A little Christmas present - introduction

In the article "Advent mood - in and from the computer" we introduced you to an advent calendar with angels, which of course is still to be called up.

Our little Christmas present to you are texts for every artist who has designed an angel of the advent calendar.

The texts are arranged in the article by time and follow in two parts in two parts in the article "A small Christmas present-angel artist to get to know".

Our little Christmas present with the angel artists to get to know also includes an idea for artistic pastime, which brings a lot of practice until spring: downloading pictures of the calendar as coloring pages (for purely private use for such purposes, you should not be able to spread, sell, etc.), in a graphic program and then print out with pictures for your own calendar.

Inexperibles only transfer the outlines with paus paper to their painting ground, advanced to the angelic images. During work, you can have the texts on the angels ready so that you know what time/which famous artist you are getting closer.

You can then put the text into a jewelry for each angel as desired, print it out, cut it out and stick to a calendar template with your pictures.

The oldest angel on the calendar is an angel from the 13th century , and it will surely increase the awe of the entire Engels art a little, if you realize that this "ancient angel" is already very young art. Because art played a major role for humans very early on, if you deal with this topic, it also becomes clear why art is so important for humans:

Art and human development

No interpretation helps: biologically man is one of the monkeys, he is a higher mammal of order primates (primates), within this member of the family of great apes (hominidae). After all, the Homo Sapiens did a lot right, he is the only kind of genus Homo that (until today, skeptics have not given him long). This has been around 200,000 years old for a while, the oldest fossil homo-sapiens skeletons from Africa.

Already the delimitation human - monkey has a little to do with art; Man had delimited himself as "the crown of creation" when he began to process and use stone tools. Such a popular approach, and it is claimed, but has not yet been proven precisely that the genus Homo shows clear distances to the nearest related genera.

The larger brain is used as a reason. The minimum volume of the homo brain was set in 1950 by a Mr. Mayr to 900 cm³. But as a really indispensable feature, this was not regarded in science, it is not always quite practical and should also prove to be practical in this case:

When the "Homo Habilis" was discovered in 1964, it was also discovered that 900 cm³ was a somewhat optimistic assumption as a lower limit, the Homo habilis only had a meager 600 cm³, very shortly over Gorilla level.

Therefore, the limit was quickly put up to this 600 cm³, safe 94 points above the Gorilla, which was set at 506 cm³. A trick, but not a good argument: in 1966 a (very large) gorilla with a skull capacity of 685 cm³ was found, which would then be a "homo gorillus" ...

Another feature is z. For example, the upright gait, which for the 70 percent of people who occasionally or constantly run around with back pain, rather a miscarriage of evolution ...

It is a little more difficult to justify why the person should be mentally superior to the rest of the living environment. No, space missiles and nuclear power and genetic engineering do not necessarily have something to do with superiority, namely it depends on who is superior and what that brings - especially when looking at these and other human miracles, some contemporosmers get into doubt about human superiority, but we still come to this.

To justify superiority ... Carl von Linné, who set up the genus Homo in 1735, did not really know, preferred to do without a delimitation of his genre in this regard and simply wrote "nosce te Ipsum" (recognize yourself) as a description of man in his font "Systema Naturæ" .

As a result, people also have his difficulties 279 years later, and it is also quite doubtful whether big brain is called clever brain at all.

Then men would be z. B. smarter than women because their brain volume is a bit larger - the skull volume of the very large gorillas cited above is already suggesting that this is wrong. A few years ago, the neuroscientific also proved this:

It is true that the brains of men sit in a larger skull on average and are about 100 g heavier than the brains of women. So the man has more brain mass. During the 19th century, this discovery was enthusiastic about underpinning the man's priority in front of the women, which was followed by the "right of the stronger" for the supporters of the then so popular social carwinism.

The great progress, which were made in the natural sciences at the time, did not ensure improvement in social coexistence, but on the contrary used to anchor the disenfranchisement of part of society even more firmly. Here it is once again very clear that "more brain" has nothing to do with "more mind" - civilization means to overcome the "right of the stronger" in favor of all living in a community.

These differences in the overall size of the brain were very suitable (and very long) as a reason for refusing women to equalize in the oh so civilized society.

A few years ago, it was now discovered that in addition to the total brain size, the relative size of different brain areas shows differences in men and women.

The hippocampus is larger for women, which is responsible for learning and memory.

