
Art History free printable template
Get, Create, Make and Sign art history teaching outline



How to edit art history teaching outline online
Uncompromising security for your PDF editing and eSignature needs
How to fill out art history teaching outline

How to fill out Art History
Who needs Art History?
Instructions and Help about art history teaching outline
Music we're in the Louvre looking at Jericho's raft of the Medusa this is a massive painting its sixteen by 23 feet, and it's important to remember that large paintings were reserved for important subjects that were generally ennobling or that showed heroic deed of some sort and this painting could not be further from that it's not drawn from ancient Greek and Roman history it's not a physical subject the story behind the subject is one of the most gruesome in the history of the sea that had taken place just three years earlier the title of the painting the raft of the Medusa is referring to a ship called the Medusa it was part of the small fleet of ships that were trying to reclaim Senegal from the British as a French colony, and it had about 400 people on board many of them were settlers there were about 150 soldiers the man who was going to be the new governor of Senegal was also on board the problems began when the ship ran aground in the open ocean there weren't enough lifeboats and so the captain ordered the ship's carpenter to construct a raft from some lumber of the boat to hold everybody that couldn't fit into the lifeboat well naturally those who went into the lifeboats were those of higher status the captain the officers the politicians and those that ended up on this makeshift raft were primarily the soldiers and the settlers the idea was that the raft would be towed but within only a few minutes when the captain realized that the lifeboat was being slowed by the raft the line was severed and the raft was allowed to drift out to sea on so a hundred and fifty people were abandoned at sea what happened on the raft was horrific there was starvation murder and of course the worst thing imaginable that happened was cannibalism and there were even reports that some people were intentionally killed to provide food for the survivors and to preserve the small amount of supplies that remained and all of this is depicted in wrenching detail the artist interviewed survivors he made a full scale model in his studio he created small stages with clay figures in order to organize the figures, and he even retrieved body parts from the morgue brought them back to his studio in order to be able to accurately depict purifying remains you mentioned its naturalism its realism but in some ways it's not at all real the bodies are clearly based on ancient Greek and Roman sculptures on the studies of the nude figure that artists had to do at the academy this crescendo of this pyramid of figures clearly things were not organized in this way on the raft this is a composition by an artist making a statement saying something creating a kind of anti-heroic painting that is still in the visual language of the Academy the captain had been appointed by the king now the monarchy had been recently restored, and you had this revolution that began in 1789 that established a republic in France that ended with the Napoleonic Empire and the restoration of a monarchy but the...
People Also Ask about
How do you structure an art lesson?
What is taught in art history?
How can we use the arts to teach history?
How do you teach kids about art history?
How does art play a role in history?
How to teach history through art?
For pdfFiller’s FAQs
Below is a list of the most common customer questions. If you can’t find an answer to your question, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
How do I execute art history teaching outline online?
Can I create an eSignature for the art history teaching outline in Gmail?
Can I edit art history teaching outline on an Android device?
What is Art History?
Who is required to file Art History?
How to fill out Art History?
What is the purpose of Art History?
What information must be reported on Art History?
pdfFiller is an end-to-end solution for managing, creating, and editing documents and forms in the cloud. Save time and hassle by preparing your tax forms online.
