Explain why you selected the video you choose from the selection listed above.

For my selection of the video I chose to watch The Greek Awakening: Art From the 5th Century BC because I really love the Greek culture and I personally feel as though they were well advanced in their art making. Today there are still Ancient Greek ruins standing to this very day along with statues that are still intact (although some rough around the edges with pieces missing) that resemble the art that we see today. I love learning about their culture, Ancient Gods, and their art has always amazed me with their clean lines and embellishments that are just extremely appealing to the eye and make you take in every single little detail. 

For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

More Human than Human

- Art made us human not humans made art

-The human body inspires and manipulates us, no other image dominates our lives like this. All share do not resemble a human being but rather just the form that is made you can tell that it is a human even if legs are missing, just being a block, but have a head shape and body shape.

- North East Austria, during an excavation on August 7, 1908 a digger pulled a statute of a woman completely intact nearly 25,000 years old. This statue is the famous Venus of Willendorf which is pictured in almost every single art book.

- Culture is king, each human form statue or art work differs by culture and the final result of the works.

The Greek Awakening: Art From the 5th Century BC

- Athens is considered to be the birth place of western civilization

- During the 5th and 6th century BC a revolution happened in art, architecture, philosophy, and theater which is called the Great Awakening and is lived in the world we live today, they shaped our would today and the way we think

- Created the sense of thinking and doing in the way we live life

- The frieze told a life like story, the great awakening showing life and power with animals, humans, and Gods. This frieze was broken up and majority taken by Britain and is found in their museum today rather than in Greece. 

How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?

The video More Human Than Human relates to the text by explaining how the earliest form of art of the human form date back to the ancient cave paintings and possibly even before then. It also explains in more detail the history along with visual examples of the different types of human bodies/ forms that were found through out the past centuries along with how culture plays a huge role in the ending results of the arts that were created of the human form. The video also went into great detail about the sea findings of the statues of the human male body on how they were not the perfect human body image because of the front muscles on the chest being relaxed while their back was tense, their legs were to long (but made that way to achieve the perfect balance of the upper half of the body) and along with the missing bone along the lower back and despite how amazing and life like the statues were they were not the perfect human form. The text lacked in this information given in the videos of the two reasons I explained but they did go into detail about specifics while the videos provided multiple visual examples in-depth of different cultures of art. I feel as though the video of The Greek Awakening tied in really well with the material from the book, the book focused more on different aspects of the Greek art while the video was limited to only Athens and Olympia.

What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?

I really enjoyed watching the films. I am more of a visual learner than a reader and I really liked all the different aspects of culture and just how much of an effect it played on art making throughout the centuries. I really enjoyed learning about more of the art history and what has led art to be what it is today and to appreciate the history of art and be grateful for the creations that were accomplished in order to learn about the ancient ways of art making that could really improve art making in our technologically filled art world on what it is today, personally I feel as though are is more appreciated when it is created the ways of the ancient times where heart and soul is put into every handmade piece along with the minor personal characteristics.