AHIS - More Baroque!
Jul. 11th, 2006 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purpleponyartWe found out what's going to be on our mid-term. Andrew is so nice. He told us what all four questions were and they were short essay ones. He also gave us the time period that the question might be about. And for the last question, we can write about one of two articles that we had to read.
We read the second article today, which was about Heinrich Wolfflin. He developed a number of principles for distinguishing Baroque art. Basically, Baroque pieces are extremely painterly, have a strong sense of lights and darks, depict a moment in time, tend to be more emotional and overall theatrical in nature. The article, by Michael Ann Holly, was hard to understand. He really had to drag answers out of the class. We just weren't getting it :-D However, it became clearer once he clarified several obtuse points made by Holly.
We finished up Italian Baroque today, and had a fun exercise ocmparing Artemisia Gentileschi's depiction of "Judith Beheading Holnofernes" with that of Caravaggio's. Even though both pieces are Baroque, Artemisia's is more Baroque - there are differences in the amount of lighting, Artemisia's Judith is far more stronger and powerful looking, while Caravaggo's kind of has a "Ew gross, I'm cutting off this guy's head" reluctance to her :-)
We read the second article today, which was about Heinrich Wolfflin. He developed a number of principles for distinguishing Baroque art. Basically, Baroque pieces are extremely painterly, have a strong sense of lights and darks, depict a moment in time, tend to be more emotional and overall theatrical in nature. The article, by Michael Ann Holly, was hard to understand. He really had to drag answers out of the class. We just weren't getting it :-D However, it became clearer once he clarified several obtuse points made by Holly.
We finished up Italian Baroque today, and had a fun exercise ocmparing Artemisia Gentileschi's depiction of "Judith Beheading Holnofernes" with that of Caravaggio's. Even though both pieces are Baroque, Artemisia's is more Baroque - there are differences in the amount of lighting, Artemisia's Judith is far more stronger and powerful looking, while Caravaggo's kind of has a "Ew gross, I'm cutting off this guy's head" reluctance to her :-)
