African sculpture

To begin with, my view of art has changed, for I now know that it may not only be a painting or sculpture, but also a building design or a cultural artifact. Objects such as masks, pieces of clothing, and blueprints allow the audience to admire and realize that art has many forms and shapes which represent their heritage and importance in their time. For instance, the outstanding way that Jeff Koons demonstrates the importance of art and its surroundings with his artwork Puppy, located in Spain.…

artwork that was there that caught my eyes. There were countless stunning and alluring artworks at the VMFA that I took pictures of in the collections I visited. I went to the American + European Design Collection (Art Deco and Art Nouveau), the African Art Collection, the East Asian Art Collection, and the South Asian Art Collection. On the downside of the collections that I visited, there were so many art pieces I took pictures that I wanted to write about that were from those collections,…

Today is an exhibition that reflects artwork that demonstrates the progressiveness of artist after moving past the more traditional and classical artwork. This audio guide will have you following along the paintings on the wall, and lastly the sculptures and models in the middle of the gallery. Watch your step and enjoy! Entering the gallery from the left door, looking to your right on the wall you will find Edvard Munch’s” Night in St. Cloud”, which is an autobiographical work from when Munch…

perfected the art styles and began creating plenty of distinct pieces that were as a result of the influence of his art forms (3). Pablo Picasso constantly updated his art style while he was in Paris which included rose period, cubism, realism, African influenced style, and the blue period. This resulted in Picasso becoming a master of the art styles and his work has been used all through the 20th Century. Moreover, adding to the unique art styles he initialized in the art world he also learned…

discusses the African Mask. The earliest use of the African mask was for rituals and ceremonies and the oldest found mask is from 7000 BC. However, Masks were found older but because of the materials that were used from making the mask included leather and wood, they did not survive to be found. (2) The masks were important during the Paleolithic times. (3) The African masks are an important part of African ceremonies, rituals, initiations, celebration and secret communities. (1) African Masks…

Picasso was, without any doubt, one of the greatest, most controversial, and influential visual artist of the 20th century. During the several significant stylistic shifts Picasso went through—most notably the Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubist Period, African Period, and Surrealist Period—Picasso explored the emotionally provocative power of different colors, went beyond the boundaries of artistic conventions by creating entirely new forms of expression, and earnestly employed stylistic…

at the age of 92 in Mougins, France. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. His father was Jose Ruiz Blasco, and his mother was Maria Picasso Y Lopez. His father was an art teacher; his passion was the paintings and art…

Picasso's African influenced Period was during 1907 to 1909 and formal ideas developed during this period lead directly into the Cubist period that follows. During 1909 to 1912 Picasso and Georges Braque developed Cubism. Cubism is one of the most…

is approximately 266.8cm by 203.3 cm (BBC, 2014a; The British Museum, 2017a) and it weighed approximately seven tons (BBC, 2014b). The original statue weighed approximately three times that weigh, it weighed 20 ton (BBC, 2014a), which is about 36 African elephants. Throughout the time, Statue of Ramesses II was imitated more than once; it represented the different views of power seen by the officials and priests (BBC, 2014b). This represented how powerful this emperor was, it was never seen…

There are many factors in everyday life that affects human behavior. Art, for example, has an enormous influence on how people react to day-to-day activities in their life. Architecture also has an important role on the way people act in different atmospheres. Some people may think that architecture is all about the shape of the building, but so much more thought goes into the process of it. When creating the architecture of the building, one must look at the intending use of the property, the…