Little Giant Girl Doll

Sam Taylor Wood, Pieta

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyUWJqExw00

"In the large video projection "Pietà," the artist Sam Taylor Wood labors to support the draped body of Robert Downey Jr. Why him, one might ask, and for that matter, why her? Why ask, is the likely reply. Taylor-Wood has appropriated widely in the past-from Atlas to Roman orgy scenes (updated to the present day) to Hollywood movies. Here, as elsewhere in her work, surface registers of emotion and physical distress take the place of narrative. The pietà becomes an icon of exhaustion and distress, in her hands." -source link here.

Pieta

Michelangelo

1498-1499

Marble

68.5 inches x 76 inches

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

Subject: Jesus and Mary, Mother of Jesus

Classical Beauty, Naturalism, Youth

Commissioned by a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

pee-ay-taa

Italian - pity, passion

Images (sculptures, paintings) used as visual aids for prayer and contemplation. 

Illustrate the narrative of scripture. 

Icon for distress and despair.

Images for Reading Handout (symbols)

Archetypes

Archetype - a recurrent symbol in literature, art or mythology, a typical example.

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Allegory

Allegory - a story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one, a narrative that serves as an extended metaphor.

Difference between allegory and symbol - allegory a complete narrative abstract ideas, a symbol is a representation of an idea.

Link here to read article, Why Avatar Is A Crummy Allegory, from politics daily.

Link here to read article, You Saw What in Avatar? Pass Those Glasses, from the New York Times.

A Concise History of the Origins of Cinema

Joseph Pine: What Consumers Want

Semiotics

UP For Discussion

A lot of info and visual on the internet.  Here is a link to one article that I quickly looked over.

Horror Photographer, Joshua Hoffine

Chapter

Madonna, Vogue

Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody

Battle between Alexander Nevskys novgorodian troops and the knights of the Teutonic Order on Lake Peipus. Music: Prokofiev.