Visual Arts History 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Contrapposto, Acropolis Museum, Verism
22 Jan 2015
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Trial and error of sculpture, begin to develop a uniform scale. Battle between gods and goddesses and beasts. Parthenon: greeks shown losing rather than victorious as usual. Responds to the trauma of war and uncertainty. New acropolis museum: push to develop infrastructure of greek museums. Many greek artworks no longer in greece. Greeks feel pillaged, robbed, built acropolis to demonstrate how they can maintain and take care of artworks. : makes money for british museum (economic issues in. Mosaic forms, complex clearly told from side of the greeks. Alexander drawing horse out, darius shown running away defeated. Composition coherent, shows real development in art works. Linear perspective shown, perspective placed on darius and alexander. Reflection of fallen soldier on his shield. Where tragedies took place, echo"s from below. Structure of temples get inverted and manipulated. Etruscans used terra cotta (fired clay) to create their structures. Reclining couple on sarcophagus: remains were buried with sculpture, women had some authority.
