Two Dimensional Media having the dimensions of height
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Two Dimensional Media: having the dimensions of height and width only. Seen only from the front including painting, drawing, and prints. Fresco: wall painting Smenkhkare & Meritaten(? ), Tel el-Amarna, Dynasty 18, ca. 1335 BCE Painting on wood panel Painting on silk Virgin of Vladimir, ca. 1100 Zhou Jichhang, Arhats Giving Alms to Beggars, 1178
Drawing on vellum Drawing on paper Koran page, beginning of Surah, 9 th century Bernardino Poccetti, Drawing of Design for façade of Florence Cathedral, 13 th century
Three Dimensional: having height, width, and depth. Can be seen in the round including sculpture, craft, and architecture Carved Modeled Cast Shaman with drum and Snake, ca. 1000 Sarcophagus with reclining couple, ca. 520 BCE Lion Human, Germany, Ca. 30, 000 -26, 000 BCE
Sculpture: assembled Bull headed lyre from Ur, ca. 2600 BCE, Relief Victory stele of Naram Sin, ca. 2300 -2200 BCE
Architecture Religious Homes Tombs Great pyramids of Giza, 2500 BCE Chartres Cathedral, Begun 1134, rebuilt 1194 Model of house & garden, Thebes, Dynasty 11, Ca 2009 -1997 BCE
Composition: structure and organization of a work of art • Landscape setting • Dressed in the Roman manner • Foreground, middleground, and background • Crowded and busy • Byzantine border David Composing Psalms, Paris Psalter, ca. 900, 14 -1/8 X 10 -1/8”, Biblioteque Nationale, Paris
Proportion and scale: size of parts to the whole or relationship of the work to its surrounding Pepy II & his mother, Queen Meyre, Dynasty 6, ca. 2383 -2289 BCE, calcite, 15 -1/4”, Brooklyn Museum Hierarchic proportion Colossal head, La Venta, Mexico, 900 -400 BCE, basalt, 96” high Mounumental scale
Symmetry Balance Purse cover, Sutton Hoo ship burial, 625 -33, gold with garnets and enamels, 8” long, British Museum, London S. Appolinaire in Classe, interior, Ravenna, 533 -49 CE
Color: makes an impression, can be symbolic (Mary in blue) Stavelot triptych, Mosan, ca. 1156 -58, gold, cloisonne enamel, 19 X 26” (open), Pierpont Morgan Library, New York Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels, icon, Monastery of St. Catherine, Mt. Sinai, Egypt, second half 6 th century, encaustic on wood, 27 X 18 -7/8”
Lines: most basic element. Can be real or “implied” (imagined). Actual lines Chi Ro Iota, Book of Kells, ca. 8 th century, tempera on vellum, 13 X 9 -1/2”, Trinity College, Dublin Implied lines (connect his hand to audience) Aulus Metellus, late 2 nd Century BCE, bronze, 5’ 11”, Museo Archelogico Nazionale, Florence
Content: meaning, symbolism, decoration, religious or narrative, representational, non-representational, expressionism Rebecca & Eliezer at the Well, Folio 7, Vienna Genesis, tempera, gold, silver on purple vellum Shiva, as Nataraja, bronze, Punjab, ca. 1000 Symbolic Narrative
Religious Content and Expressionism Representational Decorative and Non Represenational Crucifixion, Church of Hosios Loukas, Greece, ca. 1020, mosaic Banner from So. Spain, 13 th century, silk tapestry, Burgos, Spain
- A circular motion is one dimensional
- What is two-dimensional media
- Tvu of level crossing
- Objectives of addition
- Two circus clowns each having mass
- Two dimensional motion examples
- Two and three dimensional figures
- A topographic map is a two dimensional model
- A topographic map is a two dimensional model
- Shape of chair
- A proportional, two-dimensional drawing of an object
- 6 equal sides
- A topographic map is a two dimensional model