AHS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Faith Ringgold, Drollerie, Mnemonic
7 Oct 2016
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Art history notes 9/28: media and processes: the tradition of craft 2; visual communication. Exekias (potter painter), black figure amphorea with achilles and ajax playing dice: used for storage (olive oil, grain, water, mythological narrative, top and bottom thrown separately. Maria martinez: wife, primary person responsible for making native art at a high form, make the pots. Coiled and burnished earthenware: made from coiling, black pottery with glossy and matte black. Stoneware with slip and glaze: slab formation, glazes them with earth tones, no painting. Rose window and lancets north transept, 13th century/ chartres cathedral, france: height and light, didactic images that tell a story, created by artisans, utilitarian types of arts, crafts. Dale chihuly, fiori di como, handblown glass and steel: still alive, produces so much work-doesn"t do very much work himself. He designs and has other people to blow glass for him.