Instead of this, the Ca1 region in the Hippocampus is larger in men, the space memory is in the case of spatial memory. In addition, the larger brain weight comes from an increased number of pyramid cells. They are responsible for the transfer of information received by sensory organs and for the transfer of exciting and inhibiting impulses. The pyramid cells transfer the information from other brain regions to the cortex (neuron -rich cerebral class). If there is too little excitement (frequency below 6 Hertz), the cortex switches to sleep mode.

Probably not only an explanation for post -coital sleeping fits, but also a good reason for "climbing every skirt" - who wants a sleeping cerebral cortex (and the reason for strange decisions of all the men who no longer do?).

Amygdala also works differently in men than in women: reproduction behavior, emotional events and their storage are used and processed in women from the left half of the brain, in men from the right half of the brain. The left half of the brain is half with the "awake consciousness", it processes analytical, logical, rational, linguistic and linear processes.

The right half of the brain works holistically, it is responsible for image processing and image processing, for music and creativity and for intuition, here is thought in spatial and time -independent, emotionally and body -oriented ... sounds like heretical at first, the women are responsible for emotions and also for intuition. However, with a strictly gender -specific representation, it is neglected that there is a bit or a little more man in every woman and vice versa.

these strict assignment according to the old "hemispheric model" , it is not that simple. However, we can at least capture the result that the total brain size obviously does not matter ...

In general, in a typical human self -overestimation, the delimitation after tool use is quite unjust towards the monkeys - monkeys use many tools and who makes a monkey when he monkey paintings for over 20,000 euros is a completely different question (so in 2005 in London, see mirrors .de ).

Even if the human brain is quite large, it is well a matter of the point of view whether it produces the human brain the best performance. Like any reptile that is still underdeveloped, humans prefer to select the achievements that can continue their own way. If he really was the crown of creation, he should certainly be so far to select only the results of brain performance that will continue or at least not harm every life in the world.

Man is far from it, on the contrary, he even manages to harm himself and everywhere when he puts brain births into practice. There are a lot of types that have "conceived" better paths (developed in evolution): from the plants pollinating bee over the many different tiny ranges who are responsible for soil processing and thus for soil formation, down to the several hundred different types of bacteria in the human body (around 2 kg), without which he would miserably die - big brain is not good brain.

In any case, the pictures of the Affen Congo tell of spiritual suggestion through artistic activity, Picasso had hung a "real Congo" and in 2012 there was a very exhibition of animal art at London University College.

With art of chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas, paintings by elephants and architectural miracles that build lively birds their future loved ones.

Here are further animal art to look at:

• Laubenvögel-Sprachtpalästen
• Even more Laubenvögel splendid palaces
• A real artist among the arbor birds

It is undisputed in this overall complex that culture (in addition to genetics and brain development, ecological and social interactions) played a significant role in the importance.

A person depends on social bonds, on childhood care and care of his conspecifics, on language acquisition and promoting his facilities, intellectual and cultural. So that he becomes human and remains human.

The cultural factors (art) therefore still play a significant role in the incarnation - or today ensure that people stay human, and thus the whole paragraph has explained one of the decisive aspects that makes art so important to us.

That is why people discovered art early on , first in the context of cultic cultures. Already in the Paleolithic period there was painting and sculpture, music and dance : in the Lonetal (Baden-Württemberg) almost 40,000-year-old ivory figures were found, a little older flutes in a cave near Blaubeuren (Geißenklösterle) and in the Chauvet cave in the French Department of Ardèche Wonderful High Calls from a recent section of the world, they are "first" around 30,000 years old.

It was the first things that made our ancestors without direct benefits for life preservation. This art acted as an indicator of the emergence of human consciousness and human thinking - anthropologists see the transition from Homo sapiens to Homo sapiens Intellectus .

In antiquity, art has already developed into an impressive championship : in the late ancient cultures, in the old kingdom of Egypt, in classic Greece and late Rome there was a wealth of wonderful works of art, some of which are still preserved today. Architecture, sculptures, frescoes and painting, plays and music.

And with all of this, we can see that the ancient "Artes Liberales" (free arts, concept of art differs from today's) because they were a priority of the free man.

At that time, the entire spectrum of intellectual spiritual activity was one of the Artes Liberales: grammar, dialectics, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetics, astronomy, partly also medicine and architecture. Of our “beautiful arts”, only the music included (painting and sculpture was considered a craft, at that time the argument began what art and what is craft and what is handicrafts) .

