rite of passage

Examples of rite of passage in the following topics:

• The Rite of Passage

  • The rite of passage, still practiced by some Africans today, is a traditional ceremony in which a person enters into a new phase of life.
  • Rites of passage in African culture have undergone many changes from pre-colonial to contemporary times.
  • The rite of passage is typically a ceremonial event in which a person enters into a new phase of life, such as puberty or marriage.
  • Many cultures used scarification to mark a rite of passage such as puberty.
  • Define a rite of passage, and describe the examples of scarification and circumcision.

• Ceremonies

  • A ceremony typically marks a rite of passage in a human life, marking the significance of birth, initiation, puberty or social adulthood (Bar or Bat Mitzvah), graduation, death, burial (funeral), spiritual events (baptism, communion), and weddings.
  • In religious art, ceremonies are often depicted as events of communal worship, in which believers gather together to celebrate a particular religious process that accompanies major rites of passage.
  • In Ancient Egypt, funereal rites were ritualized in a ceremonial process known as mummification.
  • The Opening of the Mouth ceremony, an ancient Egyptian funereal rite, being performed before a tomb.
  • Give examples of various kinds of ceremonies, including dancing, burial rites, and festivals.

• The Grand Tour and Its Portraits

  • The trip was viewed as an educational rite of passage typically for young men, but sometimes women as well.
  • Their popularity created an industry of sorts, and prices rose with the growth of the trend.
  • The artist Pompeo Batoni, made a career of painting portraits of English tourists posed among Roman antiquities.
  • There are records of over 200 portraits of visiting British patrons standing amidst ruins and great works of art by Batoni.
  • A popular souvenir of the Grand Tour was a portrait of the tourist themselves, often painted amidst the architecture, or famous art works of a particular European location.

• Time

  • Scale and proportion can also be employed to show the passage of time or the illusion of depth and movement.
  • Also, the same figure (or other form) repeated in different places within the same image gives the effect of movement and the passage of time.
  • The photographer Eadweard Muybridge is well-known for his sequential shots of humans and animals walking, running and jumping which he displayed altogether to show the motion of his subjects and the passage of time in sequential imagery .
  • This type of sequential art implies the passage and/or movement of time.
  • The various forms of performance, such as theater, dance and performance art, take place in real-time so the audience feels the passage of time much as they would anywhere else.

• New Britain

  • New Britain, one of the larger islands in Melanesia, is heavily influenced by the Oceanic art of the region.
  • The use of the lor became limited to New Britain, and the Tolai people would often use them in initiation rites and dances or to represent specific spirits.
  • New Britain is the largest island of the Bismark Archipelago of Papau New Guinea.
  • Works of art would commonly be used in the context of spiritual rituals, such as painted wooden masks.
  • Examine the effects of westernization on the art of New Britain.

• Neolithic Monuments

  • Passage tombs or graves consist of narrow passages made of large stones and one or multiple burial chambers covered in earth or stone.
  • Megaliths were commonly used in the construction of passage tombs and typically date to the Neolithic.
  • Knowth is a Neolithic passage grave and monument located in the valley of the River Boyne in Ireland.
  • They lead to a series of semi-circular apses connected by a central passage.
  • The east-west orientation of the passages at Knowth suggests astronomical alignment with the equinoxes.

• Masks in the Kalabari Kingdom

  • Culture and artistic festivities of the Kalabari Kingdom involve the wearing of elaborate outfits and carved masks to celebrate the spirits.
  • In addition, the Ijaw practice a form of divination called Igbadai, in which recently deceased individuals are interrogated on the causes of their death.
  • The Ijaw are also known to practice ritual acculturation, whereby an individual from a different and unrelated group undergoes rites to become Ijaw.
  • Central to the festivities is the role of masquerades, in which men wearing elaborate outfits and carved masks dance to the beat of drums and manifest the influence of the water spirits through the quality and intensity of their dancing.
  • Discuss the role of the spiritual in the masks of the Kalabari Kingdom

• Architecture and Urban Planning under the Ming Dynasty

  • It consists of 980 surviving buildings with 8,886 bays of rooms.
  • The use of yellow, the color of the Emperor.
  • The use of numerology.
  • The layout follows ancient customs laid down in the Classic of Rites (a collection of texts describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the earlier Zhou dynasty).
  • Location of the Forbidden City in the historic center of Beijing

• Process Art

  • Process based art focuses on the creative journey instead of the production of an end product.
  • Inspiring precedents for process art that are fundamentally related include: indigenous rites, shamanic and religious rituals, and also cultural forms such as sandpainting, sun dance, and tea ceremonies.
  • The monks' creation of a Medicine Buddha mandala began February 26, 2001 and concluded March 21, 2001, and the dissolution of the mandala was on June 8, 2001, demonstrating that the process of creating the art was more important than preserving the finished product.
  • Like the live immediacy of performance art, process art is focused on the creative journey instead of a traditional fine art destination.
  • Differentiate the focus of Process Art with that of product-focused artists.

• Codices of the Aztecs

  • The Codex Borbonicus is a codex written by Aztec priests around the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
  • The second section documents the Mesoamerican 52-year cycle, showing in order the dates of the first days of each of these 52 solar years.
  • It tells the story of the legendary Aztec journey from Aztlán to the Valley of Mexico.
  • Because of fear of the Spanish authorities, he maintained the anonymity of his informants and wrote a heavily censored version in Spanish.
  • Primarily a religious document, it depicts the 20 day-names of the tonalpohualli, the 18 monthly feasts, the 52-year cycle, and various deities, indigenous religious rites, costumes, and cosmological beliefs.