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Sculptures and Painting for:

Religion and the Visual Arts

I. The Circle of Greek Art:

1. Archaic god or goddess. (Expressionistic)

2. Classical god or goddess and human figure. (Idealistic)

3. Naturalistic " " " " " "

4. Archa-istic Greek: Roman figure or god. (Expressionistic)

II. Analogies in the West till 1900

a] Expressionistic predominance

1. A Catacomb and a Byzantine picture (classical-idealistic elements)

2. A Romanesc crucifixion (or similarly ex- pressive = distorted.)

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3. A Gothic religious sculpture.

4. A Francis-scene by Giotto^j (Beyond the categories)

b] Naturalistic-idealistic predominance.

1. Masaccio^l or/and Perugino^m

2. Dolci ⁿas "beautifying naturalism".

3. Watteau^p (or Fragonard^q) as "playing naturalism"

4. Caravaggio^s as "aggressive naturalism". (or/and Goya^u)

5. Optical naturalism or impressionism (Monet^x)

6. American naturalism (Homer^z?)

7. Courbet^aa (Corot^ab)

8. Rembrandt^ac old man or woman. (Beyond the categories)

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III. African-Asian analogies

1. Negro mask.

2. Mexican god.

3. Chinese landscape.

expressive [regarding 1., 2., 3.]

4. Buddha statue (classical=expressive)

IV. Contemporary Art

1. Cézanne^ag (if possible self-portrait)

2. Van Gogh^ah (if possible: the chair.)

3.  A Fauve.

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4. A cubist picture by Picasso^aj

5. A surrealist picture (Dali^al: The watches?)

6. A memory of primitive art: Klee^am.

7. Non-objective art or "abstract expressionism" (Honest acknowlegment of a predicament.)

8. The attempts to become figural again. (De Kooning^ao?)