ARTH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night, Codex Mendoza
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A sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte (1884-6: pointillism. Is the technique developed in the 1880s of painting with dots of pure color which then blend at a certain distance: vincent van gogh. Young ladies looking at japanese objects (1869: ukiyo-e ( pictures of the floating world )- the name given to paintings and prints primarily depicting the transitory world of the licensed pleasure quarters(yoshiwara) of. Tenochtitlan: codex mendoza, model of the sacred precinct in tenochtitlan. Dedicated to huitzilopochtli (war god) and tlaloc (rain god: templo mayor. 90 feet high and covered in stucco. Symbolized mexican concept of burnt water (two gods: the coyolxauhqui stone. Serpent belt with skull attached on the back. Shown naked with sagging breasts and stretched belly to show she was once a mother. Decapitated and dismembered; organized in pin wheel shape. Coatcoitla (mother); pregnant: the goddess coatlicue, feather headdress of moctezuma. Feather work was one of the glories.
