Wax sculpture

Daedalus is a famous sculptor . His sculptures were so life like it was as if they would come to life . He was also a renowned architect . Daedalus has a nephew named talus he was a lot smarter than Daedalus .Talus was an inventor . He created the saw while walking on the beach one day , and the compass by just putting a stick in the ground. Daedalus got jealous . He got so jealous that one day he pushed talus off a cliff and he fell to his death . Daedals got so depressed because had done…

The Igbo people started to cast metal in the ninth century, before many other parts of Nigeria. They are the first African tribe to use the lost-wax casting technique. The lost-wax technique involves making and object out of wax, surrounding the wax with clay to make a mold, firing the clay, and melting out the wax, then having a mold to cast the bronze in. The Igbos were the first people to work with copper in West Africa, the Igbos did not know about raising, soldering, riveting…

The sculpture also displays a veristic approach, which means that the woman depicted seems very naturalistic. Through the imperfections of her face, she displayed a less carved statue that emphasized the veristic approach. For instance, she didn’t have many defining…

African societies flourished despite having no contact with Europe. They achieved things such as trade by sea, a sufficient judicial system, in many places high levels of education, and forms of art. Africa's abundance in certain resources such as gold and salt made it a key area for trade, allowing the empires to become rich and powerful. Despite being isolated from European countries, the African Empires and civilizations did not suffer from it. They adapted on their own, created their own…

Question 1: The sculpture of Menkaure and a Queen was built around 2490-2472 BCE. The original sculpture of Augustus of Primaporta is believed to have been built around 20 BCE. These pieces of art were created in different periods and places. Throughout time there has been a similarity between civilizations everywhere. This is the want and need for leadership. In each community there has been a leader of some sort. While some of the leaders have similarities there are unique qualities that each…

The cultural artifact that I propose to study is the bust of the Queen Nefertiti who was an Egyptian queen and the Royal Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. The Queen is known to the modern world for her famed illuminous bust that now resides in Berlin’s museum. Nefertiti’s bust was created by the sculptor Thutmose and was discovered in his workshop by the German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt. The bust is an example of providing us, the Ancient Egyptians examples of art and how they regard facial…

a three-dimensional form to his two-dimensional drawings and paintings. It is easy to see that Michelangelo is more naturally a sculptor than anything else because his pictures, as well as his paintings, are somewhat exaggerated as if they are sculptures themselves only two-dimensional. His subjects in his art defined with their chiseled features with one colored chalk with the creamy tone of the page with some white added for the highlights of the flesh. During his early career as an artist,…

Florence. Donatello used this type of carving to create a atmospheric effect and to give the impression of greater depth. To create this depth he relied on the contrast of low and high relief. One other very famous piece of work by Donatello is his sculpture entitled Zuccone. It was originally commissioned for the Bell Tower of the Florence Cathedral of Florence, Italy. It was completed between 1423 and 1425. It just so happens to also be called the Statue of the Prophet Habakkuk since many…

to the sculpture. The bust is 1’8” in height and 44 lbs. in weight. The face is perfectly symmetrical and nearly well-reserved. The overall soft contour lines and structure lines portray her feminine beauty. She has an…

every night as I drifted to sleep. My parents had me young. My father was an artist and my mother worked for a non-for-profit. We didn't have much, but we had our culture, and we had our wits, and that was all we needed. I sit with him in the sculpture garden, gloved hand clutching a Starbucks hot chocolate that has long gone cold, but I stubbornly refuse to dispose of. He looks at me with a twinkle in his beryl green…