FSN 232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kouros, Ise Grand Shrine, Erechtheion
18 Apr 2016
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Naturalism (accurate representation of the real world) 2. realism (very close to the real thing). Illusionism (representation of real event, re ecting reality) 4. Non-representational= art does not depict anything in our world e. g spirals. Contextualism (looks a big picture, places art in time and place, backs off from interpretations) pre historic:upper paleolithic. Catahoyuk houses: house built upon house, dead buried under oors, paintings cover inside walls. Tombs/ceremonial structures from stone. structures represent death as they were used for burials. e. g post and lintel- more. Corbel: another method of openings, rows of stone. Dolmen: simplest type of tomb. structure mounded with smaller rocks/dirt forming a cairn(arti cial hill) passage graves (more elaborate tombs with corridors leading to burial chamber). henge circle of stones with surrounding ditch. Mesopotamia: hydraulic civilization (development of human culture related to controlling the water). Invented writing (cuneiform) made with stylus wedge shape on a stylus. Show power ex. statue of gudea (king) holds water=shows power.
