HISTART 62 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Berkeley Art Museum And Pacific Film Archive, Palazzo Vecchio, Thomas Struth

• School: Berkeley
• Department: History Of Art
• Course: HISTART 62
• Professor: Henrike Christiane Lange

Document Summary

Sections this week will meet with professor lange in the berkeley art. No lecture in moffitt on friday, sept. 9. Discuss matter / material ground: form, material, size, scale, weight, details such as punch marks, the material properties of decoration, frame, losses, damages suffered by the object, etc. ( autopsy ) Discuss: form, composition, format, shape, scale, figure size, levels of abstraction, naturalism, light/shadow, hues, texture. Different reactions of visitors with reaction to space. Michelangelo"s david (1501-1504), galleria dell"accademia, florence (copy in front of the palazzo vecchio, florence) Tree trunk statue behind him as a form of support. Foot is damaged: acts of vandalism. Hands are unproportionally large: purposely distorted because the sculpture was supposed to be much higher. Probably recognize him better from a certain angle. If it were made of bronze, the support would not be needed: color and material changes the surface quality. Michelangelo marble, idea and forms of non-finito (the slaves from the papal tomb)