1.
Explain why you selected the video you choose from the selection listed above.
I
selected Cairo Museum because of
all the choices it seemed the most interesting, as I feel I’ve read about
Greeks and Romans and the Middle Ages so many times but only so much on Egypt. I
was very interested in what it was going to show me.
2.
For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
In
More Human Than Human, this
video tells us all about how humans appear in art. It showed how they used to
make completely unrealistic examples of the human form in art, and they talked
about how they were trying to exaggerate the parts and features they found
perfect on humans – like in Greek art how the more perfect the body was the
more godlike it was so humans were depicted with perfect bodies. To me it mirrors
society today where photoshopped photos of women and men with perfect bodies
are plastered all around it. It warps our perception of reality and what is
actually real and beautiful – which I think was the message of the video. In
the Cairo Museum video, it talked all about different artifacts from many different
places shown in the museum. It shows us about the background of the exhibit and
all the different, ancient artifacts it holds – and how many it holds, as there’s
so many they can’t display all of them at once.
3.
How do the videos relate to the readings in the text? 4. What is your opinion of
the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art
concepts?
I
think as usual the videos build off our readings. It brings to life the things
read about and brings more of a visual to the things discussed. I think the
videos were pretty interesting, and I really liked the Ciaro Museum video as it
was particularly interesting to look at all the different artifacts and marvel
at how long they’ve been there or how little we may even still know about them.
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