June 30th, 2012 at 2:56PM
Some Notes from the first week of Art+Gender “We have seen the way in which the artist treated the male body almost as an exercise in pattern and composition…” “Emotion is expressed by gesture…” “A limestone group in the corner of the pediment of the Temple of Athena on the Athenian Acropolis. Three male torsos, winged and entwined serpent bodies.  They have been variously interpreted in the light of the symbols they hold - water, corn, a bird.  Hair and beards are blue, eyes black, skin yellow, and there is red and black on the feathers and scaly stripes.  About 550-540 BCE” ~ John Boardman, Greek Art

Some Notes from the first week of Art+Gender
  • “We have seen the way in which the artist treated the male body almost as an exercise in pattern and composition…”
  • “Emotion is expressed by gesture…”
  • “A limestone group in the corner of the pediment of the Temple of Athena on the Athenian Acropolis. Three male torsos, winged and entwined serpent bodies.  They have been variously interpreted in the light of the symbols they hold - water, corn, a bird.  Hair and beards are blue, eyes black, skin yellow, and there is red and black on the feathers and scaly stripes.  About 550-540 BCE” ~ John Boardman, Greek Art

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