Module 9 Video discussion questions

Module 9

Video discussion questions

1.    Explain why you selected each of the TWO videos you choose from the selection listed above.

- I selected the videos because I was interested in learning something new about the artists.

2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

            The Drawings of Michelangelo: The techniques Michelangelo used. Michelangelo had very good knowledge of the human body, which helped his drawings look even better. Michelangelo’s drawings reveals emphasis on the solar plexus of human figures. We see through the other drawings how he prepared the figures for the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. He was called by the Medici pope to design the Medici family church of San Lorenzo, it became a funerary chapel and family tomb. Michelangelo had conflicting forces of the male form and his intensely felt Christian faith, which were what inspired him in his art. He explores his conflicting feelings of hope and dread in his crucifixion drawings.

           Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance: Shows Leonardo’s life and work from his birth in Tuscany to his last years in Cloux. He was an expert painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, etc. In his younger years he amazes his family and friends by his desire for understanding, and he only gets better over time. He is a master of perspective and proportion of man and animals, also becomes a good architect, and draws from life. He studies the machines of his day in order to improve them and to invent even more complex ones. He organizes entertainments and shows at the court of Milan and experiments with mechanical inventions and theatrical machinery. As an engineer he designs an excavator large enough to build canals.

3.    How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?

The videos relate to the reading in the text because they both talk about how the role of the human body was held at such a high position during this time. Also about the artists and the techniques they used.

4.    What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?

My opinion of the films would be that they helped me get a better understand of the artists and the techniques they used.