把照片變成插畫的方法

http://www.fanhow.com/knowhow:Turn_photo_into_dithered_line_art_drawing_33237425
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/photo-to-sketch.html
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/portrait-to-sketch/page-2.php

Make your own ebook

http://www.ezau.com/latest/articles/create-ebook.shtml

http://www.lulu.com/blog/2010/03/12/how-to-make-an-ebook-anyone-can-read/


http://www.skelliewag.org/how-to-create-and-publish-your-own-ebook-with-a-0-budget-53.htm
How to make an ebook to help build website traffic


http://www.hypergurl.com/blog/website-traffic/make-ebooks.html
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/ebookpublishing.shtml

I am getting back to my interest in making a paper book or e-book becasue I am writing my memoir.
I suggested to my instructor about it and she showed me that what they did in the past. It was nice but I feel it needs more design element.

I will have one week off school so I can focus on the design part. I am also reading up some other memoir writing teaching books.

A bit nervous about tomorrow's quiz on art history and I want to know how to write about Shaman.

Today we are going to beach with Eugenia's big family. We have seen each other for many months and we are leaving for Taiwan in two months. The house is rented out and John will have two job interveiws on Friday.

I am happier and seem to find a direction in my life again. Many books wait for me to The students in my memoir writing class are fun. Some did not show up regularly and I guess they did not like the class as much as I do. It just proves that it is all in our perspective of life and in different period of time, our needs would be different.

Schoool makes people feel performance anxiety and it makes me feel that way sometimes. I still need to have a place where I just do art and writing for fun and not for publishing.

And it is more important than anything else.

free for all 手工書免費分享網

http://www.fimp.net/freef.html

An exhibition of artists' books for you to download and assemble. Eight artists give you their work, absolutely free.


Print them, make them, and spread them around.

This exhibition explores the boundary between cyberspace and "the real world", as the show is only finished when you the visitor have downloaded and assembled your own books. Essentially, the exhibit exists when you create it.


In that spirit, we would love to see your show - let us know where the books live, and send photos if you can!

FREE FOR ALL can be reached at freeforall (at) fimp (dot) net.

藝術史小考三

http://www.historywiz.com/minoanreligion.htm

Snake Goddess (priest)
c. 1600 bce, Greece, Clay, faience


Bull leaping fresco (painted plaster) from a wall of the Palace at Knossos. A male and female.
1450-1400 bce

Origin: Palace of Knossos. Height of restored fresco 78.2 cm.




Gold mask from Mycenae.
Greece
Funerary gold mask known as "Schliemann's Agamemnon", found in Shaft grave V of Grave Circle A at Mycenae. 
1699-1500 bce.
 
 
Suicide of Ajax by Exekias (roughly 540 B.C.)
http://thouarthistory.blogspot.com/2009/03/for-your-own-analysis-suicide-of-ajax.html
 

This is a painting on a terracotta amphora, which is a type of vase or jug that was used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing food and wine. The adornment is in “black figure,” which means that it contains black figuration on a red background. It is painted by undoubtedly the most famous (and my favorite) black-figure artist and potter, Exekias. Exekias possessed the unique ability to convert black-figure style from a style that could not show a lot of detail to one that is rich in detail and transmits so much sentiment. Exekias actually invented this type of pottery (more specifically called the belly amphora.)

The belly-amphora has a continuous profile from lip to foot. It is usually lidded.

http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/pottery/shapes/belly.htm

http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/peplos_kore/

Peplos Kore is the best known exhibit in the Museum of Classical Archaeology. It is a plaster cast of an ancient Greek statue of a young woman (kore means young woman or girl in ancient Greek), wearing a garment called a peplos. She is painted brightly as the original would have been, which was set up on the Acropolis in Athens, around 530 BCE.

http://www.ancient-greece.org/images/museums/acropolis-mus/pages/110_1024b_jpg.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kritios_Boy

The muscle groups are described with accuracy, and the skeletal system of the figure is well understood as a shaping force.


 the Kritios (or Kritian) Boy
The Kritios Boy


The Kritios boy belongs to the Late Archaic period and is considered the precursor to the later classical sculptures of athletes. The Kritios or Kritian boy was thus named because it is believed to be the creation of Krito, the teacher of Myron, from around 480 BCE. The statue is made of marble and is considerably smaller than life-size at 1.17 m (3 ft 10 ins).



