Terracotta

History of the Benin shrines and altars go back to the thirteenth century located in the Africa’s beautiful tropical forest region of South – Central, Nigeria Edo Estate. The Benin kingdom consist of not only the Edo people, they also include the peoples of Igbo, Ijaw, Yoruba, and Itsekiri that live along the Edo state boarders. The Benin kingdom is one of the many places in Africa known for its sophisticated and beautiful art made of ivory, brass, and wood. “The Edo artist consist of brass…

The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens’ Archipenko: A Modern Legacy, on view from January 28 to April 17, 2016 in Jacksonville, Fl, was organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C., in collaboration with the Archipenko Foundation. Featuring approximately 50 sculptures, mixed media reliefs and works on paper, Archipenko: A Modern Legacy offers a comprehensive assessment of Alexander Archipenko's artistic career. Organized chronologically to walk the viewer through the artistic…

In the story, Clients by Kathy Page, the character of Martin is the embodiment Capitalism. Like a sort of bourgeoisie business man he attempts to exploit the couple, and profit from their lack of ability to communicate with each other. This mirrors the dominant capitalist classes attempts to suppress the subordinate working class, in order to continue to gain excess wealth while to working class falters. The couple voices their concerns of lacking enough time for leisure while being bound to…

According to Kleiner’s analysis of African art before the 1800s, caves such as the Apollo 11 come from Africa and are assumed to be some of the oldest paintings currently discovered, showing the diversity of the continent itself. The works are difficult to date and decipher meaning, although some of the best work comes from the Benin Kingdom. Assumed to be established in the 13th century, most of its power rose along the 16th century. The kingship was considered sacred and presented artworks…

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What if that picture was worth more than words could ever speak? What if it could define what we call reality and reshape our perception of the representation of what we define as “normal”? Belgian artist René Magritte captures the idea of reality and distorts the representation of everyday objects through his work, Les Valeurs Personnelles, or Personal Values, painted in 1952. This work not only highlights the values of the time period it was…

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…

The Etruscans were a widespread people who resided in ancient Italy, primarily in both the central and northern regions of the Italian Peninsula. These peoples “formed the most powerful nation in pre-Roman Italy” and “created the first great civilization on the peninsula, whose influence on the Romans as well as on present-day culture is increasingly recognized” (Grummond, 2015). The heart of their civilization was in Etruria, an area that covered part of modern Tuscany, Western Umbria, and…

Dyana Postelle Many times the best way to understand civilizations is in reference to another civilization or civilizations in the same time period, or by comparing advancements in language, size, and trade, or by comparing city-state and territorial-state perameters. In this essay I will discuss the Indus Valley Civilizations, and more specifically Mohenjo-daro with regards to its similarities and differences to Mesopotamian, and Egyptian civilizations, and its status as a city-sate or…

Key Ideas and Details Questions 1.When she was 18, Alice Sebold was raped by a stranger. Though this was not her reason for writing The Lovely Bones, her experiences did contribute to Susie Salmon’s character. “Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.” (Sebold 186). Through Susie…

Martin was the only one given a detailed characterization, it gives us a perception of his place in society, as part of the upper class. The narrator describes Martin’s appearance when he arrives with a “a pale linen suit and faded terracotta shirt … gleam of his rich brown skin” (103), and also his physical attributes “a tall man, he moves in a loose, underwater way” (103). From the physical description of Martin, his “rich brown skin” and his attire “pale linen suit” gives us the notion…