How Art Made the World

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 434.

1. The functions of images. – Image dominate our lives, telling us what to think and how to feel

2. What image is dominant among many others in art – image of human body

3.What is the first known image of a human body – Venus of Willendorf

4. Where is the image kept now – Willendorf

5. What does Venus of Willendorf symbolize? – fertility, which would explain the exaggeration of female anatomy

6. Who offered the hypothesis explaining the unrealistic image of Venus? – Neuroscientist Ramachandran

7. The result of experiment with the seagulls - Peak shift is fundamental in understanding why we prefer exaggerated images of the human body.

8. What features of nomadic images didn't survive till the Great Civilization of the Middle East – Big Shapes

9. The principle trait of Egyptian art – images were schematic and conceptual. Their schematic and conceptual image of the body mapped within a grid system.

10. The principle of creating figures in Ancient Egypt – Proportional size and grid system

11. The specific of Ancient Greek view on human body – healthy and beautiful body is the symbol of a GODS and GODESSES)

12. The true realistic image – Like Kritian Boy. They stopped this realism cause it was too real for some reason that they were dissatisfied with it.

13. Art revolution created by Ancient Greek artists – They had to interesting things with the human forms, such as distorting in lawful, ways in order to exaggerate the brain's aesthetic response to the body

14.Who made the breakthrough and in what way – Sculptor Polyclitus developed a breakthrough technic that allowed sculptures to be created showing the physical potential of the body

15.Why do not we depict reality realistically? – Humans don't really like reality. We prefer exaggerate more human than human.