1) I chose the video, Beyond the Classical Byzantine and Later Greek Art because it sounded different than the others and I have no prior knowledge of this period of art.
2) There were a couple of concepts that I found interesting in More Human Than Human. Sometimes you wonder about what inspired humans to do what they did, it is always self serving or else it wouldn't get done, like creating images of the gods to be seen and worshipped. Another key concept is how the bodies in Greek sculpture's progressed to perfection and then when they got there decided that fantasy was better.
During the Byzantine period much of the art work reflected what was going on in society like who was ruling now. Paintings depicted who was winning the wars the Greeks or the Turks.
3) The videos fill in some of the details that the text doesn't have room for. Like that trade between Greece and Egypt allowed techniques to be shared, giving the Greeks the skills to life size their statues. The Beyond video gave insight into the context of the artwork from its region and time period.
4) Both videos were good, its was interesting to have noted that we humans seem to prefer exaggeration to reality. Not surprising I guess. It is nice to know that we haven't become so much less fit than our ancestors, they didn't look that way either. The videos do give a lot of context to the art we see, why things are presented as they are and what they represented in that era.
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