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UNIT 7-FORMS IN NATURE AND ITS EXPRESSION IN ART - Coggle Diagram
UNIT 7-FORMS IN NATURE AND ITS EXPRESSION IN ART
Artistic interpretations of human figure
In aesthetics, the human figure in art involves a study and appreciation of the beauty of the human body in its depiction or presentation. The study involves an appreciation of the body shape, including body postures.
Anatomy
Is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. The relationship between the visual arts and anatomy is rich and diverse. Since Renaissance, artists have recognised the importance of anatomical knowledge for their own creative work.
Proportion
Is a comparative relation between things or magnitudes, relation between the body and its parts. The definition of beauty is not an immanent and objective quality of things, since every age, place and social class formed its own ideal of beauty.
Ancient Greece
Statues with the arms held straight at the sides, the feet are almost together and the eyes stare blankly ahead without any particular facial expression. Greek sculptors created life-size sculpture which glorified the human and especially nude male form. developed complicated formulas of proportions, canons, that divided the body into component parts proportionately and symmetrically connected to one another
Middle Ages
Especially during the Gothic, artist used an expressive canon, adapting it to the artistic aim: to suggest the elevation of the spirit.
Ancient Egypt
The art of ancient Egypt was both uniquely stylized and symbolic. In the same way that hieroglyphs were visual language, the art of ancient Egypt followed specific rules in order to be read and understood. The face and the legs were depicted in profile, while the torso was depicted from the front view. The unit of proportion was the base of the hand and forearm
Prehistoric Times
It doesn't correspond very much to our present sense of an ideal body, because we expect beauty to evoke sensuous and mental delight as an image of harmony and perfection
Renaissance
It was a great cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation. The Renaissance artists used the Golden Mean extensively in their paintings and sculptures to achieve balance and beauty. Established proportions are based on the observation of the real human figure, as it considers the human being as the measure of all things.
Art Modern
Modern Art and, currently, Contemporary Art are based on freedom and therefore support all artistic expressions, without canons or rules.
The proportions of the head and face
Although the proportions of a head will vary from person to person and change slightly with age, there are some basic principles you can follow to improve your drawing. If you view a head from the front, its width is approximately two thirds of its height. If you view a head from the side, its width is approximately seven eighths of its height. When the compositions are not completely immobile or are not a frontal view, is called : foreshortening and measures will considerably vary.
Caricatures
A caricature is a drawing of a real person which distorts or exaggerates certain features, but still retains a likeness: in other words an exaggerated piece of portrait art. They continue to remain popular today, and are used in magazines and newspapers to poke fun at film stars, politicians and celebrities.
Masks
The mask is one of the most basic and recognizable of all forms, and for good reason. Masks have long been central to religious rituals, serving as tools of transformation and bridges to the spirit world.