{"id":2071,"date":"2024-03-13T16:41:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2024-03-13T16:41:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:41:29","slug":"class-reflection-3-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/03\/13\/class-reflection-3-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Reflection 3.11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During class on Monday, we continued our discussion of Baroque art in Italy and Spain. We started off by looking at Bernini’s David<\/em>. Bernini depicts David during a specific moment between two bursts of movement. We compared the work to the Discobolus which assumes a similar position yet an impossible one whereas Berinini’s David<\/em> is in an achievable pose. The work is very true to life, as he studied is own face to capture the correct emotion. It was especially interesting to learn how this work is not displayed in a way that best captures the dramatic effect but in a way that allows viewers to examine Bernini’s skillful craftsmanship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We next looked at Bernini’s The Ecstasy of St. Teresa<\/em>. We learned how Bernini created a coextensive space, a concept that was important to Baroque art which was often intended to engage the viewer and convince the viewer of some truth. We connected the idea of using coextensive space to convince the viewer of an event to Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises<\/em>, as he encourages readers to engage themselves in their visions of religious stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the works we looked at from Spain, my favorite was Las Meninas <\/em>by Velazquez. We learned that not only is every figure in the work identifiable, but Velazquez also placed himself in the work, as he is working on a canvas that we can see on the left side of the image. It is interesting to consider how this is thought to be a painting about painting, as it includes the three primary elements necessary for a painting – an artist, a subject, and a viewer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During class on Monday, we continued our discussion of Baroque art in Italy and Spain. We started off by looking at Bernini’s David. Bernini depicts David during a specific moment between two bursts of movement. We compared the work to the Discobolus which assumes a similar position yet an impossible one whereas Berinini’s David is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}