Amulet [67.1.1.3]: Amulet for newborn children (Iran, 18th century)

Amulet [67.1.1.3]: Amulet for newborn children (Iran, 18th century)
Originally uploaded by MagnesMuseum

An amulet, similar to a talisman (Arabic), can be any object but its most important characteristic is its alleged power to protect its owner from danger or harm, says Wikipedia.[1]

Potential amulets include gems, especially engraved gems, statues, coins, drawings, pendants, rings, plants and animals; even words in the form of a magical spell, incantation, to repel evil or bad luck.

The word "amulet" comes from the Latin amuletum; the earliest extant use of the term is in Pliny's Natural History, meaning "an object that protects a person from trouble". [2][3]

Parthenon, the temple dedicated to Athena atop the Acropolis

Parthenon
Originally uploaded by [ L a d y K ý a ]

- Kinetic sculpture
- Parthenon's pediment
- frieze
- acropolis
- Classical Greece
- 400 - 500 BCE
- Pericles, the Athenian leader
- olive tree
- democracy / slavery
- British Empire
- Lord Elgin marbles
- ethnocentrism
- Eurocentric
- amulet

The revolutionary Pharoah: Akhenaten changed Egypt's religious worship and art about 1300 BC

Akhenaten, Nefertiti and family. Altes Museum
Originally uploaded by ZeroKelvin

Akhenaten was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC.

He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism, says Wikipedia, and introducing worship centered on the Aten, which is sometimes described as monotheistic.

An early inscription likens the Aten to the sun as compared to stars, and later official language avoids calling the Aten a god, giving the solar deity a status above mere gods.

Akhenaten tried to bring about a departure from traditional religion, yet in the end it would not be accepted.

He was all but lost from history until the discovery, in the 19th century, of Amarna, the site of Akhetaten, the city he built for the Aten.

Interest in Akhenaten increased with the discovery in the Valley of the Kings, at Luxor, of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, who has been proved to be Akhenaten's son according to DNA testing in 2010.

Appropriation: borrowing and blending rather than outright stealing

After Van Eyck's Christ / mixed media by Robert Trudeau
Originally uploaded by trudeau

Artistic appropriation: to adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture.

Strategies include "re-vision, re-evaluation, variation, version, interpretation, imitation, proximation, supplement, increment, improvisation, prequel... pastiche, paraphrase, parody, homage, mimicry, shan-zhai, echo, allusion, intertextuality and karaoke." [2]

Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is the concept that the new work recontextualises whatever it borrows to create the new work.

See hip-hop music, opera, Shakespeare, etc.

Pharaoh Akhenaten: artistic rendering of the Pharaoh in incised, or sunken, relief

akhenaten
Originally uploaded by trudeau

Studies in what could be the beginnings of an interest in surgery!

Class 1 in sculpture week: incised, or sunken, relief.
Class 2: raised, or relief sculpture. Either high relief or bas (Low) relief.
Class 3: sculpture in the round, or free standing.

15 pts.

Esaay based on descriptions of 2 paintings by Basqiat and 2 by Kahlo

Basqiat
Originally uploaded by Hans Olofsson

- Principally you must describe each painting and mention its title.
- Your quotes from authorities on their work. Acc to to document.
- Briefly draw your thoughts on comparison.
- No more than one page, typed.
- Use wikipaintings.
- Colorful opening.
- Clever title.
- End of week: Sept 10
15

Jean-Michael Basquiat / East Village quiz / Riding With Death

Jean-Michael Basquiat - Riding With Death
Originally uploaded by scott3794

The East Village quiz
1. In his art, it is said that Basquiat used "appropriation." Another word for appropriation would be a) stealing b) inspiration c) raunchiness d) bold color.
2. Basquiat was amoral and ahistorical, being a superbly contemporary thinker. T / F
3. "Genius Child" is a poem by a) Maya Angelou b) Lorraine Hansberry c) Zora Neal Hurston d) Langston Hughes.
4. The med school classic, Gray's Anatomy, has origins in 19th century a) Germany b) England c) America d) France.
5. In 1981 Basquiat painted one of his most-analyzed works, "Irony of Negro __."
6. Basquiat spoke Creole, among several languages, because his father was from the impoverished Caribbean island of __ .
7. Word that means not transparent or translucent: __ .
8. Word that means to provoke, to interest, to prick: to __ .