Make-Up Do Nows

Make-Up Do NowsPick any of the following slides for your make-up Do Now. Specify which day you are making up.

Sculptures like the Hohlenstein-Stadel Feline are called composite figures, meaning they are a blend of at least two different creatures. This paleolithic figure appears to be part lion, part man.1. List at least 4 other composite figures you can think of from stories around the world. Stuck? Think Egypt and Greece to get going.

2. Draw a composite figure of your own using any of the following creatures (or others you like): Man/Woman, Bear, Pig, Spider, Elephant, Eagle.

Draw a dragon head using the steps below.

This female figure is called a kore, the Greek word for a feminine youth (masculine kouros, plural kouroi). Figures like this one often adorned graves, because they embodied youth and lifeyoull notice her archaic smile, which was how sculptors showed that the figure represented was meant to be seen as alive.

Draw this kore from the Acropolis in Athens in your sketchbook.

Reproduce this still-life in your sketchbook. Pay close attention to shadows and contour.

This sculpture is from Greeces Geometric period, during the eighth century BCE.

Can you decipher what kind of creature the hero is fighting?

Draw the sculpture in your sketchbook.

Seated Scribe, ca. 2500 BCEKhafre Enthroned, ca. 2520-2494 BCEThese two figures are both from the time of the fourth dynasty of Egypt. Notice the difference in realism between the twowhy would sculptors depict a scribe and pharaoh with such varying accuracy? Explain your thoughts in your sketchbook.

This Harihara statue is from Prasat Andet, Cambodia. Harihara is a composite of the Hindu gods Shiva and Vishnu. The figure is split down the middle, with his right side representing Shiva, his left as Vishnu.

At first glance, what (or whose) artistic style does this statue remind you of? Why?

Draw a dog using only geometric shapes.

Yay composite figures! This is the Chimera of Arezzo, an Etruscan sculpture from Arezzo, Italy of the mythological monster. The Chimera has the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a serpent. This beast, slain by the Greek hero Bellerophon, also breathed fire.

Draw your own version of a Chimera in your sketchbook. Don't forget the FIRE!

This image exemplifies what is called arbitrary perspective.

1. What about this mosaic might give this style of imagery that name?

2. Why do you think this style was so frequently used in early Christian art?

arbitrary=based on random choice or whim, rather than reason

perspective=the representation of 3D imagery on a 2D surface