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    Life of Albrecht Dürer

    Life of Albrecht Dürer
    Albrecht Dürer was born May 12, 1471, the son of a goldsmith (“Albrecht Dürer”). He was the second of eight siblings ("Albrecht Dürer"). Dürer showed proficiency in art from a young age. By the time of his death, he was Germany's most famous artist (Deuchler 5). He died April 6th, 1528 (“Albrecht Dürer”).
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    Image: “Albrecht Dürer” Wikipedia, 30 Aug. 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer.
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    Renaissance Values- Skepticism

    Renaissance Values- Skepticism
    Through our research, we determined that Albrecht Dürer strongly showed the Renaissance values of skepticism and humanism. Dürer did not stick with the old and religious art that was typical of his time. Instead, he was always looking for new techniques and created a good amount of secular art, which was not common in his time. This displayed the value of skepticism.
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    Image: “Young Hare” Wikipedia, 29 Nov. 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hare.
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    Renaissance Values- Humanism

    Renaissance Values- Humanism
    Dürer studied the human body and its proportions ("Describing Albrecht"). He had people as the focus in many of his artworks. This shows the value of humanism. He has also studied geometry and was a mathematician. Many humanists believed strongly in education.
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    Image: “Albrecht Dürer's Human Proportions.” UT Health Science Center Library, 27 Mar. 2021, library.uthscsa.edu/2012/03/albrecht-durers-human-proportions/.

  • Artwork Description

    This artwork is a drawing depicting a city at night. In the bottom right is Dürer. In the center left, under the light, is a lady whom Dürer is looking at. We chose to do this because we believe that if Dürer was alive today, he would display the modern day values of creativity, social status, and beauty. We also believe that Dürer would have made his art very busy and detailed, thus, we chose to do a pencil drawing.

  • Thought Process

    After looking over several of Dürer's woodcuts, we noticed that they tended to be very busy. In almost every inch of the woodcuts, something was going on. His art was also very detailed, so we decided to use a medium that would allow us to add lots of detail, thus, the pencil and paper. In both our artwork and Dürer's woodcuts, there is detail and a lot going on.

  • Current Values Displayed by the Art

    Creativity- Our artwork has been shaded and sketched very well. We thought of the scene without looking anywhere for ideas, thus showing the power of the imagination. Social status- The artwork depicts a fairly wealthy part of the city. Dürer was concerned about his social status when he was alive. In this drawing, we drew him standing slightly apart and wearing nice clothes, showing he cares about his image. Beauty- Whoever the woman is in the artwork, Dürer obviously admires her.

  • The Driving Question, part 1

    What would your chosen artist create today in order to display his view of current values? Albrecht Dürer would have the current values of beauty, social status and creativity. He made humans a focus point in his drawing quite often. He would create a woodcut showing beauty by making something beautiful stand out. In our woodcut, the lady was our way of showing an example of beauty.

  • The Driving Question, part 2

    People who care about their social status care about what they wear and what their surroundings look like. We showed this value by having him wear nice clothing and having him stand out from the crowd.
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    Creativity is shown by displaying a good imagination and a unique piece of art. We imagined this scene and brought it to life on the paper.
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    Basically, he would make something detailed, interesting, and good-looking. Artwork of that nature is what we tried to achieve with our drawing.

  • Works Cited, part 1

    Ruhmer, Eberhard. "Albrecht Dürer". Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 May. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist.
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    Deuchler, Florens. “ALBRECHT DÜRER.” <i>The Print Collector's Newsletter</i>, vol. 2, no. 1, 1971, pp. 4–5. <i>JSTOR</i>, https://www.jstor.org/stable/44130079.

  • Works Cited, part 2

    Warneck, Larissa. “Describing Albrecht Dürer's Philosophy and Practice of Drawing and to What Extent His Drawings Reflect the Way Nature Was Perceived at the Time.” Science Comma, 2016, blogs.kent.ac.uk/sciencecomma/tag/albrecht-durer/.