With the Kritios Boy the Greek artist has mastered a complete understanding of how the different parts of the body act as a system. The statue supports its body on one leg, the left, whiles the right one is bent at the knee in a relaxing state. This stance forces a chain of anatomical events as the pelvis is pushed diagonally upwards on the left side, the right buttock relaxes, the spine acquires an “S” curve, and the shoulder line dips on the left to counteract the action of the pelvis (contra-posto).


The Kritios Boy exhibits a number of other critical innovations that distinguish it from the Archaic Kouroi that paved its way. The muscular and skeletal structure are depicted with unforced life-like accuracy, with the rib cage naturally expanded as if in the act of breathing, with a relaxed attitude and hips which are distinctly narrower. As a final fore bearer of the classical period, the “smile” of Archaic statues has been completely replaced by the accurate rendering of the lips and the austere expression that characterized the transitional, or “Severe” period from the Archaic to the Classical era.

Marble, 0.86 m tall, c. 480 BCE (Acropolis Museum)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charioteer_of_Delphi
The Charioteer of Delphi, also known as Heniokhos (the rein-holder), is one of the best-known statues surviving from Ancient Greece, and is considered one of the finest examples of ancient bronze statues. The life-size statue of a chariot driver was found in 1896 at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. It is now in the Delphi Archaeological Museum.

Polykleitos was an ancient Greek sculptor working during the mid to late 5th century BC. His work has been admired throughout history for his original approach to beauty, proportion and form, and he is considered one of the great masters of the classical world. The two main features of his work are the concentration he pays to proportion (the ‘Canon’) and composition (the contrapposto). His statues are usually nude, choosing to explore the feel and movement of flesh and muscle rather than drapery. One of his most famous and influential statues was the bronze Doryphoros, or Spear Bearer, of which only later copies remain.

http://www.suite101.com/content/the-ancient-greek-sculptor-polykleitos-a210232

Bronze Discus Thrower of Myron


http://www.suite101.com/content/the-discobolos-bronze-discus-thrower-of-myron-a223265
Myron’s most famous bronze sculpture is the Discobolus (Discus Thrower), a statue portraying an athlete caught mid-swing as he prepares to throw his discus. What makes the statue so unique and captivating is the specific moment Myron has chosen to depict. The discus thrower has been captured in the momentary pause between two actions – back swing and forwards throw. By choosing this particular snapshot of the action, Myron has gone further than simply exploring motion in his statue. With the Discobolus, he has managed to capture two separate and opposite movements, as well as to create a sense of potential motion in the tensed body. The statue looks as if it is merely pausing, about to burst into life at any moment.

Who built the Parthenon in Athens?


The Parthenon was designed by Phidias, a famous sculptor, at the behest of Pericles, a Greek politician credited with the founding of the city of Athens and with stimulating the so-called "Golden Age of Greece". The Greek architects Ictinos and Callicrates supervised the practical work of the consturction. Alternate spellings for these names include Iktinos, Kallikrates, and Pheidias - there is no official transliteration of Greek into English.

http://gogreece.about.com/od/athenssightseeing1/a/parthenonathens.htm
What was in the Parthenon?

Many treasures would have been displayed in the building, but the glory of the Parthenon was the gigantic statue of Athena designed by Phidias and made out of chryselephantine (elephant ivory) and gold.

When was the Parthenon built?

Work on the building began in 447 BCE and continued until 438 BCE; some of the decorations were completed later. It was built over the site of an earlier temple which is sometimes called the Pre-Parthenon.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/f/figures_of_3_goddesses.aspx
Three Goddesses from east pediment of the Parthenon. c. 438-432 B.C. Marble. The British Museum, London

art history

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/d/discus-thrower_discobolus.aspx
http://www.harveyabramsbooks.com/501c3discusa1.html

The Discus Thrower


aka: Discobolos, Discobolus

Myron, circa 460 - 450 B.C.E.

