Sculpture

The Elements Paying Tribute to Friendship is a sculpture created by Louis-Simon Boizot in the year 1783. The sculpture is made out of “marble presenting the depth of carving by producing space and sense of physical presence” (Boizot). There are four figurines that symbolize the “elements of clouds, flames, waves, and earth” (Boizot). The four elements are paying tribute to lady named Friendship who is “standing on a platform with her arm wrapped around an elm tree stump wearing a wreath of…

Pietá. The main one that is the most iconic is the St. Peter’s Pietá. This theme of art was very popular during the fifteenth century. Many different artist tackled the theme in different ways, mainly in painting and in sculpture, but Michelangelo’s stands out over the rest. His sculpture is what most people seek out when searching for this theme of art. Pietá is a theme in Christian art that depicts Madonna holding Jesus in her lap and looking at him with lamentation after he has been…

Museum of Art” and interact with different type of paintings and sculptures, but in this paper, I will be talking about the environment of the museum and also about one specific painting that I picked from the “European Paintings 1250-1800” section. To start off the museum was absolutely beautiful starting from the environment that surrounded me to the paintings and sculptures themselves. It had thousands of paintings, some sculptures for the viewers to observe, also it had some interactive…

Knidos This is a sculpture by a Ancient Greek sculptor, Praxiteles of Athens, titled Aphrodite of Knidos. Praxiteles carved out this sculpture around 350 BCE, from the ancient city of Knidos in Asia Minor. The figure was carved out of marble and it was 6 feet and 8 inches tall, bigger than a life size figure. The statue shows a woman that is represented in nude with no hands, and a body that is very timeworn. It is a sculpture that can be seen at many different points. This sculpture is…

Goldsworthy ? Rivers and Tides: Working with Time[/I], winner of the Golden Gate Award, Grand Prize For Best Documentary at the 2003 San Francisco International Film Festival, follows Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy engaging in the creation of ephemeral sculptures from natural, preexisting materials in England, Scotland, Japan, Australia, North America, and even the North Pole. For Goldsworthy, art isn't static, frozen in time, but instead, dictated by changing weather and light patterns, and…

The sculpture Triad of King Mycerinus and Two Goddesses, which resides at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, was excavated from The Temple of Mycerinus in Giza and was created between 2548 - 2530 BCE, during the reign of Mycerinus. Made from greywacke, an incredibly coarse, dark sandstone, this sculpture uses variation in texture, incorrect scale, and line to draw attention to King Mycerinus in relation to the two divinities, and thus is an example of royalty as divinity. Overall, this sculpture…

In figure 3.18(a,b) we examine the Egyptian sculpture of Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty. Upon observing the characteristics of this particular sculpture it is noted first, that the block of stone used for the carving of the statue remains both behind and underneath the figure of Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty. In contrast, in figure 5.24 (a,), the sculpture Warrior from Riace, is sculpted in the round and we are able to observe the human figure from all angles. Additionally, the Egyptian…

ART APPRECIATION 1301 On Wednesday December 30, I went to the Dallas Museum of Art. I entered the museum through an entrance on the South side where the art piece Ave by artist Mark Di Suvero is located. Upon entering the museum, I saw an up going staircase on the right side. On the left side led a long hallway draped over with long blue, yellow, green, and red along with white striped, what appeared to be curtains, hanging from the ceiling. As I proceeded through the hallway to the left I came…

at CCA in 1965. Her work is renowned for its non-classical, unique form and thematic notations regarding “gender, cultural iconography, and art history.” Her piece Pink Lady was sculpted from stoneware, glazed, and painted in 1973. The massive sculpture, which is about 6’4” tall, 4’6” wide, and 3’6” deep, shows a woman, clothed in an ill-fitting yellow bra adorned with blue stars and matching shorts while her feet are adorned…

1- what do you see? A free flowing motion sculpture that is made of bronze. Used by specific texture that truly defined the features of the artwork. 2-what do you think the sculpture would look in different angles? perhaps the viewer would see it as rounded vertical. 3- how has the material been used to define the artwork? “The artist often focuses on the face and hand ,so he can express the emotion behind it”. http://www.markhopkinssculpture.com/Pages/AboutUs.php 4-What do you think…