Class Notes

• Renaissance - Venice is wealthy and can afford to get into art.  Trade booms allow tomato and potatoes to be shipped from the 'new world.'
• Judging Art - Instead of simply saying that you like a piece of art, say, "it speaks to me."  AKA, I get it, I get what DaVinchi is telling me...  What does this mean?  How does it make you feel?  What's the purpose?
• Change in time period often reflects and correlates with a shift in the Meaning/Presence Pendulum.
• Brunalesky designs dome for church - kicks off the renaissance.  Also discovers linear perspective (road disappearing into the horizon).
• Gothic cathedrals are ginormous and give the feeling that the you are so small in comparison to everything...
• Raffael - Triangles, Pyramid schemes in his paintings, human elements.
• School of Athens - Looking into Rafael's golden age.  Famous artist, scientists, philosophers... all that had died by the time of the painting.  Rafael chose people he'd like to meet/hang out with. 
• Doc Mack - "...set aside the pieces of a culture that you don't understand or agree with and find the things of good report/praiseworthy."
• Hamlet - Hamlet's problem is that he doesn't act!  He sits on his decision fort so long that as a result, a lot of people die!