More Human Than Human
The major thing that I learned from this video is how no matter how developed society has gotten from the Ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians and many other societies, we all have some sort of idealized version of the human body, and it is portrayed in that idealized way in art. It is very interesting to see how no matter how the times have changed, some things that we do stay the same. This video relates to the reading in the text because many of the statues used as example were in the textbook as examples of the art of those times as well. I never really thought about how societies idealize the human body and like I said before, I found it really interesting how back then they were portraying idealized forms of the human body, what they thought was attractive, and how it is so similar to nowadays how the image of the "perfect" body is portrayed by society through the media and art as well.
Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany
I chose this video because for some reason the plague has always fascinated me in a weird way and the title caught my eye. I learned that the plague hit Siena and Florence so hard and fast that the people did not see it coming, and that when they emerged from this gruesome tragedy, their outlook had completely changed, including the way they looked at/created art. Their artwork depicted more gruesome scenes, scenes of hell, something they most certainly felt they were in during the black plague. This video relates to the reading in the text because when the book talks about realism, I realized that an artwork from this time might look like it was just a gruesome painting out of someone's head when it realy was someone's reality. I think this film helped me realize how a tragedy can change peoples perspectives so much that it completley changes the content of their artwork prior to the event.
A World Inscribed: The Illuminated Manuscript
I chose this video because my best friend had do do an art exhibit and her first art show was Illuminated Manuscripts at the Karples Museum on Elmwood. I thought it would be interesting to learn more about it. From this video I learned while illuminated manuscripts can be very beautiful pieces of art, they are extremely labor intensive, especially because someone might be making dozens and dozens of copies of one page, and that kind of repetitious work, bent over and detailing the paper can really take a toll on someone. When literacy started becoming the norm, this just made even more work for the illuminators and scribes. The invention of the printing press and moveable type took the jobs from the scribes and illuminators. This only makes it easier for people to obtain copies of a text, but the art of an illuminated manuscript can not be copied by the printing press and owning one of these artworks is a privelage. I thought this film did a great job of describing the long process of creating one of these manuscripts.
Cairo Museum
I chose this video because I thought it would be interesting to see this museum! I learned that like many other museums, they have many many more pieces than they can display at one time and more than half of the pieces they own are in storage. The museum houses some of the most interesting and beautiful and very old relics of the past. Although they probably have an inventory of every piece in there in storage, a piece may be forgotten about until the curator rediscovers it. This vidoe relates to the study of ancient Egypt in the book because most of the artifacts in here are Egyptian. I think this was a good video because it gave me a look of what the museum had to offer and made me think it would be a fascinating and great destination to visit one day
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