Sculpture

of this artwork, an understanding of Camille Claudel, her life, her art style, and the time that it was created will be established. La Fortune is a bronze sculpture with black platina which stands at 48cm (roughly 19 inches). The sculpture in its entirety is dark colored, but it has a glossy sheen that brightens up the image. The sculpture…

(Venus Di Milo) Vera Feng AP Art History Thursday, October 2, 2014 Today, the famous Hellenistic sculpture of a goddess half-heartedly holding her garment over her hips sits in the Louvre. Although first thought to be carved by Praxiteles, the beloved Aphrodite of Melos (Venus Di Milo), dated ca. 150-125 BCE, is now understood to have been created by Alexandros of Antioch. This beautiful marble sculpture hails from Melos, Greece. Although a large part of this piece’s fame can be attributed…

Junior College Art Gallery, it is located on the East Campus in Modesto. The title of the artwork presented that day was “Geometries in Cold Welded Steel.” This artwork was presented by the artist Tom Duchscher. Duchscher has been teaching design, sculpture, and ceramics at MJC for the past 40 years. His work has been exhibited throughout northern California and pacific northwest. For the past four decades Duchscher has dealt with the exploration of geometric forms and has focused on the element…

Group by Charles Umlauf Charles Umlauf created The Family Group sculpture in 1960. The location of the sculpture is outside of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Its green color distinguishes the sculpture from the many other sculptures around the university and from the background of the business school. Much of the evidence in the paper will come from the structure and form of the sculpture. The sculpture depicts a woman leaning on her husband showing a…

The Relationship Between the Physical Process of Sculpture and the Development of Its Meaning A sculpture might be defined as the physical manifestation of an idea. Material is the source of the sculpture, matter that the viewer can know through senses other than sight. Technique manipulates the material in order to express a meaning from the work. When a sculptor undergoes this physical process of creation, they are producing a relationship between the meaning of a work and its physicality.…

ink and gouache drawings, allowing Moore to quickly record his ideas in an attempt to better appreciate basic details of a finished sculpture such as the pose, focal point or surface qualities before committing to them in a maquette such as in Plate 2 or perhaps developing those ideas in the maquette into the final product such as plate 4. Plate 4, a finished sculpture located in picturesque garden surroundings, suggests the enduring nature and careful material choice required behind Moore's…

famous sculptures of all time was created in the early 1500s by the famous Italian artist Michelangelo. This statue made out of marble is of a nude male and measures 17ft tall, is a representation of the biblical hero David, known as the “giant slayer” (Goliath). However the expression on the face of the statue is that of a younger David tensed and ready for battle rather than a face of defeat and victory over the giant. Michelangelo was not the original artist to work on this sculpture; in…

This piece is called Warrior with Shield by Henry Moore, from the mid-twentieth century (1953-1954). Looking at this sculpture we see a powerful image of a man who looks like a solider, defending himself. The body is manipulated by the artist in such a way that both fear and strength are portrayed in the sculpture. The man is sitting, holding a circular shield in his right hand towards his chest. His left arm and leg are severed, which could be the reasoning for him not standing while…

which was discovered on the 20th of April in 1863 in the Villa of Livia which is situated in the Prima Porta near Rome. It is a statue that stands 2.03m tall and is now been moved to the Braccio Nuovo which is situated in the Vatican Museums.This sculpture is what seems to be very idealised to show that he is strong and young. The artist has portrayed him to be a God-like figure. This is shown by his Bare feet. Many People during the time when Augustus ruled the roman empire believed that he…

Egyptian and Near Eastern monumental art, but over time they developed their own independent artistic identity. Through many Greek sculptors we are able to examine the abandonment of the rigid and unnatural Egyptian pose, into the more realistic sculpture that portrays how a human body truly stands. Greek sculptors were particularly concerned with proportion, poise, and idealised perfection of the human body. As Greek sculptors practiced throughout the years, they were able to more accurately…