Townley Collection, British Museum,

London, England



http://puffin.creighton.edu/eselk/intro-phil_on-line-course/Intro-phl-ol_Plato_Apology-Crito/Parthenon-history-sculpture_pg3.htm

http://puffin.creighton.edu/eselk/intro-phil_on-line-course/Intro-phl-ol_Plato_Apology-Crito/Parthenon-history-sculpture_pg3.htm
Three Goddeses from East Pediment of the Parthenon. c.438-432 BC, British Museum, London


Creator Greek Art

Period Greek

Media Sculpture

Description Three Goddesses from East Pediment, Parthenon. Marble, over life-size, British Museum

The Doryphoros (Greek δορυφόρος, "Spear-Bearer"; Latinized as Doryphorus) is one of the best known Greek sculptures of the classical era in Western Art and an early example of Greek classical contrapposto. The lost bronze original would have been made at approximately 450-400 BC.


The Greek sculptor Polykleitos designed a work, perhaps this one, as an example of the "canon" or "rule", showing the perfectly harmonious and balanced proportions of the human body in the sculpted form. A solid-built athlete with muscular features carries a spear balanced on his left shoulder. In the surviving Roman marble copies, a marble tree stump is added to support the weight of the marble. A characteristic of Polykleitos' Doryphoros is the classical contrapposto in the pelvis; the figure's stance is such that one leg seems to be in movement while he is standing on the other.

Exekias (a Greek name) or Execias (Latinization) was an ancient Greek vase-painter and potter, who worked between approximately 550 BC - 525 BC at Athens. The pottery, however, was exported to other regions, such as Etruria. Exekias worked mainly with the technique called black-figure. It was only used for a relatively short time and dates his floruit. He is considered the best or one of the best of the black-figure vase painters. portrays a moment not all that rare among professional military men. Ajax has been passed over for promotion in favor of Odysseus and now, if he cannot win the honor on which he has set his mind, he will not live. Warriors seek honor and glory (kleos) on the battlefield by killing others. Now the warrior whose kleos has failed off the battlefield kills himself.

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Bios/Exekias.html

The suicide of Ajax

The shield decorated with the protecting Gorgoneion has been laid aside. Ajax is now vulnerable. He plants the sword of destruction in the earth, crouching over it, turning his back on the tree of life. Shortly he will fall on the sword

地下迷宮--克里特文化

http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/0/11/21/c2911.htm




在遠古的時代，有位國王叫彌諾斯，他統治著愛琴海的一個島嶼克里特島。彌諾斯的兒子在雅典的阿提刻被人陰謀殺害了。為了替兒子復仇，彌諾斯向雅典的人民挑戰。在神的懲罰下，雅典正充滿災荒和瘟疫。在彌諾斯的挑戰下，雅典人向彌諾斯王求和。彌諾斯要求他們每隔９年送７對童男童女到克里特島。

　　彌諾斯在克里特島建造一座有無數宮殿的迷宮，迷宮中道路曲折縱橫，誰進去都別想出來。在迷宮的縱深處，彌諾斯養了一隻人身牛頭的野獸米諾牛。雅典每次送來的７對童男童女都是供奉給米諾牛吃的。

　　這一年，又是供奉童男童女的年頭了。有童男童女的家長們都惶恐不安。雅典的國王愛琴的兒子忒修斯看到人們遭受這樣的不幸而深深不安。他決心和童男童女們一起出發，並發誓要殺死米諾牛。

　　雅典民眾在一片哭泣的悲哀聲中，送別忒修斯在內的七對童男童女。忒修斯和父親約定，如果殺死米諾牛，他在返航時就把船上的黑帆變成白帆。只要船上的黑帆變成白的，就證明愛琴國王能再見到自己的兒子忒修斯了。

　　忒修斯領著童男童女在克里特上岸了。他的英俊瀟洒引起彌修斯國王的女兒，美麗聰明的阿里阿德涅公主的注意。公主向忒修斯表示了自己的愛慕之情，並偷偷和他相會。當她知道忒修斯的使命後，她送給他一把魔劍和一個線球，以免忒修斯受到米諾牛的傷害。

