Kimberlin Gomez
03/8/2020
Art
Module #6
Beyond the classical Byzantine and later Greek art
1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
The main concepts of this video was the rise of Greek art along with the rise of the christiany church. Art was focused on gods, religion and beliefs.
2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the OER Content?
This video relates to the OER content because just like the OER content, this video emphasizes the importance of aesthetics and how it changed the art world.
3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the themes/topics for this week?
I believe they add depth to the understanding of the themes and topics for this week because it provides a lot of background information which leads to what we are learning. So for example the video was talking about art before the rise of Christianity, and how it changed after the rise of christianity. Having the context is important.
The Greek awakening : Art from the 5th century BC
1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
In this video, art from 500bc was discussed. It was also discussed the new developments and “art rules” that Greek artists and architecture have made. The importance of Greek art is discussed and how their art further developed the artistic world.
2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the OER Content?
This video relates to the readings in the OER content, by further discussing influential sculptures created by the Greeks and how these sculptures influenced the creation of the perfect image.
3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the themes/topics for this week?
This video added depth to my understanding because now I understand how much the Greeks actually influenced the art sculpting world. The concept of athletic, perfect individuals which are not realistic came from Greek culture. It can be said that our version of what a perfect body is, is because of Greek sculpting.
The measure of all things : Greek art and the human figure
1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
This video discusses the art that the Greeks created in the 5Bc and how art moved to being centered about the human body. Greeks saw the human body as the most beautiful piece of art.
2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the OER Content?
This video relates to the OER content because in this video, the perfection of the body was discussed and how what we believe is to be perfection in the body is actually unrealistic, and never going to happen naturally. The perception of the perfect body, is incredibly muscular, tall, and actually unproportionate.
3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the themes/topics for this week?
This video added to the depth of my understanding of the perfect form that we still believe is the perfect body. Ever since the human body was started to be viewed as a form of art we created this unrealistic perspective of what beautiful is and that the reason why we are so self conscious with our own bodies. Because our bodies are going to look like the perceptions and like the picture we have mentally.
