Showing posts with label Chapter 4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chapter 4. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Slide Images for November 4

 Slow Down Freight Train
Rose Piper
1946

 Art of the Negro: Native Forms
Hale A. Woodruff
1950-51

 Afro Emblems
Hale A. Woodruff
1950

 Blue Intrusion
Hale A. Woodruff
1958

 Every Atom Glows: Electrons In Luminous Vibration
Norman Lewis
1951

 Harlem Turns White
Norman Lewis
1955

 Evening Rendezvous
Norman Lewis
1962

 Blue is the Smoke of War, White the Bones of Men
Romare Bearden
c. 1960

…I Have A Special Fear for My Loved Ones
Elizabeth Catlett
1946

Sharecropper
Elizabeth Catlett
1952

O, Mary, Don’t You Weep
Charles White
1964

Terms of the Day for November 4


  • The Baby Boom –  in the United States, this term most often refers to the post-World War II baby boom (1946–1964). An estimated 78.3 million Americans were born during this demographic boom in births.
  • Abstract Expressionism – the first specifically American art movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, it combined the emotional intensity of German Expressionism with the abstraction of Futurism and Synthetic Cubism.


Monday, November 2, 2015

Lecture Slides for November 2

Mutiny Aboard the Amistad, 1839
Hale A. Woodruff
1939

Migration of the Negro, Panel 1: During the World War there was a Great Migration North by Southern Negroes
Jacob Lawrence
1940-41

Migration of the Negro, Panel 50: Race Riots were Numerous.  White Workers Were Hostile Toward the Migrants Who Had Been Hired to Break Strikes
Jacob Lawrence
1940-41

Migration of the Negro, Panel 57: The female worker was also one of the last groups to leave the South
Jacob Lawrence
1940-41

Café
William H. Johnson
c. 1939-40

Going to Church
William H. Johnson
c. 1940-41

Dinah
Louis Armstrong and his band
c. 1930s

Poster for ‘Cabin in the Sky’
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
1943


Clips from Cabin in the Sky
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
1943

Room No. VII
Eldzier Cortor
1948

The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly
James Hampton
c. 1950-64

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Slide Images for September 16

Face Carved in Stone Over the Southern Gate to Angkor Thom
Cambodia
12th Century

The Buddha Raised on the Coils of the Naga Mucilinda
Angkor Thom
12th Century

Standing Crowned Buddah (Angkor Wat Style)
Khmer
12th Century

Dvaravati Stone Buddha in dhyana mudra pose
Thailand
13th Century

Pagan
Burma
Late 11th- early 12th Centuries


The Shwezigon
Pagan, Burma
Completed in 1102

The Ananda Temple
Pagan, Burma
Completed in 1105

 Bronze Sukhothai Buddha
Thailand
Late 14th-early 15th century

 Bronze Sukhothai Walking Buddha
Thailand
14th century

 Wat Ratchaburana
Ayuthaya, Thailand
15th century

Central Prang, Wat Ratchaburana
Ayuthaya, Thailand
15th century


Terms of the Day for September 16


  • Pagoda – a general term for a multiple-tiered tower sometimes applied to religious monuments with a relic chamber such as the Shwezigon.
  • Wat – a term used for a Buddhist monastery complex in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.
  • Prang – in Thai cultures of Khmer, Sukhothai, and Ayutthayan, a tall, narrow monument representing the many levels of heaven in Buddhist belief.
  • Ubosot - a building in a Buddhist Wat, considered the holiest prayer room, that serves as the assembly hall where new monks are ordinated.


Monday, September 14, 2015

Slide Images for September 14


 Borobudur
Central Java
9th Century

 A Lower Terrace of Borobudur
Central Java
9th Century

 Prince Sidhartha Cutting Off His Hair
Inner wall of the first gallery, Borobudur
9th Century

 The Buddha is entertained by Cunda
Eastern Wall, Borobudur
9th Century

 Stairway
Borobudur
9th Century



 Arupadhatu Realm (upper three terraces)
Borobudur
9th Century

 Buddha enclosed in Small Stupa
Borobudur
9th Century

 Buddha that was once enclosed in Small Stupa
Borobudur
9th Century

 Central Stupa
Borobudur
9th Century


 Candi Plaosan
Central Java
8th to 9th Century

 Interior Bodhisattva
Candi Plaosan
8th to 9th Century

 Exterior Bodhisattva
Candi Plaosan
8th to 9th Century

Statue of Adityawarman as Bhairava
Sumatra
14th Century

Terms of the Day for Septemeber 14


  • Buddhism –a religion strongly connected with Hinduism that is largely based on teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, an awakened or enlightened teacher who shared his insights to help people end suffering through eliminating ignorance and desire to reach nirvana.
  • Buddah – meaning, “the awakened one”, a being which has reached the perfect state of enlightenment or nirvana.  THE Buddha typically refers to Siddhartha Gautama.
  • Bodhisattva – (bode-hee-SAHT-vah) in Buddhism, one who has delayed the attainment of buddhahood and nirvana in order to teach others.
  • Stupa – (STOO-pah) a bell- or mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics, typically the remains of Buddha, used by Buddhists as a place of worship.  Originally, these were earthen domes, but were later constructed.