Wax sculpture

Gudea, from the Neo-Sumerian Period. This 41 cm high sculpture is made out of Diorite and dates back to 2090 B.C Mesopotamia. The second sculpture is The Royal Acquaintances Memi and Sabu, from the Old Kingdom period. This 62 cm high sculpture dates back to 2575–2465 B.C. It was found in the western cemetery in Memphite in Egypt and is made out of limestone and paint. The two sculptures were made in very different historical settings. The sculpture of Gudea was commissioned by Gudea himself.…

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…

The name of the sculpture is Woman in a Tub. The sculpture is literally a naked woman in the tub, but there is more than just that. The woman had only one fourth of her head. Only her chin and mouth is showing, with her long hair on her shoulders. Her mouth was wide opened, and her hands…

Throughout the semester, when observing multiple forms of art; while all struck me to be beautiful, the one individual piece of work that I saw truly inspiring was the Bronze Head of Ife, which dated back to 600 A.D. This work inspired me because of how the art was way ahead of the time period in which it was created. The procedure to craft these bronze heads was complex in the way of casting the metal, and furthermore, it required large amounts of manual labor. This form of artwork was…

Title & Subject Matter: Look, See, Create: Sculpture Garden This project titled “Look, See, Create: Sculpture Garden” consists of an activity book with various activities that young visitors can complete while visiting the sculpture garden at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. This project was completed in conjunction with the museum’s current program of activity books that highlight the permanent collection. Branding standards are consistent with the museum’s current look (bocamuseum.org). The…

Since the first revelation of a piece that was considered as an “artwork”, many styles have been developed throughout the centuries. Artworks have been engendered by different artists in sundry styles, time periods and places. When artists or theorists invents an incipient set of conceptions of an unknown style, it can now be utilized by anyone, sundry times. Once an artist engendered an artwork utilizing a concrete style, another artist can re-visit it as the reference to engender a different…

Do Ho Suh “I want to carry my house with me all the time. Like a snail.” (Suh) That’s the kind of whimsical thoughts behind Do-Ho Suh’s art. Suh was raised in Korea and came to America in an attempt to pursue his art career and make a name for himself apart from his father, who was already a successful artist. Upon his arrival in New York though, he found himself missing his home and family. Suh later said, “The experience of leaving home is what made me think and become aware for the…

one of the oldest place in Africa that has changed the impact of sculpture art. The cities that were part of the Nok society was the reason of that artistic impact. Significant cities that were part of the Nok culture like Abuja and Yoruba. Abuja is the capital of Nigeria and was the center of ancient Nok. Another city that had a major part of Nok was Yoruba. Today some people of Yoruba still perform or wear…

Artistic works have gone through extensive changes and transitions throughout time. Each time period develops a style that sometimes is carried on or merely tweaked in the next time period, and others times is snuffed out completely. By studying specific pieces from successive time periods, one can develop a sense for these changes of style as well as the reasoning behind them. Pieces from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Greek, and Roman periods are great examples of this. The Hall of Bulls is…

Amitabha Budda (Amida), the Buddha of Infinite Light, Kamakura period, Japan, 13th century, is a work of art made in a gilt bronze medium (Sayre, 33). The gilt bronze used in making the sculpture of Amida accentuates the iconographic role that the way a Buddha positions his/her hands plays. The creator of Amida’s sculpture has succeeded in showing the mythical qualities surrounding the wisdom Buddhas. Amida’s standing posture exemplifies the role that he played in providing a lifeline to anyone…