However, this is about something else: the art and thus the thinking activity was reserved for the free man, and the exercise of this (thinking) art broke in when the freedom of people was limited, by the war acts and upheavals during the migration period in the Middle Ages.

The concept of art will change, but the principle will remain the same: if art becomes less, thinking and freedom become less, and that is another aspect of the large position of art in a free society - art is important for today's people so that thinking can change direction without restriction.

Art from the 13th to the 21st century

Because art is so important for people, we as a reader of the blog for Christmas we give you a little "overview of art" , for better clarity about the pictures of the angels from the advent calendar.

It is art from the 13th century when the art of antiquity merges into the art of the Middle Ages. Humanity and art in the turmoil of the Middle Ages had just experienced a huge step backwards. Slowly you rapped again and remembered art and art, even more anxious and concentrated on a religious content of the representation, as on angels.

In the article "A small Christmas present-angel artist to get to know" the works of art are presented to you after their time of origin, a walk through art history.

For orientation, a list of artists and their works of art in the order of the calendar pictures:

• Entrance side: Fra Angelico, 1387 - 1455, "The Annunciation" from a main panel of the altar re -trap to the life of Mary, 1433 to 1434.
• December 1: Titian, 1488-1576, "Resurrection of Christ", left table from the Averoldi altarpolyptych, preaching angel made from a scene above, 1520 to 1522.
• December 2: Inga Schnekenburger, 1949 - 2013, "The Angel of John", 2002.
• December 3: Gentile de Fabriano, 1370 - 1427, "Angel of Annunciation", left Giebeltondo from the "adoration of the three kings", manufactured in 1423.
• December 4: Inga Schnekenburger, 1949 - 2013, "Time is progressing".
• December 5: Carlo Crivelli, 1430/1435 - before 1500, detail from "Maria Announcement", created in 1486.
• December 6th: Unknown Russian artist, "Saint Nicholas", created icon around 1665.
• December 7: Benozzo Gozzoli, 1420 - 1497, "Adult Angel", detail from an altar, was created between 1460 and 1480.
• December 8: Hubert van Eyck, 1370 - 1426, "Music Engel" from the "Genter Altar", which according to today's knowledge was made solely by Jan van Eyck 1426 - 1432.
• December 9: Inga Schnekenburger, 1949 - 2013, "Guardian angel".
• December 10: Hubert van Eyck, 1370 - 1426, "Annexion angel" from the Genter Altar of the mystical lamb, see above 8.
• December 11th: Master of the Wilton Diptychon, "Jungfrau Mary with eleven angels" from the right wing of the Wilton Diptychon, emerged around 1395.
• December 12: Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn, 1606 - 1669, details from "Jakob's struggle with the angel", created in 1659.
• December 13: Giotto di Bondone, 1266-1337, "Meerful Angel", detail from a fresco cycle in the Scrovegni chapel in Padua, 1304-1306.
• December 14: Filippino Lippi, 1457 - 1504, "Tobias and the Angel", created between 1472 and 1482.
• December 15: Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn, 1606 - 1669, details from "Prophet Bileam and the donkey", created painting in 1626.
• December 16: Bavarian champion, "Annunciation to Maria", created around 1500.
• December 17: Domenico Beccafumi, 1494 - 1551, "Annunciation", 1545 or 1546 paintings.
• December 18: Melchior Broederlam, around 1380 - 1410, "Annunciation" from the left wing of an altar for Philipp the Kühnen, were built in 1398.
• December 19: Ssemjon Fedorowitsch Uschakow, around 1626 - 1686, "Archangel Gabriel", Russian icon from the 2nd third of the 17th century.
• December 20: Pietro Perugino, around 1445/48 - 1523, "Archangel Michael", detail from "Maria Himmelfahrt with four saints", 1500 paintings created.
• December 21: William Blake, 1757 - 1827, "Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eva", 1808 painted and watercolor.
• December 22: Master of Ursula legend, around 1480-1510, "Appearance of the Angel" from the Ursula cycle, was created around 1500.
• December 23: Friedrich Herlin, 2nd half of the 15th century, "Birth of Christ" from the wing of a not preserved polyptych, was built 2. Half 15th century.
• December 24: Hugo van der Goes, around 1140-1482, "angel", detail from the Portinari altar, was created between 1476 and 1478.

Now continue to the texts, Kunstplaza wishes you a lot of fun and a Merry Christmas!

Lina cream

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