　　聰明而勇敢的忒修斯一進入迷宮，就將線球的一端拴在迷宮的入口處，然後放開線團，沿著曲折複雜的通道，向迷宮深處走去。最後，他終於找到了怪物米諾牛。他抓住米諾牛的角，用阿里阿德涅公主給的劍，奮力殺死米諾牛。然後，他帶著童男童女，順著線路走出了迷宮。為了預防彌諾斯國王的追擊，他們鑿穿了海邊所有克里特船的船底。阿里阿德涅公主幫助他們，並和他們一起逃出了克里特島，啟航回國。經過幾天的航行，終於又看到祖國雅典了。忒修斯和他的伙伴興奮異常，又唱又跳，但他忘了和父親的約定，沒有把黑帆改成白帆。翹首等待兒子歸來的愛琴國王在海邊等待兒子的歸來，當他看到歸來的船掛的仍是黑帆時，以為兒子已被米諾牛吃了，他悲痛欲絕，跳海自殺了。為了紀念琴愛國王，他跳入的那片海，從此就叫愛琴海。

　　１９００年，英國考古學家阿瑟﹒伊文思和他率領的考古隊來到了地中海的克里特島，他們想找出傳說中有關迷宮的歷史古蹟。經過三年的艱苦發掘，他們終於在克里特島的克諾薩斯發現了彌諾斯王宮的遺址和大量文物，找到了迷宮。迷宮坐落在克諾薩斯一座叫做凱夫拉山的緩坡上，佔地面積有２２０００平方米，有大小宮室１５００多間，周圍曾經古木參天。迷宮由東宮和西宮，由國寶殿、王后寢宮、有宗教意義的雙斧宮、樓房、貯藏室、倉庫等組成。佔地１４００多平方米的長方形中央庭院把東宮和西宮聯結為一個整體。位於高坡地位的西宮大部分宮室是三層建築。這些華麗的建築物之間，有長廊、門廳、通道和階梯相連，真是千門萬戶，曲經通幽。這些建築廊道迂回、宮室交替，一走進去特別難於找到出路，說它是迷宮，真是恰到好處。直到今天，人們仍用“迷宮”這個詞比喻錯綜複雜，難以找到明確方向的東西呢。在迷宮的牆上，還有壁畫。這些壁畫歷經３０００多年，但剛出土時，還色澤鮮豔。牆上的壁畫有鬥牛戲的內容，這些也許和希臘神話中所說的南海迷宮和宮中飼養的吃童男童女的人頭牛身怪物米諾牛的情節隱隱約約相符合。在宮殿的長廊中，有表現國王、貴族活動和集合的壁畫。有一幅是塑造王國的，他戴的王冠是用百合花編成的，他脖子上戴著項圈，手上套著鐲子，正在百花叢中散步。有的壁畫中，男子們拿著金銀器皿，女子們穿著鑲白邊的黑裙，體態婀娜，神情栩栩如生。

　　在迷宮中，還發現了２０００多快泥板，上面刻著許多由線條構成的文字。在一些印章和器皿上也發現了一樣的文字，後人學者稱它為線形文字。一直到１９５３年，才有學者破譯了這些線形文字的意思，原來它記載著王宮財物的帳目，其中有國王向各地徵收貢賦的情況，計算法是十進位。這些文字和古希臘使用的文字只有細徽的不同，從中可以推算出也許克里特島文化和希臘文化之間有密切的聯繫。

　　在迷宮的周圍，還發現有豪華的住宅，裡面居然有冷熱水管俱全的浴室。在豪華住宅的旁邊，有極為簡陋的小屋和茅舍，這顯然是窮人和奴隸居住的地方。

　　由於地下迷宮的發現，人們發現了公元前１５世紀曾有過的燦爛文明，這一文明被後人譽為“克里特文化”。

labyrinch 迷宮,迷津(= maze)


(花園等中的)曲徑
【希神】(Crete 島國王 Minos 為囚禁 Minotaur 而命令 Daedalus 建造的)迷宮

meander (河的)迂迴曲折,蜿蜒,彎曲;曲曲折折的道路,迷宮
【建】迴紋波形飾