{"id":2354,"date":"2024-04-10T00:37:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T00:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2024-04-10T00:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T00:37:06","slug":"april-8th-journal-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/04\/10\/april-8th-journal-remote\/","title":{"rendered":"April 8th Journal (Remote)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The architectural creations of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux have pronounced geometric forms such as <em>The House of the River Authority, <\/em>where a rectangular base encompasses a cylinder. This type of building conveys the idea of a utopian society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving to Romanticism, <em>Grande Odalisque, <\/em>depicts a harem woman which is not distinctly of an individual, but to express the idea of this exotic persona to the French population. It has a connection to 16th century painting, specifically <em>Venus of Urbino<\/em>, and <em>Madonna with the Long Neck<\/em>, referencing the subject matter and gracefulness respectfully. The girls features are perfect, having porcelain skin unblemished and small feet. The body is positioned gracefully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Raft of the Medusa <\/em>was a work that achieved much fame as the embodiment of Romanticism. This work shows a boat passing through the equator where there is a party on the boat. This distraction coupled with an incompetent captain led to hitting a coral reef. The officers and captain left the shift on life rafts while the rest attempted to make a raft to survive. This group of 150 people diminished to only 15 12 days later when they were found. This ordeal was traumatic and even forced cannibalism to survive. This moment is where they see a ship off in the distance. It isn&#8217;t a hopeful sight but creates more tension. There were many sketches made as well as painting made off of bodies from the morgue to portray death accurately. This work was inspired by Rubens <em>Elevation of the Cross<\/em> seen in the diagonals and contrast in color. It is a commentary against slavery. This work was used in the intro drawing class to practice shading which makes sense as a powerful part of the work comes from the extensive contrasts between light and dark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The architectural creations of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux have pronounced geometric forms such as The House of the River Authority, where a rectangular base encompasses a cylinder. This type of building conveys the idea of a utopian society. Moving to Romanticism, Grande Odalisque, depicts a harem woman which is not distinctly of an individual, but to express [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17821,"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\/2354"}],"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\/17821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}