Ancient Greek sculpture

Metropolitan has a vast collection and some of the most unique artifacts I can ever remember seeing at a museum. From the Greek and Roman art, to the sarcophaguses from Roman and Egyptian lands, it even has a reconstructed pyramid, and I didn't even get to experience more than half of the artifacts. One enormous piece that caught my attention, centered in the middle of the Greek and Roman art on the main floor was a marble sarcophagus lid. This masterful piece had a man and a woman (presumably…

realm. Rosalind Krauss notes that sculptors working in the minimalist idiom did so as they “had no faith in the ideals classical sculpture as founded on, and the only means by which they could explore the medium’s possibilities were to introduce the situational elements of placement and temporal duration” . Such a readjustment of perspective enables minimalist sculpture such as Cloud Gate to derive meaning from different sources. Instead of “emanating from the work itself, meaning now had an…

show on screen. After viewing The Power of the Costume, I went to view the art galleries and was greeted by many different pieces of art work from all around the world. Although many of the pieces on display were of paintings, there were also some sculptures, artifacts, photography or one of my personal favorites: Bean Garden by Alison Knowles, a large wooden box that is filled with beans. Visitors are encouraged to take off their shoes and walk in this piece of artwork, because of this display…

The artist I have selected is Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. The greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, as well as the co-creator of Cubism. “Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to—and paralleled the entire development of—modern art in the 20th century.” The personal life Pablo Picasso was in his father’s footsteps…

created the sculpture with reclaimed objects-- a person who can read between the lines. We always feel that Millard-Mendez is very clever for the way he created his art pieces. For example, Millard-Mendez created different types of boats but each boats had their own story behind the way they were created. We feel that every art piece that Rob Millard-Mendez created had either and story or an important message behind it. We feel that was the common denominator for each piece, no sculpture was…

overall, an artist. During the time, many artists made silhouette line drawings on paper, but Calder was the original artist to use wire to fashion three-D line "sketches" of people, animals, and objects. He then moved from metaphorical linear sculptures in wire to random forms in motion by creating the first mobiles. Composed of whirling sizes of wire offset with thin metallic plates, the presence of the whole part was abstractly organized and reshuffled in place by chance merely by the air…

Pablo Picasso’s artistic career can be categorized into several, distinct periods. The general sentiments of these eras range from melancholy to romantic depending on the events ongoing in Picasso’s life at that time. In 1900, Picasso had just initiated his profession as an artist and was impecunious. His distressful lifestyle in the early 1900’s was conveyed through his first period, the Blue Period. Many Blue Period art pieces, such as “The Old Guitarist” and “The Sleeping Drinker”, are…

Botanical Gardens. Plenty of changes were made to this structure and so it resembled a glass chapel, with a minimalist style that cooperated with the white arches of the Pacific Science Center, which stood nearby. This 43-foot-high ceiling allowed the sculpture to be hung and even dropped down to 12 feet from the floor. The reason why Chihuly wanted this structure closer to the audience was so that it enabled them to fully see the glass up close and become a part of it. Furthermore, the…

cm or H. 20 and 5/8 inches. It is classified as a sculpture and is made out of Japanese Cyprus and has traces of colour around it. The culture from which this sculpture is made is the Japanese culture. It was created in the 10th century between ca 900 and 1185, this period of time is referred to as the Heian period. The Heian period was the final division of the classical Japanese history. The name Heian was a…

The Aphrodite is an intergalactic Space ship, equipped with some of the most advanced technology money can buy. Since it is a peace vessel the Aphrodite’s only weapons are a handful of anti-asteroid lasers. Though it may not be armed to the teeth the Aphrodite plays host to many very important individuals and to keep its passengers safe it is equipped with the most advanced hyper drive in the galaxy as well as a state of the art shield generator that is capable of withstanding the wrath of even…