Nature and Man in Art

BELIEFS shape art

The GIVENS shape art

Art is Us Lecture 1

What does this painting tell us?

Describe this scene.

The significance of reality

& the Law of Frontality

EGYPTIAN ART

Formal

Stylized

Inhibited

Tradition-bound

Preoccupied by

life after death

Post & Lintel Architecture

Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete

A culture in which their

art and architecture

respond to nature through

magic and ritual.

A mythical relationship with

the bull and the dictates of

nature.

Minoan

Minoan Snake Goddess Minoan Bull

Mycenaean Gold Cellature: Contrasting views of reality.

Lion Gate

Who built it?

What does the sculpture represent?

Mycenaean

Greek Geometric Minoan Octopus Vase

What do these artifacts tell us about their respective cultures?

Greek Archaic Greek Classic

The TransitionA new view of man

and his place in this

World.

To be continued…