FA2017. FA111. ART HISTORY ONE

Student presentations This assignment allows you to demonstrate your knowledge and present it within the class setting. Similar to your essay assignments, you will create a comparative analysis between two forms.  Process Part ONE Select one image from our text (either found in the Introduction through Chapter 10 or Chapter 11 and Chapter 18) Your second image is to be found from the world of images made in the last century, between 1917 - 2017 They may be similar in subject matter or  in their formal qualities. Part TWO Making use of the formal elements and principles of design,  speak about the comparison between two forms: How are they are alike?  How are  they   different? Part THREE Organize your group into who will present first, second, third, etc.  Organize your group knowing chronology of presenters. Place all your images onto ONE THUMB DRIVE. >  It can be a PPT, or any other form you wish.  Each slide should be set up so that y

A map of the Ancient Aegean World FRESCO IMAGERY : We paint and make what we know and what we imagine. (JEP) “Young Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers” (pre-1630 BCE) is a detail of a larger wall painting from a residence in Akrotiri, a port city on the Cycladic Island of Thera. Found in a room dedicated to the initiation rites of young women, this painting is remarkable not only for its beautiful subject matter but for what it communicates about this ancient civilization.  In the painting we see a young girl in the traditional Minoan flounced dress picking saffron crocus flowers. The flowers were used for paint and seasoning, but also to alleviate menstrual cramps, indicating a possible use in women’s initiation rites. The girl is clearly on the verge of womanhood, as the regrowth of her shorn hair, a vestige of Cycladic childhood, indicates.   Besides what we learn of the rituals and day-to-day Cycladic life, we also sense a freedom and freshness to

p. 49 "This has been, perhaps, the most extraordinary day in the whole history of Egyptian excavation...The entrance today was made into the sealed chamber of (Tutankhamun's) tomb...and yet another door opened beyond that. No eyes have seen the King, but to practical certainty we know that  lies there close at hand in all his original state, undisturbed."                                                               T he Times of London ,  February 16, 1923 Tutankhamun's mask, or funerary mask of Tutankhamun, is the death mask of the 18th-dynasty Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun. It was discovered by Howard Carter in 1925 in tomb KV62 and is now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.   Found in the Valley of the Kings, after 15 years of digging! Was Carter's last expedition, sponsored by the wealthy British amateur Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon.  The tomb dates to c. 1332 - 1322 BCE The death mask is made of gold inlaid with glass and semipreciou