module 8, video review

1. Explain why you selected the video you choose from the selection listed above.

I choose the video, the measure of all things: Greek art and the human figure, because it caught my attention immediately. The title about human figure and art was what did it for me. After watching the video I was very intrigued through the full video. It was very interesting and eye opening for me, for this people to understand things back in B.C that is still sometimes tough for people to grasp today.  

2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

The Measure of All Things: Greek Art and the Human Figure

- All about the human body, obsessed with it
- 3000 BC when it started
- inspired 20th century artists -picasso
- used marble
- mostly women sculptures, connected with fertility
-  6th century started to produce realism, in 3-d, movement
- during point in western art(revolution)
- sole and inner beauty
- statutes that actually make you think they move
- all greek stone in buildings/sculptures were painted, usually in bright colors
- paintings are missing but lots of pottery, depicting everyday life in greece
- Greek dominant culture of the mediterranean, spread across the whole world then

More human than human

- all images/sculptures/paintings etc.  of the body are unrealistic
- north east Austria, statue of woman found, made 25,000 years ago, barely 10cm high, first clue of why world is dominated by unrealistic images of the body.

- exaggerating parts of the body because thats what was liked back then (venus figure)

- Thousands of images of the body in the tomb, of ramesses the 6th

- exaggerating the body was not part of art anymore in Egyptian art
- Egyptian style of creating the image of people/body never changed through generations and centuries
- Grind style is what everyone used in Egyptian style of creating pictures of people/body  and everything of every picture had to be the same and done with precision

- they wanted images of the body to last forever
- culture, society is how we depict the body
- culture is king when depicting the body
- in greece the better body you had the more you were like a god, gods took human form

3. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
Both the readings in the text and the videos relate through how art came out through the image of the body. Each part of the world back then depicted the body in different ways, some inspired by others but with different intentions. The book and the videos go on about how the history of this images back out, also what inspired these images and sculptures, mainly culture.

4. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?

I enjoyed both films, I also I watched other one just based on curiosity. These films reiterated what the text had already said but also gave a further depth of understanding about the history of how the image of the body was depicted and also a better understand of how culture had a major impact on the image of the body. Each country, area had a different understand and image of the body based on their society, culture and their beliefs.