunting, detail, very symmetrical, very stable. Knossos: jumping on a bull, more kinetic (lines), more abstract, action shot moment caught in time, curve of linear lives in general, suggest motion. Adams p 135 greek gods and roman counterparts.
