Iconography

“Art is defined as the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination. Producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.” (Oxford Dictionary, 2015). Two artists, Leo Sewell and Betsy Youngquist, both show their imagination and innovation through very different art works. Both of these artists are now known worldwide because of their use of everyday junk objects to create their marvellous artworks. The use of everyday items such as old toys or…

source of life, and instrumentality of washing and cleaning. These underlie its place in every culture and faith. According to Eliade, water has more or less the same function in the various cultures of the world In cosmogony, in myth, ritual and iconography, water fills the same function in whatever type of cultural pattern we find it; it precedes all forms and upholds all creation. Immersion in water symbolizes a return to the pre-formal, a total regeneration, a new birth, for immersion means…

played Moses in 2014’s Exodus: Gods and Kings. According to the Daily Beast, one of the most iconic symbols of America uses icons from Moses: the Statue of Liberty. Sculptor Frederic Bartholdi “chose a Roman Goddess as his model” but used Moses iconography of the “rays of sun around her head” and “the tablet in her arms, both of which come from the moment that Moses descends Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments” (Feiler). The Daily Beast also contends that Moses is actually the inspiration…

As you walk the streets of pompeii, there are hundreds of people that surround you screaming, pushing, falling, panicking, all trying to escape the volcanic ash as Mount Vesuvius erupts completely burying the city of pompeii. From every direction as you listen, you can hear the sounds of terror, buildings collapsing, the ground rumbling, and the overturning of all the markets, but through it all, your hand is raised to your ear in search of the one who’s voice you fell in love with, Glaucus. As…

Mosaics had originally been used in the Roman Empire to cover floors and walls of homes. This practice now continued in Christian buildings but with different subjects of depiction: "the old geometrical designs, interweaving patterns, animal figures and scenes from everyday life or mythology were replaced by symbolic representations of religious history..." (Palanque 49-49). An example of the transition from mythology towards biblical figures and scenes can be seen in the mausoleum of Saint…

This painting of a coke bottle is globally recognized because no matter who you were you drink coke, everyone from movie stars to poor people in the streets drink coke. With this one painting Andy Warhol successfully translates globalism and iconography. By presenting his work…

is demonstrated in artistic portrayals of them, in that Nefertiti is often a similar size to Akhenaten and placed in the same plane of viewing. In the “She For Whom All That Is Said Is Done: The Ancient Egyptian Queen” article, Troy states that iconography…

The Unspoken Sexuality in the Art of Ancient Egyptians An air of haunting mystery revolves around the land of ancient Egyptians from their grand pyramids and dressed up mummies to their mysterious writings. However, there is a deeply ingrained sexuality within this ancient world that has not been portrayed as strongly in compared to the importance it partook in the lives of the ancient Egyptians. A profoundly religious people, the ancient Egyptians believed sex played a significant role in not…

Art Review - Brian Jungen Chester Krupa-Carbone 500652158 RTA 322 Lila Pine "I experiment until I can find a way I can manipulate them [the source material] or take advantage of their iconography, without completely changing them. I like the fact that people can still recognize what the source material is." - Brian Jungen Brian Jungen is a canadian artist from British Columbia with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations ancestry. (Wikipedia) He was born in 1970 in British…

Michael Camille, Image on the Edge (Chapter Three: In the Margins of the Cathedral), (Harvard University Press Ann Arbor: University of Michigan University Library, Scholarly Pub. Office 1992), 77-98. In his chapter on “margins” within a Gothic Cathedral, Michael Camille examines architectural features that act as symbols of marginalization and hierarchy. He looks specifically at gargoyles, quatrefoils and misericords that depict both fantastical and monstrous figures and those that include…