Sculpture

basic form, they are differentiated by colour and pattern. In Spanish, sombra means “shadow,” placing it in direct contrast with Sunrise. Despite their direct relationship, these pieces are not placed adjacent to one another. In separating these sculptures, the viewer is encouraged to move throughout the space. Movement is emphasized in Todd’s pieces through the use of line and gradients of colour. The sphere is used throughout the collection, appearing in one of the exhibit’s earliest works,…

The kiss artwork is a sculpture made with marble and the Christina’s World artwork is a painting made with tempera. Both artworks has a meaningful story behind that you would never think of. For example, in the painting Christina’s World somebody would think that Christina is just sitting on the grass catching the breeze through her hair and enjoying the day instead of her having an disorder that makes her not able to walk. For the sculpture The Kiss you would think that Auguste just saw two…

At first glance the figure is definitely out of the ordinary, the foot and a half tall sculpture is larger than doll sized and much too large to fit in a child's hand. The measurements for the figure are 5.6 inches in lengh, 4 inches in width, and 15.3 inches in height. The sculpture is split into four parts the three base parts feet, torso, and head, each around 2-3 inches each. The last part is the head decorations probably added on after the base was carved out. judging by the size of the…

In this essay, I would like to compare and contrast two sculptures: Statue of Memi and Sabu from Egypt and Seated Statue of Gudea from Mesopotamia. The pair Statue of Memi and Sabu had been made ca. 2575–2465 B.C., and assumably represents husband and wife. This kind of statue was often found hidden in nonroyal tomb chapels of the Old Kingdom (n.a.). The statue is made of limestone, which is a rather soft material, that allows better manual processing but is less resistant to damage. The…

them. The two works I am going to compare are Venus of Willendorf crafted sometime between 28,000-25,000 BCE. and Josef Schusser’s May Evening painted in 1897. Venus of Willendorf is of an ancient sculpture dipicting a woman figure. Shapewise, the art piece is not natural in the approach…

piece is a yarn wrapped ceramic and is a fairly large size. The sculpture itself is of a cartoonish dog, and the yarn wrapped around the ceramic base is of many different colors and in many different organic patterns and directions. The main function is most likely to be visually interesting and entertaining to look at, as it doesn’t really have a specific use. The piece is freestanding and is supported by its own base. This sculpture…

Tara Donavan is a New York based artist, best known for her unique way of using ordinary and plain items as the underlying concept for her sculptures. She was born in 1969, in Flushing, Queens. Donavan grew up in Blauvelt, a small town in New York, about 30 miles outside of New York City. She attended the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1987-88, but it wasn 't until 1991 when she received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC. Eight years later, Donavan went…

According to met museum, “the Cyclades, is a group of islands in the southwestern Aegean, comprises some thirty small islands and numerous islets” (www.metmuseum.org). It is also stated, “early Cycladic sculpture comprises predominantly female figures that range from simple modification of the stone to developed representations of the human form, some with natural proportions and some more idealized” (www.metmuseum.org). On a trip to Mexico, I was fortunate…

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…

There is an art work that I want to have a critical analysis is Giant No. 3. The author of this art work is Zhang Huan. This work of art is a colossal figurative sculpture which created in 2008. Giant No. 3 is made of steel, cowskin, wood and polystyrene foam. The color is almost brown and somewhere shows white. This sculpture is so large which the size is 4.6 meters times 10 meters times 4.2 meters. This artwork is “depicts a fifteen-foot pregnant beggar with a child clinging to one…