In the north during the beginning of the renaissance art period the artists were truly brilliant in their art and the ideas they have created for future art. I think the two major idea valued in the northern renaissance were religious values and realism. Royalty usually provided the funding for the works of art in the northern renaissance time.
Realism was what I believed to be the first valued artistic style they mentioned in the documentary. The Northern Renaissance was a time that brought dimension to the art world. Dimension is an art style that brought true realism to the artist’s pieces. Based on the dimensional work of the renaissance art we can see the realism in these pieces. Realism being the actual depiction of the object, it is set apart from the abstract. It’s how we have the tendency to view things as they really are. The world is a three dimensional place and the fact that the northern renaissance time was able to depict this in their art. The renaissance was the time of dimension and bringing realism into art.
Religion has been valued in many times of art, but the renaissance was one of the most involved in their religious values. Their tapestries best described their religious stories. They, not surprisingly, showed realism in their tapestry as they were able to tell a story. These tapestries were woven with silver and gold twine and were able to depict various religious stories.
Renaissance truly marks the modern world in art. Based on the dimension, and realism brought to art we were able to evolve from that and create masterpieces. The renaissance intertwined their art with their religious beliefs leaving us with a better understanding of their world and what their culture valued compared to our values today. It’s an interesting time to look at and see their values in the values of modern time art.
I really enjoyed how your post is really clear in its layout and you did a great job of picking out the "ideas" that were important to the artists of the Northern Renaissance. It would have been cool to have heard more about the artists mentioned during the documentary like Jan Van Eyck or Claus Sluter, but I did really enjoy reading your post because you mentioned a few things that I didn't mention in my post. For example how the use of tapestry's was widely popular in this period. Also I liked how you compared the religious beliefs of the people during the northern Renaissance as shown in their art then compared to the religious values of people in the 21st century. Which is a pretty interesting thing to compare and think about because I feel like the two time have very different religious values!
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ReplyDeleteYour post was good because it was clear and straight to the main points and dont just have a bunch of things that don't matter. I like how you talked about dimension in the art works that give them realistic quality's because the realistic quality are usually described in the way the face looked and the details in the human body and the clothes, not as the dimension.
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