The first video I picked was the one on Buddhism. Different relgions have always fascinated me. Reading about the influence in art from Buddhism made me want to look into it more. THis video begins to explain people who practice Buddhism believe you should be in the world and not of it. They try to free themselves from their ego. This video showes parts of India where the rivers flourished. Buddha was seen as a saint and savor in India. The city of Sanchi would honor buddha with relics every where. Stuppas were an archetecturial influence that Buddhism had in culture. They were funeral burial sites. Much of the Buddhist art contains elephants, pot belly dwarfs and lions. One thing I found interesting is that there is a very well known monastry in upstate New York. This video was very educational and showed a lot interesting art work
The Second video that I choose to watch was the one on Hinduism. Hinduism and Buddhism are very similar and I thought that this video would be just as interesting. One thing I liked about this video was the music it used in the background. I enjoy the spiritual music of India. Hinduism beleives that Heaven is on Earth. They differ from Buddhist in that they believe in reincarnation and everything that they do will affect who they will be in their next life. The oldest city in the world is Varanasi in India. India has very elaborate architecture all over becuase they beleive that can worship anywhere. One of the cultural aspects of India is the burial of their dead. Aarti is the name of the ceremony that is used where the dead float across the river into the afterlife. During this whole ceremony Hinduists are not allowed to touch the dead body. I think that this video was important in understanding where some of the Indian art and why it is so important in the Indian society. This video showed the importance of architecture in India. This can be related to our lessons on Indian Art as well as architecture.
The third video that I watched was the one on African Art. I picked this one because I think that African tribes are very interesting. African Art is dress, hair and tradtional relics. African art is used in ceremonies, especially dance. This video was interesting when it got to the part about the masks that are used. Most of the masks rarely date back 200 yrs plus because of the very degrateable materials that they are made of. The video also talks about tradtional rock painting in Africa. we seen this several times int he text when it talks about cave paintings. The pictures were very interesting becuase they were dead on what the animals really looked like. They were very accurate and you can easily pick out what each animal is supposed to be. This video then goes on to talk about the Bronze casting in Egypt. We have learned several items about Egyptian art in previous chapters. I think this video captured some very interesting African masks and really caught my attention.
The last video that I picked was the one on Japnese art. I picked this one hoping it would be on modern Japenese art, anime. I knew the odds of that was rare because the textbook talks apart early artwork but it was worth a shot. This video is about the Great Wave that is known everywhere in Japan. It shows us how nature inspires. The orginal painting was done in layers by Hakusai. One thing that I found interesting in this video is that it was so cheap to obtain a copy. I found it hard to believe that something so valuable in a culture was so cheap. The great wave painting was important becuase it shows the freezing of time. This was a new topic in art at this time. The wave is commonly known by many and often used in everyday Japanese culture. Poeople have pictures of waves on their clothes,walls and even tattoo a wave on their body. The wave symbolizes the cause and affect, chaos and order. I think that this video was interesting because it really shows us how important it is. I thought the tattoos really made me realize how important it really was.
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