Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and exercises for Arts and Humanities for Baccalaureate

Mobile Iconographic Language Elements: The Plans

The camera lens captures a part of reality and frames it. The plane sequence is a scene filmed in a single shot (or take).

Elements of Plane Composition

Composition factors determine how visual elements are arranged within the frame:

• Field: Everything visible within the frame. This includes elements within the field and those outside, but logically deduced by the viewer.
• Composition: Elements of increased interest should be placed so that the frame is neither too crowded nor lacking in visual balance.
• Continuity: When framing a character, especially when they are looking or moving, allow extra space in those directions to maintain visual flow.

The Raccord (Continuity Editing)

The raccord is the arrangement...

Week 2 Key Terms

• Futurism:
• Social Actors

Citation: For a generation often accused of being passive and totally preoccupied with their own selves, their digital devices and social media, young people are ready to show that there is another side to their life trajectories—that they are future-makers. (Spyrou, 2020, p. 3)

Week 3 Term/Citation

Settler Colonialism: When people from a place of imperial power move to a region and displace those indigenous to the land through genocide, expulsion, or segregation. (Spencer & Sinclair, 2017).

Biopolitics – When a population is being treated as a problem.

Week 4 Citation

• Bodymind Difference - A way of challenging the idea that the body and mind are separate. Disability is an identity that is not solely

Theatre of Epidaurus

General Information

Title:

Theatre of Epidaurus

Architect:

Polykleitos the Younger

Period:

4th Century BC

Material:

Stone

Location:

Epidaurus, Peloponnese, Greece

Formal Analysis

Description:

Nestled against a hillside, the Theatre of Epidaurus features distinct sections: the orchestra, the cavea (seating area), and the skene (stage building).

• Orchestra: A circular, sandy area at the base, used by the chorus and featuring a central altar dedicated to Dionysus.
• Cavea: The semi-circular seating area, accommodating up to 15,000 spectators, divided into two sections by a corridor (diazoma).
• Skene: A building tangent to the orchestra, serving as a backdrop, with a raised platform (proscenium) in front for theatrical action.

The theatre's lateral...

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa: A 17th-Century Masterpiece by Bernini

Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome (1647-1652)

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, a marble sculpture group considered to be Gian Lorenzo Bernini's masterpiece, is located in the Cornaro Chapel within the Roman church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. Commissioned by the Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Federico Cornaro, the chapel was intended as his final resting place. The scene depicted in the sculpture is based on Saint Teresa of Ávila's own description of her mystical experience, later included in her canonization.

Bernini masterfully integrates architecture, sculpture, and painting to create a theatrical experience. The work is a perfect example of Baroque art's aim to...

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and The Last Judgement

Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475 – Rome, 1564). Period: 1508-1512. Renaissance. Technique: Fresco painting. Theme: Biblical. Location: Vatican City.

Michelangelo, a painter, sculptor, architect, and designer, was connected to the Medici family from childhood, learning in the workshop of painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and studying sculpture at the Medici gardens school under Bertoldo di Giovanni.

After the death of his patron, Lorenzo de' Medici, in 1492, Michelangelo resided in Bologna until 1496. He then moved to Rome, where he solidified his reputation by undertaking significant papal commissions, alongside notable works in Florence.

Formal Description

The Sistine Chapel's vault measures...

Santa Maria Novella

Leon Battista Alberti, 1456-1470

(Bows and a decorative circular window in the middle)

The facade consists of two spirals that connect the central body with the sides, thus giving proportion and harmony to the work, which is, after all, the main feature of the Renaissance. Using a classical pediment is another element taken from the repertoire offered by antiquity. Alberti reworked this repertoire with great freedom. To achieve a harmonious relationship between the width of the lower body and the much narrower upper body of this facade, the architect designed the two scrolls already mentioned, which had a great impact on sixteenth-century religious architecture.

Note the use of many geometric shapes in the work, such as the...

The Narrative Verbal Icon /2

A Brief Overview of the History of Narration

• Phase 1: Mythic narration = "histories" of the world. Very ancient stories, which are signs of the thinking man. They are a kind of documentation about how people think. This was the narrative of fictitious cultures. The heroes were divine beings, outstanding humans who were able to do things which others are unable to.
• Phase 2: High Mimetic narration = imitating a culture which is superior to another, connecting the stories with historical facts. The producers of heroic epics found a tradition and storytellers followed them. (primary=oral, secondary=written). The journeys of Odysseus and Aeneas belong here. The focus is on the journey made by the characters (mostly without)

20th-century poetry presents several difficulties due to the aesthetic currents of thought that overlap with dizzying speed. It is difficult to ascribe certain authors to specific movements, as they often evolved throughout their lives.

Celtic Myths and Anglo-Irish Poetry

A serious concern and a deep spiritual love for Irish poetry are maintained, understanding it to be clear and common-use.

T.S. Eliot and Fragmentation

T.S. Eliot, an English poet, received influence from avant-garde movements and French Symbolists like Baudelaire. He employed the technique of the objective correlative, writing a series of disconnected images whose connection the reader must determine, as seen in "The Waste Land."

Rainer Maria Rilke and Germanic Spirituality

Rainer...

Journalistic Texts

Types of Journalistic Texts

The following are some common types of journalistic texts, categorized by their purpose and style:

• News: An objective account of a fact. The headline highlights the most important aspect of the story.
• Report: An informative text prepared by the newspaper's documentation service.
• Story: Combines information and interpretation, as the journalist presents facts as they have witnessed them.
• Chronicle: Relates current events and provides an analysis of them.
• Interview: The reproduction of a dialogue between a journalist and a person.
• Grandstand: A newspaper article in which a known figure outlines their ideas or opinions on an issue linked to the present.
• Column: An opinion piece signed by a regular newspaper

Cervantes' Narrative Style

Cervantes' work reflects a Mannerist style, positioned between the simplicity and naturalness of the Renaissance and the complexity and artifice of the Baroque. His style successfully adapts to the needs of a broad audience, blending the popular, proverb-filled speech of Sancho Panza with idealized, bucolic landscapes. The narrative combines religious and archaic elements, a parody of chivalric romances, and a plain, intimate, natural, and expressive tone.

Key Narrative Techniques

• Narrative Perspectivism: The primary narrator is limited to transcribing a manuscript allegedly found, attributed to an Arab historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli. This is known as the "found manuscript" technique.
• Humor and Verisimilitude: This