Art of the Americas Before 1300 -  OLMEC

monumental sculpture

-  TEOTIHUACAN architecture and architectural sculpture

-  MAYA: Palenque Palace, Temple and Sculpture

-  Painted vase + Ballgame

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/cracking-maya-code.html

------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Digital Media Collection Work Record ID Fig12_3 Work Type - Category sculpture Rights Statement For Educational or Research Purposes Only. Please direct questions of use in academic publications to reference@newschool.edu. Any commercial use is strictly prohibited. Title Colossal head Display Measurement height: 7 ft 5 in Material basalt Source Prentice-Hall Stokstad DVD Display Date circa 900 - 400 BCE Location - State or Province Tabasco Location - Country Mexico Location La Venta Culture Olmec Image ID 5009259 Resolution Size 5 Format JP2 Media Type Image File Name Fig12_3.jp2 Width 2000 Height 2758

COLOSSAL HEAD, San Lorenzo, Mexico, Olmec Culture, c. 1200-900 BCE, h. 7’5”

CONTEXT: OLMEC

1500-400 BCE

------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Digital Media Collection Work Record ID Fig12_3 Work Type - Category sculpture Rights Statement For Educational or Research Purposes Only. Please direct questions of use in academic publications to reference@newschool.edu. Any commercial use is strictly prohibited. Title Colossal head Display Measurement height: 7 ft 5 in Material basalt Source Prentice-Hall Stokstad DVD Display Date circa 900 - 400 BCE Location - State or Province Tabasco Location - Country Mexico Location La Venta Culture Olmec Image ID 5009259 Resolution Size 5 Format JP2 Media Type Image File Name Fig12_3.jp2 Width 2000 Height 2758

COLOSSAL HEAD, San Lorenzo, Mexico, Olmec Culture, c. 1200-900 BCE, h. 7’5”

Mask, 10th–6th cenT. BCE, Olmecm, Jadeite H. 6 ¾” Metropolitan Museum, NY,

------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Digital Media Collection Work Record ID Fig12_3 Work Type - Category sculpture Rights Statement For Educational or Research Purposes Only. Please direct questions of use in academic publications to reference@newschool.edu. Any commercial use is strictly prohibited. Title Colossal head Display Measurement height: 7 ft 5 in Material basalt Source Prentice-Hall Stokstad DVD Display Date circa 900 - 400 BCE Location - State or Province Tabasco Location - Country Mexico Location La Venta Culture Olmec Image ID 5009259 Resolution Size 5 Format JP2 Media Type Image File Name Fig12_3.jp2 Width 2000 Height 2758

COLOSSAL HEAD, San Lorenzo, Mexico, Olmec Culture, c. 1200-900 BCE, h. 7’5”

-Formal qualities: standard elements+individualized features Debate: realistic or stylized? monumentality (size, shape), exotic materials, environmental sculpture -iconography: recurrent elements had probably religious meanings -Subject Matter: ballplayers? rulers? Idea of leadership?

Teotihuacan (100BC-700CE ca.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMsIyFGnLQA

north-south axis : symbol of the cosmos

------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Digital Media Collection Work Record ID Fig12_5 Work Type - Category architecture Work Type temple Work Type - Detail plan Rights Statement For Educational or Research Purposes Only. Please direct questions of use in academic publications to reference@newschool.edu. Any commercial use is strictly prohibited. Title Ceremonial Center of Teotihuacan Source Prentice-Hall Stokstad DVD Description south direction at top of plan Display Date 350 - 650 Culture Teotihuacan Image ID 5009260 Resolution Size 4 Format JPEG Media Type Image File Name Fig12_5.jpg Width 1037 Height 1351

PYRAMID OF THE SUN 100-650 CE

FUNCTION: funerary monuments and scenography for liturgy

TALUD-TABLERO STYLE

PYRAMID OF THE MOON 100-650 CE

CITADEL

Pyramid built ca. 200 CE destroied ca. 300 CE Adosada Platform

------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Digital Media Collection Work Record ID 23642 Work Type - Category architecture Title Temple of the Feathered Serpent Source Stokstad 2nd Ed. Creator Name unknown Display Date after 350 CE Location TEOTIHUACAN Location MEXICO ID Number 1205 ID Number Type chapter, plate ID Number 12-6 Style/Period Term Teotihuacan Image ID 5000573 Resolution Size 5 Format JP2 Media Type Image File Name 23642.jp2 Width 1612 Height 2172

