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PublicResourceOrg — December 12, 2009 — 1986 ARC Identifier 55178 / Local Identifier 306-AAM-22.

This program commemorates the 200th Anniversary of this 19th century naturalist and artist, John James Audubon. To highlight Audubon’s development as an artist, the program uses quotations from his journals, illustrations from his original drawings and engravings, and works of art by other artists of the period.

The images of the works of art are interwoven with live motion nature photography and footage of sites significant to Audubon’s life and work. U.S. Information Agency. (1982 – 10/01/1999)

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litania przeniesienie ciala (litany of saints)

Click the arrow above to listen to ambience music while you watch this slide presentation of Rennaisance Art.

One of the more famous chapels with frescos is in Rome, Italy. It is called the Sistine Chapel. Built between 1475 and 1483 in the time of Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere. This is the Pope’s Chapel. It is a rectangular shape measuring 40.93 meters long by 13.41 meters wide, the exact dimensions of the Temple of Solomon as given in the Old Testament. It is 20.70 meters high and is roofed by a flattened barrel vault, with little side vaults over the centered windows. These vaults are what gives the roof it’s strength. The architectural plans were made by Baccio Pontelli and the construction work was supervised by Giovannino de’ Dolci. The first Mass in the Sistine Chapel was celebrated on August 9, 1483.

The wall paintings were executed by artists Pietro Perugino, Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Cosimo Rosselli, Luca Signorelli and their respective workshops, which included Pinturicchio, Piero di Cosimo and Bartolomeo della Gatta. Michelangelo Buonarroti was commissioned by Pope Julius II della Rovere in 1508 to repaint the ceiling; the work was completed between 1508 and 1512. He painted the Last Judgement2 over the altar, between 1535 and 1541, being commissioned by Pope Paul III Farnese 1

2Baigio da Cesena, a papal master of ceremonies, criticised Michelangelo’s work saying that nude figures had no place in such a sacred place, and that the paintings would be more at home in a public tavern.

Michelangelo included da Cesena in the Last Judgement as Minos, one of the three judges of the underworld. When Baigio complained to the Pope the pontiff explained that he had no jurisdiction over hell and that the portrait would have to remain. [excerpt from: http://www.italian-renaissance-art.com/Last-Judgement.html]

The Sistine Chapel paintings by Michaelangelo Buonarroti

Now you can view the paintings as if you were there:

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[1]

March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564
He passed a few weeks before his 89th Birthday.

Commonly known as Michelangelo, he was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci. To read more about him, you can visit Wikipedia’s entry or see a special site devoted only to Michaelangelo and his art.

Here is the Sistine Chapel in Italy as seen from a satellite view.

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If you would like to see more artwork in Rome, visit a tourist’s slideshow of their trip.

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http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/0-Tour.html

Impressionism

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The Blue Pond by Luis Graner Arrufi

GRANER, y Arrufi, Luis
Spanish, 1867-1922

Born in Barcelona, Spain, Luis Graner arrived in the United States in 1910 and was in New Orleans intermittently from 1914 to 1922. Reportedly he painted many scenes of rural Louisiana, which became some of his most signature work..He also was active in California where he painted scenes of La Jolla dated 1910. He opened a studio in New York City after he left New Orleans. By the time he arrived in the United States, he had an established international reputation for portraits, genre subj

from: askart.com *Note: Check back on Friday for full biography.

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Mother and Child by Mary Cassatt

Mary (Stevenson) Cassatt
American, 1844-1926

Artist. Born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Mary Cassatt was one of the leading artists in the Impressionist movement of the later part of the 1800s…. She is best known for her luminous portraits of women and children, such as The Morning Toilet (1886) and Mother Feeding a Child (1898). A less recognized legacy was her influence in getting many Americans to acquire Impressionist and other contemporary French paintings now in U.S. museums.

from: biography.com

HoC-MaryCassattLapbook.pdf

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Play in the Surf by Edward Henry Potthast

Edward Henry Potthast
American, 1857-1927
Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927 ) was an American Impressionist painter. In 1886 he departed for Paris, where he studied with Fernand Cormon. In 1895 he relocated to New York City and remained there until his death in 1927.
from: artst.org

What all of these artists have in common is they exemplify a period in art called Impessionism in which artist’s began rebelling against traditional norms and began to explore the idea of painting with light, moods, and movement.

Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism

Radicals in their time, early Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting. They began by giving colours, freely brushed, primacy over line, drawing inspiration from the work of painters such as Eugene Delacroix. They took the act of painting out of the studio and into the world.

http://www.artst.org/impressionism/

A cool way to view your photos on Flickr. TagGalaxy will make a planet out of your photos or any tag that you type into their page.

When you arrive at TagGalaxy simply type in a tag (keyword) to watch the creation of your photo galaxy. Related tags will be shown as neighboring planets. If you see a related keyword you like better, simply click on it to have it take center stage. Click on the central planet, and TagGalaxy will begin to assemble photos in the shape of a planet that are related to your tag word.

One click on a photography will enlarge it and give you the title. A second click, enlarges it further, gives you the photographer and other information about the photo if available, and shows a link to the photo’s Flickr page.

Our view of the world is sometimes changed by the way we view it, and viewing a particular thought, such as “school” in TagGalaxy can give you a much different view than perhaps you expected. I not only found children in a classic American school, I also found a young ballet dancer, Amish children leaving in a buggy, Orthodox Jewish students playing around, Middle Eastern students in the door of their classroom and much more. Expand your horizons and pick a tag to explore.

If you’d like a planet of your own Flickr photos, simply type in your Flickr screen name. Suzanne Whisler brought this to my attention and her photography can be found by typing in [necc09] without the brackets.

A Galaxy of Photography
By Cynthia Kirkeby
Jul 1, 2009, 6:35am

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world regions timeline 8,000 – 2,000 B.C.

Cupules (Fig. 1) are the earliest surviving rock art we know about in the world, but this does not necessarily make them the first rock art produced.

Cupules—- the oldest surviving rock art, ROBERT G. BEDNARIK

No doubt, more will be discovered and written about as you grow up.

Timespans for civilizations vary so greatly, that I am not going to try and bring them into this discussion. In 2004, the oldest shelter was 24,000 years old; 2000 it was 600,000 years old. I don’t understand the time references here, so you can explore the links if you like. For the sake of time, we will use the Met’s timeline for prehistoric art and begin in Australia.

Stone axes from 800,000 years ago? Some think so. “The two sides of a new hand axe from the Bose Basin of South China, made 800,000 years ago.”
Ubirr (ca. 40,000?–present) The site of Ubirr in Arnhem Land, northern Australia, Aborigine Rock Paintings.
abt. 35,000 B.C., Venus from three metres underground, within the Hohle Fels Cave in southern Germany.
Apollo 11 (ca. 25,500–23,500 B.C.) (southwestern Namibia) and Wonderwerk (ca. 8,000 B.C.) Cave Stones (Northern Cape Province of South Africa
Mal’ta (ca. 20,000 B.C.) Northeast Asia (Siberia and northeastern Asia: the Mal’ta and the Afontova Gora-Oshurkovo. )
Wadi Kubbaniya (ca. 17,000–15,000 B.C.) upper Egypt
Lascaux (ca. 15,000 B.C.) Southwestern France	Virtual Tour
Jomon Culture (ca. 10,500–ca. 300 B.C.) Fired pottery from Japan among the oldest pottery known in the world.	Jomon is Japan’s oldest culture, also known as the “tree culture”.
Eynan/Ain Mallaha (10,000–8,200 B.C.) Situated between the hills of Galilee and Lake Hula in the Levant, Israel	Natufians, settling down from hunting and gathering and began cooking their food.
Blackwater Draw (ca. 9,500–3,000 B.C.) (eastern New Mexico, U.S.) Clovis points
Fell’s Cave, Pali Aike cave, and other discoveries (9,000–8,000 B.C.) (in Patagonia – southern tip of Chile)	A great place to read current information about the Paleoindian.
Neothilic Artifacts from 10,000 BC, howerver, pictured are from 3200 to 2700 BC – China, Pottery (Yellow River basin, extending from Gansu Province in northwestern China)
Pachmari Hills (ca. 9,000–3,000 B.C.) (in the Satpura Range of Central India)	Take a virtual tour of the zoo rock cave at Bhimbetka asi.nic.in walkthrough Bhimbetka Petroglyphs Photographcs of cave painting
Jiahu (ca. 7,000–5,700 B.C.) flutes from site of Jiahu in the Yellow River basin of Henan Province, central China

Think and Do:

Visit drawing at BrainPop:



Find a rock, no bigger than your fist, to make a paperweight for your desk. Using charcoal or pastels, draw your own cave painting on it. Let me know when you are done and I will spray it with sealer so that you can use it forever.

Additional Fun Places to visit:
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, World Map, 20,000 BC – 8000 BC

Art Prehistoric Timeline