Iconography

Museum Paper The High Museum of Art is located in Atlanta and is where the artwork of Alex Katz’s exhibition, entitled “This Is Now” is currently being displayed. The exhibition will be at the museum from June 21-September 6 and has several of Katz’s best paintings that he has done throughout his career. The painting style used by Katz is figurative and flat using imagery to create vivid works of art. Katz’s is known for his flat landscape paintings that are on display in the exhibition, “Katz's…

The Arts in Public Places Program by the National Endowment for the Arts had required that public buildings, dedicate a percentage of public space for art. Exposing the general public to ‘advanced’ art. Public art, however, is primarily used as aesthetic choices more so than educational purposes. Mentors by Aris Demetrios is a piece of public sculpture located in the center of SBCC’s West Campus. The piece was originally a fountain, only due to the recent drought the water has been shut off.…

tall, the Nature Goddess commands a presence of a monumental entity in comparison to the viewer and her surrounding objects. Originally found in Mathura, India, the Nature Goddess evolves out of “water cosmology,” which is a term “encompassing the iconography and ritual practices of local based Indic cults, centered on the worship of natural forces” (Patel). Representations of nature were often anthropomorphized. Water was considered the ultimate life giving force to these local cults, while the…

Iconography The Amida Buddha is identified as Buddha rather than an anonymous man because of religious details and icons. The position he is sitting in and the way his hands are folded represents the traditional position of meditation. His position identifies him as a holy and religious man. More key details that identify the image as Buddha include the top knot on his head that symbolizes enlightenment. Along with his long ear lobes, which entail a wealthy person who wore expensive earrings…

Time has altered the way people think, behave and interact. Satire films is an effective representation of those transformations. Satire falls under the major genre category of film, comedy, a ‘professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh’.() The reason is that satire often use comedy to portray then discredit whether a person or a social idea. Parody at the same time has many similarities compared to satire that they both incorporate…

civilization through its display of sociopolitical complexity. However, there remains quite a considerable amount of debate regarding how the Olmec iconography, specifically in regards to Olmec style ceramics, disseminated and interacted with neighbouring regions. Blomster et al. (2005) and Backes et al. (2012) propose that the standardized Olmec iconography on such pottery was exported throughout Mesoamerica and spread the Olmec institutions and culture. Furthermore, they suggest that this…

Tapestries are a source of continual fascination to contemporary audiences. Something about these gothic textiles is evocative of a magic of bygone eras. One of the most romantic and most iconic examples of this is The Unicorn in Captivity. The enormous hanging is over 8”x12” and is stunningly detailed throughout. The woven, not embroidered, scene illustrates fantastical beasts and animals whose nature has frustrated historians for generations. Some argue that the work is a product of the…

happening between the Hellenistic world and various other ancient cultures. According to Canepa, Greek visual culture “served as prestigious means of display and communication within and beyond the lands of Alexander’s former empire” (83). The iconography of the bronze sculptures remained inherently Hellenistic, yet their form often reflected the local style of the artists that created them. The bronze sculptures found in the Greco-Bactrian colonies of Alexander the Great amalgamated…

Iconography throughout the Coming-of-Age subgenre plays a major role in how the films plot plays out. Three key elements of the genre’s iconography are music, emotional pull and being visually realistic. In terms of music, the coming-of-age subgenre includes dramatic emphasized music that makes moments specifically climatic. For example, in the final dramatic scene of The Spectacular Now, when Sutter finally realizes who he has become as a mature adult, he explains that he is just trying to live…

Robert T. Tally Jr analyses the sense of homelessness in Slaughterhouse-Five in his book A postmodern Iconography, Vonnegut and great American Novel Much of the bewilderment encountered by characters in the novels has to do with their sense of being lost, of not knowing where to go. To be sure, that homelessness existed before; it can be seen in Don Quixote…