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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

practice post #5- citing other sources

                                                        standing buddha offering protection


         I chose to research  the indian buddha which is at metropolitan museum of art in NYC. This is a beautful picture. The woman is protecing people fron her society or nation.
   according to the metropolitanmuseum of art history http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1979.6  . this images of the buddha's aualities of innder clam and stillness and the product of wisdom. the figure might have made of abhayamudra  gesture with his raised right is missing and dispensing fear and reassurance to the followers. "The musculature and frontal pose are reminiscent of king-warrior-savior figures of preceding centuries and are especially associated with the Kushan period." the hale emanates show the religion repersentation from both natual and supernatural.

 works citied: standing buddha offering protcetion[ india( Uttar pradesh, mathura)] (1979.6). In Heilbrunn.
timeline of art history. New York : the metropolitan museum of art, 200-.
http:// www.metmuseum .org/works-of-art/ 1979.6( october2008)

Monday, October 17, 2011

art report.

Shamanism
 This picture is about shamanism.  This picture is made of plastic and wood. The picture is kind of fogy. it has complementary color
 I like this picture because its interesting that he is trying to use his superpower and also trying to help the sick people.
The art criticism has positive and negative impect  but in this picture shaman using his superpower to aid people`s  cure.
This picute has formal theories. It has oldest style that influenced by shaman. People pay attention to the shaman and they fallow them.
The contectual theories shown their  culture belief system and their religious and  it doesn’t have any political and economic issue.
It does descired the expressive theories because of their sickness

Shamanism: prevalent in northern asia and much of central asia. Shamanish is based on the idea that certain individuals by going into a temporary state of trance, can communicate with the supernatural. Anyone in the group may become a shaman. Shaman world is dangerous between the natural and supernatural  obscure. For some people dreams are dangerous, they don’t know whether the spirit in dreams  are good or evil. 
Shamans and christianity
Shamanism is a technique of religion rather than a religion itself. Unlike a priest the shaman uses individual powers to communicate with supernatural spirits ratherderiving power from establish code of belief.there is a little conflict between indigeous beliefs in the world spirits and the ability of shamans to reach them. Shamans become powerful when they change their sex, fly travel far afield and turn into animals.




The upper palaeolithis
The picture is about how early people hunt and gather food together with small group. I like this picture very much. These people in the picture are made of plastic and the tress too. In the atmosphere perspective the illusion of depth is created by changing color. It has complementary color and it also has iconography that shown on the picture.
The palaeolithic also call the Old Stone Age.  During The upper Paleolithic period people had to move one place to another.  They couldn’t settle in one place because of food. They used to make small grouped in a societies such as band and subsisted by gathering plants and hunting for wild animals. The women discovered the seeds by walking.  First they were walking and saw small seeds on ground but they didn’t care about it. Then few days later they were walking by the same place and saw the plant were growing so they decided to stay in one place and to plant seeds and get food from plants.  The Paleolithic also characterized by the use of knapped stone tool. They also adapted for use as tools like leather and vegetable fibers.

  I left really excited when I visited the museum and seen these wonderful people and their work that they had done. These were the most incredible pictures, painting and how it’s shown them in museum. There were some pictures that I dislike the craniums. They were kind of scary.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

practice post #4 - Evaluting Art



aritis: vincent Van Gogh


 
Formal Evaluation: vincent  was dutch post- impressionist printer. he used vivd colors and emotional impact.
contextual evalution: vincent painted in holland. he influenced by his friend. this paintng of village doesn't have any politica or econoic connection.
Expressive Evalution: vincent uses bright colors to hishlight the beatutiful mountain  feld and the small houses in the village. he mostly love his village in this painted scense.