1. Museum Trip 1: California Museum, overview notes
I chose the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, since I have been there and am a member there. The museum is vast and broad, with many different types of art from various eras and of various media. There are extensive collections of international artists, but most interesting to me is the modern art. They have Kandinsky, a German Expressionist, on display, as well as Rene Magritte, Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Also notable are the large installations all over the buildings. I really enjoy the collection of Japanese art as well...there are prints and sculptures. I especially like Nakabayashi Chikuto's Plum Branch.
2. Museum Trip:
One item I liked was Reni's Bacchus and Ariadne, a beautiful Renaissance depiction of classical mythology. I most love the shades of blue which comprise the backdrop of the oft-depicted scene. Ariadne helped Theseus overcome the Minotaur, but was abandoned on the
3. Museum Trip 2: Outside CA Museum, overview notes
I chose for this museum "visit" the Metropolitan Museum of Art, because I visited it briefly about a year ago during a stop-over in
4. Museum Trip: Outside CA Museum, specific item notes.
The piece I enjoyed seeing the most was the Portrait of the Boy Eutyches, a portrait of a young man from Roman Egypt. It was made using an encaustic technique, which was very popular and widely used at the time, although it is no longer known exactly how it was done. It's very life-like...the young man seems like he's about to open his mouth and speak to you. Another incredible aspect of this work is the vivacity of the color. The face is not perfectly symmetrical; it's as if the boy's head is turned but the perspective is still not quite right.
5. Diverse Theoretical Frameworks in the Humanities
See notes in blog post here.
6.
Artwork Being Critiqued: Bacchus and Ariadne
Artist: Guido Reni
l. What stands out the most when you first see it?
The blue sky and ocean in the background.
2. How come you notice the thing you mention in number 1?
I take notice of the sky and its various shades in real life, so the depiction of the sky so beautifully in this piece of art struck me.
3. As you keep looking, what else seems important?
The expressions on the faces of the subjects.
4. How come the thing you mention in number 3 seem important?
There seems to be some disagreement, something that isn't allowing the two of them to agree or be in harmony, even though their body language seems to be positive.
5. How has contrast been used?
The blue of the sky and ocean contrasts with the color of their skin, and the dark rocks in contrast with the sky frame the scene of the two people.
6. What leads your eye around from place to place?
The positioning and movement of their bodies. There is s circular movement between their two bodies, drawing the eye from his face to hers as he gazes at her, to her reclining body (emphasized by the contrasted cloths on which she lays) towards her feet, then back up his body (again emphasized by a contrasted cloth) to his face.
7. What tells you about the style used by this artist?
The lines, the softness, the vibrancy of colors.
8. What seems to be hiding in this composition? How come?
.This painting has much less detail than its more famous forebear, and there is a lot of detail from the myth which is not depicted. If you looked closely, you can see the halo of stars in the sky directly above Ariadne's head, and small sailboats to the right of her face.
9. Imagine the feelings and meanings this artwork represents? Write a few notes about them here.
A relationship that is loving but fraught with tension and disagreement, domination of one over another, expression of basic human truths and experiences, frustration.
10. What titles could you give this artwork?
"Lovers?", 'The distance between yes and no"
11. What other things interest you about this artwork?
.His confident yet acquiescent stance, the shape of the draperies on the rocks, the general lack of setting or place.
12. List one question that you would ask the artist if you could.
"If you could put a speech bubble in the piece, what would it say and who would be saying it?"
7.
Artwork Being Critiqued: Portrait of the Boy Eutyches
Artist: Unknown
l. What stands out the most when you first see it?
The boy’s eyes
2. How come you notice the thing you mention in number 1?
They are deep and strong, and yet not exactly perfectly symmetrical.
3. As you keep looking, what else seems important?
The shading around his face – it seems to shine a bit, and the shadow on the neck gives perspective.
4. How come the thing you mention in number 3 seems important?
It contributes to the life-likeness of the piece. It is a realistic portrait, with various textures and colors and shapes used to depict the person accurately.
5. How has contrast been used?
The boy’s coloring provides automatic contrast, with dark hair, eyes, and eyebrows set against his olive skin. The background is similar in color to his skin and so his hair creates a frame for the rest of his face, and his eyebrows direct the viewer’s gaze to his own eyes.
