Sculpture

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is a sculpture created in 1881 by Edgar Degas. The model of the sculpture is Marie Van Goerhem, a daughter of a Belgian Laundress and tailor. Degas uses Marie Van Goerhem to depict an activity that the fourteen-year-old girl participates which is ballet. The sculpture appears to be bronze and tinted with cotton skirt and a white ribbon in the back of her hair. The little girl’s head is tilted upward with her shoulders pulled back. Degas is a French artist who…

Two of the most famous sculptors that chapped our concept for art. The first sculptor is Praxiteles. The second one is Lysippos.There are many sculptures for Praxiteles, one of his famous works is The Aphrodite of Knidos. This magnificent piece of art is often referred to another sculptor Venus Pudica (modest Venus) the name was a reference to the statue covering her genital area. The statute covering her genital area was an attempt to make her more modest, but the gesture only emphasized the…

Sons will be made. A sculpture created in the first century by the artists Hagesandros, Polydoros and Anthenodoros which is currently located in the Vatican. This sculpture is based on Greek mythology, as Laocoön was a priest that warned the Trojans not to bring the wooden horse inside the walls. The Greeks Gods who supported the Greeks saw his actions and punish him by sending serpents to kill him and his sons. This essay will be focusing about the details shown in the sculpture like valance,…

Ellen Jewett is a Canadian artist, who specialises in exotic sculptures. Ellen Jewett’s artwork is focused around one of her favourite things, animals. She also intertwines nature into her sculptures to make a sort of hybrid creature, she builds around these eight themes, natural beauty, curiosity, colonialism, domestication, death, growth, visibility and wilderness. Jewett says “ Plants and animals have always been the surface on which humans have etched the foundations of culture, sustenance…

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley is a British Sculptor. He was born on August 30, 1950. He is known for sculptures in Famous Gallery’s. Antony Gormley was the youngest of seven children born to a German mother and an Irish father. Gormley grew up in a Roman Catholic family living in Hampstead Garden suburb. He attended Ample Forth College a boarding school in Yorkshire, before reading archaeology, anthropology, and the history of art at Trinity College from 1968 to 1971. He travelled to India and…

Antonin Mercie’ was a French sculpture and painter born October 30, 1845-December 13, 1916 in France. Mercie was famously known for his Renaissance era sculpture called Gloria Victis. In 1874 he began his production of the Gloria Victis as student in Paris while attending the École des Beaux-Arts. The Gloria Victis is a sculpture that presents an image of an angel carrying a dead soldier lifeless body to heaven. Mercie’ originally created the sculpture as a tribute of victory for the soldiers…

Sculpture was brought to Rome from Greece. The aristocracy collected pieces of art. When the supply of Greek sculpture dwindled, the Romans started making their own. The Roman sculptures were more expressive than Greek sculptures that rarely displayed expression or emotion. (Kamm, n.d.). Their sculptures were admired even more for reality over flattery. The Romans used sculpture in a variety of fashions. The portrait sculpture was a way to pay homage to the emperors or gods. They were…

surroundings and helped them understand its many aspects.” Indeed, faith was made robust through the cult and adoration of sculptures and painting that represent gods, also this veneration…

Feuerman's resin sculpture Summer was placed in the El Paso Art Museum. This sculpture was part of Feuerman’s “Earth Wind Air fire” retrospective exhibit Feuerman’s hyper-realistic sculpture was purchased for $80,000 dollars to become a permanent part of the El Paso Art Museum collection (City of El Paso, 2010). Feuerman is known to make life-sized sculptures and make them really exquisite. Her sculptures portray a tone of sensuality and calmness within them. Although I have seen this…

Riemenschneider's Assumption Tilman Riemenschneider created the Virgin’s assumption altarpiece meant for a church in Germany. The sculpture is often regarded as one of Riemenschneider’s greatest works. In the altarpiece, he incorporated forms and shapes that made his altarpiece stand out among other sculptures during his time. He utilized gothic forms which were intricate to highlight the features of the altarpiece. These intricate forms are visible in the sculpture’s canopy. In comparison to…