Here, she depicts the modern woman free to pursue three different objectives: fame, art, and knowledge. The mural did not contain a male, which made it a critical dud. In the Fame section, a nude female child leads young girls to join her up in the air and take flight. This could be construed as a diss towards finding love, as the imagery is very reminiscent of girls being in the “flight of love” in Pompeii paintings.…
The statue of Menkaure and a queen, probably Khamerernebty II is a notable statue uncovered by the archaeologists excavating in Menkaure's valley temple. Menkaure was an Egyptian king ruling during the Old Kingdom and is remembered for his famous tomb, the Pyramid of Menkaure. Like the other kings who preceded him, Menkaure had several wives, Khamerernebty II and Rekhter. Like many of the other sculptures that preceded this, the artist used the same canon, having the hands being straight beside the human body and the king standing next to his queen. The canon sculpture and its placid nature of the statue contributes to the idea of the pharaoh representing the king going by the belief that gods possess, or take residence, within the pharaoh’s…
Charles Emile-August Carolus-Duran’s piece titled Portrait of an Artist in her Studio represents the action of a women painting. This piece was made in the late 19th century (c. 1880) and was considered one of Carolus-Duran’s great society portraits. The piece’s present location is the La Salle University Art Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and its original location was *****. This portrait is oil on canvas, and the “quick, loose brushwork” technique can be accredited to masters such as Diego Velasquez and Edouard Manet (placard.) Just as the painting suggests, the painting’s subject is an artist, many say Carolus-Duran’s wife or mistress, in her studio.…
The Peplos Kore and Anita Huffington’s Kore are two established works of art that possess the delicate nature of humanity. The differences between the Peplos Kore and Anita Huffington’s Kore can likely be attributed to the magnitude of elapsed time between their creations; however, their similarities stem from the similar depictions of the female body. The Peplos Kore was sculpted during the Archaic period in 530 BCE., just before the Classical period, whereas Anita Huffington’s Kore is a contemporary work of art crafted in 1991. Despite very dissimilar goals, both artists were able to portray the tranquility of the female body’s physical and emotional elements. Seen as one of the of the most exceptional figures from the Archaic period, The Peplos Kore from Acropolis, Athens comes into the picture.…
One interesting feature of this figurine is that the face of the woman is by no means distinguishable as a human face and no facial features (nose, eyes, etc.) are carved. Rather it seems that the artist purposefully covered the features up with what could be a headdress or some other sort of covering. Despite the lack of facial definition, we can determine that the sculpture is indeed of a woman because of the protruding breasts. Contrary to the facial aspects of the carving, the body parts are heavily defined, which can be interpreted as that for the culture at the time, women’s importance in civilization as bearers of children was highly recognized and of great…
The sculpture is unclothed. This hyper-sexualizes the sculpture and makes it vulnerable to being sexualized by its observers (Lewis 2017:8). The sculpture “displays a prominent pair of labial lips between her coiled haunches” (Larson 2014:508). The sculpture’s genitals are completely exposed and thus perpetuates the sexualization of black women. Because of the sexualization of this sculpture, it was easy for men to stand in front of the sculpture and photograph themselves as holding “up her breasts” (Larson 2014: 511).…
The iconic bust of Nefertiti is part of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin collection and currently on display in the Neues Museum. The Nefertiti Bust is a 3,300-year-old painted stucco-coated limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Martin Fox, an art historian stated, “The bust of Nefertiti is 47 centimetres tall and weighs about 20 kilograms. It is made of a limestone core covered with painted stucco (fine plaster) layers. The face is completely symmetrical and mostly intact, but the left eye no longer exists from ageing.…
The cultural artifact that I propose to study is the bust of the Queen Nefertiti who was an Egyptian queen and the Royal Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. The Queen is known to the modern world for her famed illuminous bust that now resides in Berlin’s museum. Nefertiti’s bust was created by the sculptor Thutmose and was discovered in his workshop by the German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt. The bust is an example of providing us, the Ancient Egyptians examples of art and how they regard facial proportions. The bust is considered the most copied works of art from Ancient Egypt.…
Here she is standing five feet tall, with gentle feminine curls cascading down her narrow face and onto her shoulders; so perfectly symmetric it radiates beauty. The hard marble helps to emphasize the strong noble composure that illuminates in her expression yet the slightly off white color further expresses the contrast between purity and strength. The pursed lips, and slightly lifted chin help to express that her eyes are looking across the room and that she is looking down on the passersby thus depicting her true nature as a goddess overlooking everyone from above. The patrons walking through the museum can catch her stare from across the gallery in a simple glance despite her eyes being so marvelously simple as compared to the rest of the statue.…
This sculpture really reflects the romans because this is a poor, weak, old woman and she is still doing what she has to do to pay her respects. Hellenistic art is all about vivid and theatrical representation with lots of naturalism and realism in its…
Although the statue of Augustus of Primaporta and the statue of Doryphoros bear some minor differences, the similarities between the two statues are remarkable. To the naked untrained eye these two statues might even be mistaken from the same culture. However, the statue of Augustus is from Roman culture and the statue of Doryphoros is from ancient Greek culture. These two works of art seem very similar because Roman art and culture borrowed many ideas from the Greeks and sculpting is just one of them. Augustus of Primaporta was sculpted in the early first century during the Julio-Claudians era in Musei Vaticani, Braccio Nuovo, Rome.…
The Parthenon marbles, also referred to as the Elgin marbles (After Lord Elgin, ambassador to the Ottoman court of the Sultan in Istanbul (1801-1812) include the collection of sculptures, inscriptions and architectural features acquired from the British government by Lord Elgin in 1816 and now exposed in the British museum in Duveen Gallery (Room 18). Under Elgin’s instructions, the marbles were removed from the Acropolis (the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Propylaia, and the Temple of Athena Nike) during his time as ambassador to the Ottoman court of the Sultan in Istanbul (1801-1812). The timeline (see graph 1) demonstrates various stages of the marbles since their creation in the 5th century BC which we consider relevant to the discussion…
A metaphor is a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar. Artists use metaphor as a way to express their artwork in a meaningful manner, through object. An artwork/object has the potential to be anything that the creator decides it to be viewed as. Artists Alberto Giacometti and Andy Goldsworthy use the relationship between the drawing and the development of the three dimensional artwork.…
While the definition of beauty states that it is a combination of qualities that pleases the sight, many people believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This means that each individual has their own views towards beauty, especially in the “ideal” beauty. Although beauty is a concept every being has recognized since their beginning of time (i.e. young children can already acknowledge the beauty in flowers), their views and ideas towards it are mostly influenced by their environment and culture. Throughout history, it can be noted that every culture has their own perspective on how they visualize beauty or what exemplifies beauty. However, it may be hard to determine how ancient cultures view beauty as there are a lack of primary sources.…
Throughout this course I have gained more of an appreciation for artwork and the artists that create them. I have also gained an appreciation for the people that try to define what art is in general or more specifically what makes good art. We have read great thinkers and their philosophies on this, and the fact that even people of such great intelligence can disagree on the subject proves how challenging it can be. By reading the opinions of these great thinkers, and by discussing their thought with our class, I feel I am in a much better place as to define what makes good art myself. I define art as anything created by someone that inspires another to appreciation.…