6. What leads your eye around from place to place?
The life-likeness of it all. The shading and contrast, as I said before, move the viewer’s gaze about the piece, and the viewer wants to look around and see how lifelike it really is.
7. What tells you about the style used by this artist?
The color and shading, the method and material, the symmetry and slight variations of it.
8. What seems to be hiding in this composition? How come?
There is no context or attributes to tell about the person. The idea, I think, is to merely depict the face as a marker of identity, and those who had the portrait and saw it knew who it was without any other identifying markers.
9. Imagine the feelings and meanings this artwork represents? Write a few notes about them here.
Realism, memory, desire for relationship and continuity of that relationship, adolescence, aging and growth, the dispensation of wealth.
10. What titles could you give this artwork?
“Young man of
11. What other things interest you about this artwork?
The typicalness of the portrait – how many others are done in this same style? It’s very ordinary, I think. The way that it is linked to a particular person in a particular time and cultural context…it’s very straightforward and I wonder how that relates to cultural context.
12. List one question that you would ask the artist if you could.
“How often are you satisfied with your portraits?”
8. Review 10
(Kristine)
4.) What kind of criticism has Humanities accused with in regards to the modern curricla?
A. Unscientific and changing contextual meaning. *
B. Subject areas don't encompass all aspects of culture.
C. False representation of factual evidence based on history.
D. Studies and findings are too concrete for further analysis.
(Pui-Yin)
Researchers in the humanities have developed numerous large and small scale digital corpora, such as digitized collections of historical texts, along with the digital tools and methods to analyse them. Their aim is both to uncover new knowledge about corpora and to visualize research data in new and revealing ways. The field where much of this activity occurs is called the _________.
a. digital humanities*
b. technological humanities
c. visual humanities
(Cassandra)
4. A central justification for the Humanities has been that it aids and encourages ____________.
*A.self-reflection
B.self-esteem
C.self-conscious
D.self-assertion
E.self-admiring
(Maria)
Q.1 Humanities are academic disciplines which study?
a. How humans interact with each other.
b. Global issues
c. Human conditions that include customs, languages and music
d. Literature
e. Human conditions, using methods that are primary analytic, critical, or speculative *
(Okamh)
4) History is:
Social gatherings of the past
Information from the past*
Great movements that change society
Knowledge of the world
Philosophy of life
(Penny)
What nationality was Paulo Freire?
a. French
b. Portuguese
c. Latin
d. Brazilian*
e. English
(Natalie)
2) What does an oppressor use to preserve a profitable situation?
a) Oppression
b) Humanitarianism*
c) Communication
d) problem-posing
e) Education
(Carrie)
8. But almost always, _______________________, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, ______________________, or "sub-oppressors." a. during dehumanization, idealize their oppressors,
b. during the initial stage of the struggle, tend themselves to become oppressors*
c. after struggling, tend themselves to become oppressors *
d. after struggling, tend to love their oppressors,
e. during failure, cries for freedom from the oppressors,
(Renee)
4. Violence is initiated by those who...
A. oppress
B. exploit,
C. fail to recognize others as persons
D. all of the above *
(Summer)
9. Which of the following is one of the two stages that the banking concept of education distinguishes in the action of the educator as according to Freire?
A. Students are not required to know, but only to memorize the contents stated by the teacher **
B. The students are taught irrelevant information
C. The teacher is not taking into consideration the different learning techniques of all his student, thus oppressing his students
D. The students remain uninterested in what the teacher has to say as it has no relevancy to their live
E. The teacher is not making a connection to humanity
9. Create one sample of dialogue using structure.
When I researched Paulo Friere’s definition of oppression, I found that it had less to do with finances and economic situation, and was tied instead to how different people accessed different knowledge and how that knowledge defined humanity. Likewise, I noticed that Summer identified oppression as “any action which prevents individuals, or the ‘oppressed’, from achieving their own personal goals and dreams. This refers to humanity and liberation rather than finances.” (Source) I wonder if this topic we researched would have deep resonances with liberation theology in a more historical way, in that these ideas might be traced throughout theology in ancient practice from the beginnings of the Christian faith to today.
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