FORMAL: geometricized, abstracted, squared forms, registers

Originally colored

Iconography imaginary mix of serpent and bird

Quetzal bird

Flying serpent: combination duality earth / sky

Feather headdress of Moctezuma, late 15th early 16th cent., quetzal, macaw, other feathers on a reed frame, Aztec culture

The Mother Goddess Coatlicue, 15th cent., stone, Aztec culture

Maya ruler receiving quetzal feathers for his crown, 8th cent

------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Digital Media Collection Work Record ID 23644 Work Type - Category architecture Title Temple of the Inscriptions Source Stokstad 2nd Ed. Description view of "Palace" (foreground) and Temple of the Inscriptions (tomb-pyramid of Lord Pacal) Creator Name unknown Display Date 7th century CE Location Palenque Location MEXICO ID Number 1205 ID Number Type chapter, plate ID Number 12-9 Style/Period Term Mayan Image ID 5000575 Resolution Size 5 Format JP2 Media Type Image File Name 23644.jp2 Width 1760 Height 1960

PALENQUE PALACE AND TEMPLE OF THE INSCRIPTIONS, Palenque, Mexico. Maya Culture, 5th – 8th cent. CE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCs86ZrxX9k

MAYA

PALACE, Palenque Mexico. Maya Culture, 5th – 8th cent. CE

TEMPLE OF THE INSCRIPTIONS, Palenque, Mexico. Maya Culture, 5th – 8th cent. CE

ROOF COMB

------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Digital Media Collection Work Record ID img006294 Work Type - Category sculpture Title Portrait of Lord Pacal Display Measurement 43 cm Material stucco Technique carving Source Stokstad 2nd Ed. Description This portrait was found with his sarcophagus in his tomb at the Temple of the Inscriptions. The portrait shows Lord Pacal as a young man with features typical of ideal Mayan beauty. Creator Name unknown Display Date circa mid-7th century CE Repository Mexico City, Mexico, Museo Nacional de Antropologia e Historia Location Type Country Location MEXICO Location Palenque Location Type discovery site ID Number Type chapter, plate ID Number 12-11 Style/Period Term Classic Culture Maya Subject ruler Image ID 5001540 Resolution Size 6 Format JP2 Media Type Image File Name 12-11.jp2 Width 2226 Height 3347

------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Digital Media Collection Work Record ID img006294 Work Type - Category sculpture Title Portrait of Lord Pacal Display Measurement 43 cm Material stucco Technique carving Source Stokstad 2nd Ed. Description This portrait was found with his sarcophagus in his tomb at the Temple of the Inscriptions. The portrait shows Lord Pacal as a young man with features typical of ideal Mayan beauty. Creator Name unknown Display Date circa mid-7th century CE Repository Mexico City, Mexico, Museo Nacional de Antropologia e Historia Location Type Country Location MEXICO Location Palenque Location Type discovery site ID Number Type chapter, plate ID Number 12-11 Style/Period Term Classic Culture Maya Subject ruler Image ID 5001540 Resolution Size 6 Format JP2 Media Type Image File Name 12-11.jp2 Width 2226 Height 3347

PORTRAIT OF PAKAL THE GREAT, From Pakal’s tomb, Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque, Mexico. Maya Culture, mid 7th cent CE. Stucco and red paint. H. ca. 16”, Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City

Realism and ideal of beauty

MAIZE

Cylindrical vessel with ritual ballgame scene, Maya culture c . A.D. 700-850, Ceramic 8 1/16 x 6 1/4 in. (20.7 x 15.9 cm) Dallas Museum of Art http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYOJkRWifAo

one player on his knee to return the ball with his padded right hip

-  ball game was both a popular sport and a ritual event -  reenactment of the primordial game: mythical Hero Twins played against

the lords of the underworld (metaphor of life, death, and regeneration) -  Debate on human sacrifices

FORMAL: -  Composite poses -  Dynamism (figures in action) -  Single register -  Linear approach: free, loose, improvisational style -  Yet, detailed and carefully composed -  2D -  Warm, saturated colors:red & orange on cream with small amounts of black -  Interaction text/image