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Dürer’s Praying Hands

Dürer's Praying Hands (Betende Hände) for a Sunday morning. Watercolour and gouache on green paper. Albertina, Graphic and Art's Collection. Vienna. Art for art's sake Jesús Lorenzo Vieites #albrecht_dürer #durero #dürer #northern_renaissance #german_renaissance #vienna #watercolour #kunstgeschichte #arthistory

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Blog 3

Blog 3

The piece I choose is “The Temptation of St. Anthony” by Hieronymus Bosch (N.D.). The balance in the art is focused on the lower section. It has a lot going out at the bottom and it looks very hectic. I think the biggest problem with the balance is there are multiple smaller objects doing stuff that catches your eye but what I see first is at the top. It's the man's face I see who has a very light application to him making him stand out in the musky background. The hazy dark background adds a negative weight to the image. It has a very nice use of green and yellow to give it a feel of some type of positivity that plays off the purity of the man. The rhythm sways from the main guy down to the tiny mischief in the bottom. It almost passes the message that faith is bigger than all the problems people have. He's the biggest element and your eyes go there first before anywhere else. It’s like having your faith be first then every other thing is inferior to it. Hieronymus Bosch’s technique seems to be adding awesome detail to the primary objects/people in the painting and throws the background in the back just to set the mood, and not be a key component in the piece. The Northern Renaissance was during an impactful time for Italy, Poland, and Germany. There was a lot of dumpster about the Christian religion and authority. This piece seems like a symbol of clarity to throw religion. The man in the image has a cross on and is obtaining water from a toxic creek. Th3ere is a man stuck in a funnel, a fish with wings, and other outrageous creatures running around all hectic, but the man in the image is on the other side and looks calm and at peace. It said in the reading that it took place right around the beginning of the 15th century. So, another hypothesis of mine is that the art is based around the Bubonic plague which hit roughly around the 14th century.my ideas round this is the rebuilding of these colonies is challenging, and there's a lot of rebel, diseases, and religious debate. This art is my favorite on I've seen so far in this class and Hieronymus Bosch style is awesome. I live his attention to detail and not much to background. Its kinda relates to the old 90’s cartoons, where the characters had a different amount of detail compared to their environment.

References

https://www.foxnews.com/science/rare-painting-by-dutch-renaissance-artist-hieronymus-bosch-found-in-kansas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Renaissance

https://www.radford.edu/rbarris/art216upd2012/Northern%20europe%20in%20the15th%20century%20s11.html

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“The School of Athens” - Raphael (1509 - 1511)

Who developed the work and when: The School of Athens by painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between the years 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now known as the “Stanze di Raffaello”, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.

Use the principles of design to describe the work (balance, weight, contrast, movement, rhythm, emphasis). The balance throughout this painting is well weighted across the whole work of art. There is no one object or figure the painting is emphasized on. There is much detail in this painting that can take time to focus on each detail. For example, the people featured in the painting and the architecture. Colors that stand out to me are neutrals/golds, and reds. 

Explain why you chose the work, and what stands out to you. Why I chose this work was because it seemed to be the most popular work of art that consistently showed up when researching the Northern Renaissance. This work of art stands out to me because it appears to include every great ancient Greek philosopher in it, which I think is kind of interesting. I also chose this piece of artwork because the artist was Italian. The Northern Renaissance is a period in which artists north of the Alps basically, in the Low Countries (the Netherlands and Belgium), Germany, France, and England adopted and adapted the ideas of the Italian Renaissance.

Describe what within the work defines it as something to be associated with traits of the Northern Renaissance. This piece of artwork has ancient Greek philosophers featured in it making that a huge trait of the Northern Renaissance. Greek figures are a big part of art, not just in the Northern Renaissance but in many different eras of art creation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Renaissance#:~:text=The%20Northern%20Renaissance%20was%20the,its%20Renaissance%20spread%20around%20Europe.

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Spitting images in art

Who else, except me, could have put together Vladimir Putin and Greta Thunberg? A smile for a Saturday morning😁. From two outstanding Flemish artists: Jan van Eyck and Anthonis Mor. Jesús L. Vieites