Marble sculpture

This marble free - standing sculpture is a nude male athlete, who seem to lean on a broken part of a tree. This sculpture look like it could had been done by the sculptor that go by the name Polykleitos of Argos because of the Canon focused on the proportion of the body that in the relationship to each other to create the ideal human figure and to allow see symmetria in the Canon. The young man also show contrapposto by one leg bears the weight of the body while the other leg is in a resting…

After reviewing Pablo Picasso’s Bull’s Head sculpture, his ability to assemble the bike seat and handlebars and maintain it’s simplicity yet resemble the image of a Bull’s head is astonishing. I believe that if a much more modern seat and handlebar’s were used, then the apparent perspective of the Bull’s head wouldn’t have been as discernible. “The marvelous thing about bronze is that it can give the most heterogeneous objects such unity that it’s sometimes difficult to identify the elements…

The sculpture produced in ancient Greece is naturalistic compared to artworks and sculptures from previous times and cultures. The form of body is not stylized, nor does the bends in its arms and legs have sharp edges, the body is actually smooth and natural looking. The figure also has normal sized eyes and not enlarged eyes and male breast. The figure is in contrapposto pose like many of the other figures from this ancient Greek period. Although many of the figures in this time that was in…

Lily Cox-Richard is a sculpture, as well as a metal-smither. Lily is very interested in metaphors and analogies. All of her works of art consist of a metaphor. She has used a variety of materials, including plaster, marble, and copper. Lily spent two months living and working in an Austrian quarry to figure out plaster and marble sculptures. Lily’s presentation began with belt buckles. Her inspiration was the truck drivers that she had met on the road. A belt buckle gives a sense of identity…

("Ancient Greek Pottery”). Sculptures in ancient greece went through a big transition there were periods in which the sculptures had more of a animal like face and throughout the years they transitions into a more lifelike feel. The colonial migration had a great impact on greek art. Most of the pottery was made out of stone,bronze,clay and marble . Stone sculptures did not really survive the years and bronze sculptures were melted down and used for other things. Marble sculpture lasted the…

word evolution, the first thing that comes to mind is the abstract theory introduced by Charles Darwin, alike his theory the human form interpreted in art began as an abstract representation, however Greek sculpture embraced a naturalistic human form through the evolution of its art. Greek sculpture evolved through seven different artistic periods: Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic, Early Classical, High Classical, Late Classical, and Hellenistic periods. Detailed progress is demonstrated in New…

The Archaic Period of art in Greek culture lasted from 600-480 BCE. This time period featured statues of both male and female figures, with marble being the primary material used. The most noted statues which display the standard of style, context, and design of the male gender were the New York Kouros, the Calf Bearer, and the Anavysos Kouros. The New York Kouros (600 BCE), was a funerary statue which stood over a grave in Attica. These figurines were also used as offerings in sanctuaries. The…

According to Kamm (2009b), the purpose of sculpture was two-fold. The first purpose was "the worship and reverence of images", not just of the religious deities, but also of deceased family members. In the beginning, this was usually a mask or bust that was placed in the atrium of the home. Eventually, they became must larger in size and began to depict, not just the gods or family, but heroes and emperors (Cartwright, 2013). These sculptures were true-to-life, showing emotion, wrinkles, marks,…

pieces done by different sculptors. Scholars such as Joanna E. Ziegler wrote that “Michelangelo radically redefined the enterprise of making pieta sculptures and, hence, redefined the nature of the “art” itself (Ziegler).” He did so by contrast with the Flemish works: Michelangelo’s core figures are inviolable (due to the change material from wood to marble)…

Andrea del Verrocchio during the prime of his life was a painter, sculptor, and goldsmith. He was named Andrea di Michele Cione born in the early 1430 's to father Michele Cione and mother Gemma. His change of last name is not known, and it can not be placed to any person that took him as an apprentice for his work as painter and sculptor.1 His father was a “fornaciao,” which was attributed to people that worked with kilns, bricks and tiles. Consequently, it is believed that his father may have…