ART HISTORY OF THE CINEMA MIDTERM REVIEW MATERIALS~ From Module 1 to 10.

Political structure of city states in Greece soon after 700 BC HE PERIOD AFTER 700 BC WITNESSED THE SLOW GROWTH OF WHAT WE CALL THE CITY STATE IN GREECE, AT FIRST UNDER A THE PEAK OF THE ATHE NIAN DEMOCRACY CAME UNDER PERICLES WHO WAS ATHENS’ LEADER FROM 461 TO 428 BC WHEN HE DIED OF THE PLAGUE DEVASTATING THE CITY. The Parthenon on the Acropolis HE CROWNING JEWEL OF THE ACROPOLIS WAS PERICLES’ PARTHENON WITH SUPERVISING ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER PHIDIAS Plan of the Parthenon THE PARTHENON WAS MADE IN THE DORIC STYLE WITH RATHER PLAIN COLUMNS IN THE FRONT ABOVE WHICH WAS AN ARCHITRAVE AND ABOVE THAT VERTICALLY GROOVE ST. SERNIN, TOULOUSE, FRANCE 1070-1120 AND THE MAIN FEATURES OF ROMANESQUE CHURCH STYLE The Gothic Period 1200-1400 A.D. Rise of HUMANISM • Growth of Cities and Universities • The Franciscans – St. Francis of Assisi 1181- 1226 A.D. • Rise of Gothic architecture Romanesque-Gothic Resurrector of knowledge of Greece and Rome Raphael, Madonna of the Goldfinch, with Infant Jesus and John the Baptist 1507 Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Development of perspective in painting Order, Reason, Proportion, Geometric, stately, clear lighting, calm, monumental Leonarda Da Vinci, Mona Lisa 1503- 1505 Artemisia Gentileschi- Judith Slaying Holofernes 1620 ART MOVEMENT OF THE 18TH CENTURY ESPECIALLY IN FRANCE AND AUSTRIA KNOWN AS THE ROCOCO The Age of Romanticism 1750-1900 Revival of Earlier Styles Taste for the Exotic and Ancient Romanesque and Gothic mixed up together Fascination for the Middle Ages PRE-RAPHAELITES: 1850s- 1890s Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Helen of Troy 1863, Hamburg Palmer Cox 1840-1924 Auguste and Louis Lumiere Auguste and Louis Lumiere Georges Melies Innovations Double exposure Multiple exposures Stop motion Fadeouts Dissolves Trapdoors, Smoke Bombs Painted Cardboard Sets Sex in the Cinema Trip to the Moon 1902 Influence of sci fi novels of Jules Verne, 1860s-1870s : From the Earth to the Moon • The Mysterious Island, • Around the World in 80 Days Stop-motion Cinematography Gustave Courbet Man of the people Anti-Church bureaucracy Heroism of the Common Man Heroic Materialism Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers 1849, Dresden Edvard Munch, The Scream 1893 Distortion, exaggeration Anguish, neuroses, fear Psychic Acoustics and Anguish Existential loneliness Disorienting diagonal Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1906 Architecture of color Cubism – prismatic reordering of reality Rethink art – return to the African primitive Anti-Academic Feininger, Cycle Race 1912 A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF EXPRESSIONIST-CUBISM BY FEININGER IS HIS BICYCLE RACE DONE IN 1912. IT HAS THE RAW POWER OF EXPRESSIONISM The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1919: Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann Der Sturm Expressionist-Cubism Hermann Warm Walter Reimann Puppet human Disorienting diagonal Emotional distortion Caligari, The Prison Sequence Expressionist-Cubism IN THE DEPTH OF THE GERMAN DEPRESSION THE VIENNESE AUSTRIAN DIRECTOR FRITZ LANG AND HIS THEN WIFE THEA VON HARBOU COOKED UP A SPE Metropolis 1926 Tired Worker Maria and the Workers Need for Messiah to deliver the workers Somnambulists parallel Caligari film Science and tyrants bring evil Greed and 7 Deadly Sins- dehumanizing • Wrath • Greed • Sloth • Pride • Lust • Envy • Gluttony Moloch, The Power Plant Moloch Sequence Carthage, Phoenician Settlement Ur Ziggurat in Iraq 2100 B.C Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) Catacombs in Rome Importance of the Catacombs as core Religious center of Metropolis