CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN ART

Greek artists tried to render human forms as realistic as possible during the early fifth century. Sculptures produced at that time show the model posing in a relax way, with one leg or shoulder slightly shifted so they do not look stiff.

Later on, the artists also attempted to depict the emotions of their subject, as well as the age of their body. Then the art transformed into more idealized realism. This means that they create an image of what is ideal, like a normal size of a head, when in reality that is not the case. The face was also depicted as calm.

The old techniques entail artists to do their work straight on a stone. But because they could not achieve realism through that, the use of modelling technique emerged. They used clay on armatures before they copy into stone.

Some of the classical arts include the Bronze Zeus from Cape Artemision, Youth (the ‘Kritian Boy) from Athens Acropolis, and Metope from the temple of Zeus, Olympia.

THE COLOSSEUM

One of the structural arts that had a big role in the ancient period is the Colosseum. It is a massive stone amphitheater commissioned by Emperor Vespasian of the Flavian dynasty as a gift to the Roman people. The structure’s official name was Flavian Amphitheater, which hosted gladiatorial combats and wild animal fights.

Made of stone and concrete, the three-story Colosseum can sit 50,000 audiences. It was used for four hundred years before it fell into neglect, abandoned and destroyed over time.

Today, while two-thirds of the Colosseum had been destroyed by weather, neglect, vandalism, etc., the structure is a popular tourist destination. There were restorations efforts initiated in the 1990s and the following years.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Renaissance art refers to the painting, sculpture and decorative arts that were produced during the Renaissance period. Its root can be traced back in Italy.

During that time, there was a great interest in rendering the natural world into arts such as painting, sculptures and decorative pieces. At the height of the period, there were three names that made it big in Renaissance art—Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo Buonarroti and Raphael Sanzio.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa became the most famous painting up until today. Michaelangelo is known for his ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, and Raphael’s Madonnas are still popular.

THE MONA LISA

Mona Lisa is dubbed as the world’s most famous painting, surrounded by mysteries and theories. The painting is a work of Leonardo da Vinci between 1503 and 1506, up until 1517. It was a small portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. Today, the painting is displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris, which has been its home since 1797.

Leonardo da Vince was not the best painter during his time, and yet the Mona Lisa painting has been so popular. One of the things that made it so famous is the smile of the subject. It is often described as enigmatic, so mysterious that it has generated lots of theories and legends. Add that to her beauty and the use of the background, which is said to have changed art forever.

Another notable thing about the Mona Lisa painting is the lack of eyebrows, which resulted in speculations that da Vinci was not able to finish the artwork. Some say that it was done while other say it was abandoned. There were many studies and research already done to answer the mysteries of the painting. Still, mysteries remain and those make the painting even more famous.

Up up and away

We are now in the age of possibilities that we had yesterday. When ideas become real. Age of generation X, we’re technology occupies larger part in almost kind of machine were manipulating regularly. Today even small children know how to use a cell phone and computer before going to school and learned. Almost everything now has instruction on how to prepare, create and produce by the assistance of countless applications.

Development begins rapidly like a running water in the falls we never know when will ends. An instinct that we cannot prevent from happening. The passion of doing things you desire and believe. This is a real understanding of how technology can control people that can give them an extraordinary vision of what available potential is waiting.

We cannot control changes but we can control things before unexpected can happens.  We should remember that humans are the ones who created technology, so don’t let technology destroy humanity.

One Semester Down The AB MMA

I realized that there is that kind of expectation attached to what course you are taking. As an AB Multimedia Arts student, I realized that people tend to expect that you are good in arts and you already know a lot about multimedia programs and software and so on. When you are in your junior or senior year, I guess that would be fine, as you should have already been taught a lot and learned a lot about your degree by then.

In my case, I am only almost one semester down the AB MMA course. I took this course, honestly, to learn this field, only having a little knowledge about it. One semester and I don’t think I already meet the usual expectations people have on me as an MMA major. But that’s fine, I am taking it up as a challenge and I hope to be able to really be proud that I am an AB MMA student and confident enough with the kind of skills I should have.

As I adjust to that, I also hope that teachers will not fall short of teaching us the skills that we need just because they assume that we already have or we should have them in the first place. School, after all, is where we are educated and where we seek learning. I still have about three years to the end of the course, so I am looking forward to a lot of that learning

Happy Feet

Many people love to travel now and technology helps us to make it easy. If you’re looking to a place you want to book all you need to do is use the internet, browse their website check the facility and everything you need to inquire is already included and if you’re lucky different promos are waiting for you. Reservation is not difficult through technology that making it reaching hand. Using cell phones, laptop and computer assist us in the easiest way to find any places we want to go.

All travelers who are a first time in the place experienced to get lost but now we don’t need to worry because of many different applications now that can help us to find the location through the use of the internet or without. We can check the status of the weather or I can say information is fast and efficient today because of the technology.

If you are a selfie lover you don’t need to have a DSLR camera to have a good quality image. Cell phones now have the high-tech quality resolution that can produce an image like it came from a professional photographer.