World Views: Creativity and the Artist's Life Winter 2023
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Artists have represented the human body since the very beginning of human culture. You can learn a lot about a culture's values and ideas by looking at their art!
Q. Into Ancient Greece or Egypt? Curious about the Michelangelo or Leonardo? The great painters of the 19th Century? The birth of photography? Puzzled by the art being made now? A. This is the course for you! Know more about a lot of things! Try out artistic techniques! |
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TOPICS WE ARE STUDYING:
Can we reliably interpret images from other times and cultures?
Here are some examples which show that a deeper, background knowledge of an era can help prevent anachronistic readings.
Some terms from the course
iconography, art history, symbolism, Annunciation, paleolithic, neolithic, pareidolia, BCE, CE, history vs. prehistory, nomadic, sedentary, coprolite, Venus, Anno Domini, Mesopotamia, fertile crescent, pictograph,