Magic Lantern Project

Robert

Michael

Matthew

Kris

Katherine

Chelsea

Brooke

Brian

Ariel

Andrea

Alyssa

Creative Project, Magic Lantern and If So, Then What Paper

Projection to take place during First Friday Art Walk, December 3, 6:30 pm.
Location of projection TBA.

Reception for our learning community in the Student Center, 5:00 - 6:00, Friday, December 3.

The projections will be TEXT ONLY.  You have creative freedom with the arrangement of text and can use whatever font(s) you feel necessary to communicate your message.
Look at the work of artist Jenny Holzer.  Link here.

PEOPLE AND THEIR TOPICS:
Chelsea - Salem Witch Trials
Emma - Shay's Rebellion
Taylor - Lewis and Clark
Matthew - Manifest Destiny, Louisiana Purchase
Brooke - Trail of Tears
Kris - Admiral de Grasse
Alex - If the British did not move the revolution to the south.
Erik
Beth - If the south won the Civil War.
Mallory -
Marissa - Articles of Confederation
Brian - Henry Knox
Katherine - The founding of Virginia.
Ariel - Tea Act
Alyssa - Santa Anna
Andrea - If France and GB made peace before the seven year war.
Shakia, Ashli, Micheal and Robert - Lincoln Assasinated

Full Circle, Section III of the course, Test #3

Bad Romance, Music Video, Lady Gaga.  Video link here.

Like A Prayer, Music Video, Madonna.  Link here.

1887

Cupid and Psyche, 1783

Death of Saint Cecilia, 1600

Ecstasy of St. Theresa, 1652, marble, Bernini

Augustine, 1875

Video link here.
Article here.

Pieta, Marble, 1499, by Michelangelo
Pieta - a picture or sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Jesus Christ on her lap or in her arms.



Link here for the exhibition, Warhol vs. Banksy.
Link here for an article on Edmonia Lewis.
Link here for a photo essay of Banksy's work.
Link here for an article about the Guerilla Girls.

Terms and People for Test #3

Test #3 takes place during our final exam time slot, Monday, Dec. 6, 12 - 1:45, in our classroom.
Test begins at 12:00.  Arrive on time.
No make up tests.
Final List of Terms and People posted 9:00 pm, Sunday, December 5.

culture
James Taylor (Chapter 18)
Leslie Magazine (Chapter 18)
Neo-classical
antebellum
Frederick Douglass
The Greek Goddess (or The Greek Slave)
Jenny Holzer
pieta
baroque
icon
grafitti
visual culture
Banksy
Andy Warhol
Madonna
Lady GaGa
Mao
Pop Art
Psyche and Cupid
Charles Moore
Civil Rights Movement
Guerilla Girls
perception
Edmonia Lewis
Hiram Powers

Chapter 18, Marketing the Slave Trade: Slavery, Photography and Emancipation

Frederick Douglass, 1855.

Frederick Douglass.  Link here.  And here for book.

Frederick Douglass, 1848.

The Banjo Player, painting, 35"x 28", 1856.

Portrait of Renty, African-born slave, daguerreotype, 1850.
Harvard scientist Louis Agassiz.  

George Washington, Marble, 1840.  Commissioned by Congress, installed in the Capitol rotunda, Neo-classical.

Amistad.
Cinque, painting, 30" x 25 ", 1839.
Gaze, Staff, Toga.
Madison Washington.

The Greek Slave on view at the Crystal Palace.

Retouched daguerreotype, 1847, photography medium for erotica.
Daguerreotype - an early form of photography, image captured on a copper plate, no negative, cannot reproduce.

British Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
Symbol, Cameo.

The Virginian Slave, 1851, cartoon by John Tenniel, Punch Magazine.
Skin color, chains, American flag, decoration, From Many One (1782).

The Greek Slave, 1844, by Hiram Powers (American sculptor).
Neo-classical, Chains, Locket/Cross, Drapery

From the Courier and Enquirer, August, 1847:
THE GREEK SLAVE.—None of the many descriptions which we had heard and read of this statue gave us any idea of what we were to expect. All were but vague and unmeaning expressions of admiration, from which we could gather nothing save that their object was a beautiful woman with her wrists chained. We wondered at this, but having seen the statue, we wonder no longer; its beauty is so pure, so lofty, so sacred, takes such a clinging hold upon the heart, and so subdues the whole man, that time must pass before one could speak of its merits in detail without doing violence to the emotions awakened in him; and there are few, we think and hope, of the great number who have already seen this exquisite creation of the chisel who will not sympathize with us in this feeling. We cannot attempt, at present at least, to analyse the impressions which this lovely woman makes upon us, or to indicate in detail the many delicate beauties which go to make up the one great and almost oppressive beauty of her presence.
  It is extremely interesting to watch the effect which the slave has upon all who come before it. Its presence is a magic circle within whose precincts all are held spell-bound and almost speechless. The gray-headed man, the youth, the matron and the maid, alike yield themselves to the magic of its power, and for many minutes gaze upon it in silent and reverential admiration, and so pure an atmosphere breathes round it that the eye of man beams only with reverent delight and the cheek of woman glows but with the fullness of emotion. Loud talking men are hushed into a silence at which they themselves wonder; those who come to speak learnedly and utter ecstasies of dilettantism slink into corners where alone they may silently gaze in pleasing penance for their audacity, and groups of women hover together as if to seek protection from the power of their own sex's beauty.

  On Thursday the statue was not open to the public, but the door was continually besieged by parties of three and four, of both ladies and gentlemen, who begged admission on the ground that they were to leave town on Friday, and many have postponed their departure for the West and South, merely that they might see the Greek Slave. Amply will they be repaid, and amply would they have been repaid had they made a pilgrimage from the furthest West to worship at that shrine of beauty.  Link here.