Assignment Four – Research
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Assignment One – Exercises and research
What political, economic and social factors might be influencing practitioners of art in the west today? Environmental Climate change, re-use, reduce, recycle, upcycling, waste influencing choice and use of materials. Movement away from consumerism to more thoughtful, mindful making and purchasing. Artists using recycled materials: TextileArtists Stonecycling – WasteBasedBricks – recycling old bricks into handmade […]
Assignment Three – Research – Chapter Th
30 years war. Spain in decline. Dutch republic rises to power. Decline of Holy Roman Empire. More tolerance. Rule increasingly parliamentary/republican/autocratic. Papacy recovering from Protestant Reformation – Rome once again artistic centre as was France. (pp 567-8) New beginnings in Rome N Italy, Carracci (idealism) and Caravaggio (naturalism). Contrasting directly with 16th c art theory, […]
Assignment Three – Research – Chapter Te
Renaissance artists very self-aware. They and humanists (eg. Valla) saw themselves as reviving the arts, rescuing it from a period of decline (p416) However, ‘Dark Ages’ of art something of a myth, promulgated by later writers (arguably the original humanists) eg Petrarch, harking back to what they saw as more noble Classical period. (p416) Humanists […]
Assignment Three – Research – Baroque ar
Assignment Two – Research – Medieval Arc
Romanesque/gothic St Peter’s, Salford Crown & Kettle pub, Ancoats St Mary’s Church (the Little Gem) St Mary’s Parish Church Newton with Flowery Field John Rylands Library HMP Strangeways Whitworth Hall (University of Manchester) Manchester Town Hall Medieval Chethams School of Music Baguely Hall, Wythenshawe Clayton Hall, Clayton Manchester and surrounding areas blessed with a number […]
Assignment Two – Research – Roman Art &
Roman occupation of Britain – Manchester Mamucium (from the Latin ‘breast-like hill’) was originally a timber fort built in 73ad on the banks of the river Medlock at the intersection between the Medlock and Irwell. It was occupied until c90AD. Mamucium was a strategic outpost, defending the Roman occupiers (under the governance of Agricola c79AD) […]