Unit # 3: Artist as Scientist Announcements: Midterm handed out next Thursday Review that day Class website is up and running Next week assignment folder update will be posted Wrap up Unit 2 Earth map update Unit 3 Lecture: Classic Period The rise of the great civilizations Chinese Landscape Painting video The Art Chinese Painting video worksheet Middle ages- The rise of organized religion
Unit 2 Lecture concepts Neolithic Era why is it important? Environmental changes major event that occurred environmental conditions Rise of agriculture- 6 areas agriculture arose common characteristics of these areas 3 early agricultural methodscharact. and groups nomadic past., shifting agric and settled agric.
Unit #2: Lecture terms nomadic pastoralists subsistence Fertile Crescent sustainability shifting agriculture
Unit 2 activities Connections concept map Neolithic era Life ways concept map : Hunter/gatherers Shifting agriculture Nomadic pastoralists Early settled agriculture Research and board work notes- Indigenous Group Earth map
Unit 2 Earth Map update: 2a. Fertile Crescent, Middle East 2d. Egypt, North Africa 2b. Yangtze River Valley, China 2e. Peru, South America 2c. Macedonia, Europe 2F. Yucatan, Central America
Unit 3: Artist as Scientist
Unit 3 Lecture Concepts Classic Period: The rise of the great civilizations What is a civilization? Chinese Landscape Painting Characteristics Philosophy and process Renaissance: Rise of the scientific method Innovative techniques and materials Leonardo da Vinci the Renaissance Man Maria Sibylla Merian 1 st lady of Natural History Her life and work
Unit 3 Activities Connections Concept Map Classic period Middle ages Renaissance Video worksheet Chinese landscape painting Earth map update On campus art assignment
Unit 3 terms Silk road Renaissance fresco cabinet of curiosities spontaneous generation Surinam, S. America
Life way shift CCM2A. Neolithic era 11,500 3,000 years ago Beginnings of agriculture Shifting ag. in forested areas Subsistence agriculture Primarily H/G and nomadic pastoralists Bone, stone and wood Energy human and animal Subsistence CCM3A. Classic period 3,000 1100 years ago Rise of the great civilizations Primarily Settled agriculture metal, bone, wood and stone Energy animal power Trade and creation of surplus Economic specializationmovement away from subsistence Cast systems
Cultural impacts of settled agriculture Nature of work changed: more labor intensive Permitted and required an increase in population Redefined gender relations and position Specialization of labor forceclass systems arose upper classes- increase in leisure time Nature of land ownership changed feudal system etc.
What is a Civilization? cities- large urban populations in one area facilitate cultural exchange Separation between rural and urban areas trade and specialization rise of craftsmen & merchant classes surplus of resources formal political statesleadership with structure and bureaucracy Formal written languageenabled innovation and communication
Ancient Greece and Western Civilization 2800 - ~1300 ya --at it s height Nomadic past. Settled ag. Beginning of Western civilization. Birth of advanced abstract thought: philosophy, literature, art, politics and democracy Humanism- earth was created for civilized humans Birth of the scientific method Sought to answer questions about the world. Being civilized = elevated above uncivilized societies taming nature, controlling physical environment
CCM3B. Art of Classic Civilizations Art became socially, politically, spiritually and culturally important Sculpture, architecture, murals etc. anthropomorphic figures persisted Animals represented deities symbolic Mythical creatures depicted accurate depictions but with unrealistic features Chimera, Etruscan Horus, god of Kings, Egypt Chinese Landscape painting
CCM3C. Attitude towards nature: Classic Period class differences Rural vs. urban Spiritualityabstract otherworldly Polytheismmultiple gods and goddesses Role of Natureplants/animals/elements became tools of the God s - symbols Superiority to nature began civilized humans tamed the wilderness- separation from nature.
Chinese Landscape painting 907 1127 AD Great Age of Chinese Landscape Painting
Chinese Landscape painting Oldest continuous painting tradition in the worldas early as 450 BC One of the Earliest agricultural traditions Relying on changes of weather and seasons Struggles with nature reverence Seek attunement with nature Culturally isolated surrounded by less advanced nomadic tribes Persistent style passed from generation to generation virtually unchanged for 100 s of years. A strong independent and self generating tradition Silk road 220 BC earliest contact between East and West- Chinese cultures resistant Wintry Forest - Li Cheng 919-967
Taoist philosophy: Nature and humanity are one. Never been in the direct service of religion except for the earliest tomb paintings. Characteristics: Majestic landscapes with water and mountains from a great distance Chinese Landscape painting monochromatic black and white Negative space is just as important as positive space A different journey taken with each view Not a replication of a landscape but an impression. Nine Pearly Peaks - Huang Gong Wang 1269-1354
Chinese Landscape painting Captures a moment in time transience fact of life that everything is temporary and fleeting First focus is the dense detailed areas to the sparse Composition moves the viewers eye into the distance "the ideal painting is just a piece of white paper, the viewer can visualize a new painting every day.
Chinese Landscape painting Materials: Ground- silk 1482 BC rice paper- 1 st c. AD Brush Neolithic era-pottery Ink 3500 ya Pine soot bound by glue into cakes Traditionally black Seals: stamps made of carved stone Identify the owner Later became a medium of expression for the owner emotions the image gave etc. Later became an offense to the piece Format: Screens Fans Hanging and hand scrolls
Chinese Landscape painting Process: Beginners learn by replicating masters Adhering to strict conventions Learn calligraphy first to master the control and movements. Masters would sign work that they approved of.
Chinese Landscape painting Video worksheet http://www.youtube.c om/playlist?list=plm 4S2hGZDSE73458zM fiiweqr7g9bqjwc Strolling by the Sea - Tang Yin 1470-1524