Stone sculpture

frequently used in funerary sculptures. This pose was “alluding to the ability of the deceased to come and go between this world and the netherworld”. The striding pose can also be a reference expressing a potential action, such as the “the deceased king or private person coming forth to receive offerings”. Both explanations by Wilkinson could very well be the reason the sculptor chose this pose for a statue in the Valley Temple of Menkaura. The Greywacke used in carving the sculpture is of…

My visit to the Tampa Museum of Art took place on the 4th of February 2017. The Tampa Museum of Art is located at the heart of downtown Tampa and is home to some of the most widely acclaimed creative works of art in the United States. I had never been to a museum prior to my visit. My visit to the Tampa museum was very informative and a rare occasion to learn about the beauty of art. I was pretty anxious from the beginning because I didn’t know where to start, but after speaking with a security…

follows up on this assertion by confessing that, in his old age, he has acquiesced to the idea that painting and sculpture are, in fact, ‘one and the same’ in that they both ‘proceed from one and the same faculty of understanding’, it is made equally evident – through both his lexical choices and his manifest scorn at the notion that one might consider painting a ‘nobler’ art form than ‘sculpture’ – that the renowned artist still harbours a preference for sculptural art. This,…

that we saw life sized stone carvings of people starting to emerge. This was likely inspired by the works of the ancient Egyptians. The Greeks started with rigid and lifeless looking statues. For whatever reason their culture seemed to push towards more realistic sculptures, and so the Greeks started to study the human body. They did so in a way that had never been done before. Maticulessly studing every detail of every part of the body. With each generation working on…

between the two statues. Royal Acquaintances was painted a light color, while Gudea was left in its dark stone…

hammers and chisels instead of a computer. We have no idea of what the people actually looked like whose likeness was used to create the famous statues of the past. Body imagery has also changed from indirect depictions such as paintings and sculpture to true depictions with pictures and video. And while the naked body was once accepted, praised and put on display in Greek and Roman society, it is considered a taboo to show real life photos of naked people in public. You don’t see naked men…

A stele is a carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events. In the Akkadian stele it shows that the people are looking up to someone possibly a king and there are people at his feet and appear to be begging for their lives and the man standing proudly…

To start lets talk about the Donatello’s David, as Donatello’s landmark work one of the best sculptural works of the early Renaissance was his bronze statue of David in the 1440s Florence. This work indicates the return of the naked sculpture in the round figure, and as a result it was the first such work like this in over a thousand years, it is one of the most considerable works from the past of western art. The work was accredit by the de’Medici family, but we not sure when during the…

During the 2000BC – 1000BC period (BBC, 2014a), also known as the 19th Dynasty (The British Museum, 2017a) in Egypt, Statue of Ramesses II was made, it is a stone monumental statue of the head and upper body of the ruler Ramesses with only the head and the upper body. It was found in Africa, specifically in Thebes, Egypt (BBC, 2014a), also known as Upper Egypt or Ramesseum (The British Museum, 2017a) in the past. The statue was made with different colors, which are the two shades of brown (light…

Bruce Nauman is a fascinating artist. His career spans over 50 years and he has worked in a variety of different styles and mediums. He creates works that aren’t necessarily aesthetically appealing in the traditional sense, but they are still works of art because of his intention and message behind it. Many of his works, incluidinf the ones that will be mentioned later, feature strange forms, odd angles, and lack color. He does not create work to please the eye. He creates work to get people to…