Module Eight - Blog: Video Reviews

1. Explain why you selected each of the three videos you choose from the selection listed above.

I chose the first video entitled "More Human than Human" because this video was mandatory to watch in order to do this assignment. For my second video, I chose the "Late Gothic Art and Architecture: England, 1400-1547" because I like how the buildings are created. For my third video, I chose "the Birth of the Middle Ages" because I wanted to see how the middle ages were like in particular countries such as Japan and Italy which are places that I want to go to. 

2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

More Human than Human: Urealistic features, difference between Realism vs. Exaggerated and the Riace Bronzes

Late Gothic Art and Architecture: England, 1400-1547: Perpendicular style, Church functioning as both a social center and place of worship, and Middle Ages

the Birth of the Middle Ages: Medieval Ages, Feudalism, Dark Ages, Monks and Monasteries

3. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?

The video Late Gothic Art and Architecture and the text relate because both speak about Gothic architecture. The videos shows how the Gothic style  castles and houses look the video tells us the reason the Gothic architecture looked the it did and this is because gods building must be more magnificent than mortals building. The text tells us specific details about Gothic architecture such as the towers looking completely different from one another. The stained glass windows, ripped vaulting and flying buttresses, all these designs  were meant to reach heaven.
The other video More Human Than Human video and text relate because the video show lots of human sculptures. Showing us how artists try so hard to make the sculptures look like actual humans with perfect bodies. Not one artists was able to make an actual sculpture that looks excacly like a human being. The text has a bunch of examples of human sculptures with  perfect bodies that don't actually look like humans. Sculptures like aphrodite of melos and laocoon group.

. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?

The videos add depth to my understanding because they answer questions like why Gothic architecture looks the way it does. It also shows us why sculptures never look like us.