Wax sculpture

many people around the world. In this era, many people had a reason to paint and had a lot of emotion and feeling behind their paintings. Specifically, Gianlorenzo Bernini, he had an imaginative spirit always added character to his paintings and sculptures. Mr. Bernini was a very well-known artist and you could say he was a “fan favorite” in Rome. Though his fate would change once Pope Innocent X came into the picture. The previous Pope, Pope Urban VIII had almost spent the entire treasury…

centuries, are some of the most significant icons from the Hindu religion. This important symbol bears all of the characteristics that Shiva represents: creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe. This religious piece of art, made using the ‘lost-wax’ method of sculpting, has gotten a lot more prominent since the twentieth century. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy wrote an essay in 1912 explaining the significance of the Shiva Nataraja, and why it was an important statue to the Hindu religion,…

The male gaze is the way in which visual arts depicts women for a masculine point of view. Mulvey suggests that visual media exposes a deep-seated drive known as “scopophilia”: the sexual pleasure involved in looking. Mulvey believed mainstream movies are filmed in a certain way in order to satisfy male scopophilia. Therefore, according to this theory woman are regulated to the status of objects to be admired for physical appearance. Mulvey argues that erotic scenes in films don’t have any…

How do we avoid the uncanny becoming just another clichéd trope on the methodological menu? How might we revise ideas concerning the uncanny and explore what it means to us as Fine Art practitioners, keeping in mind ontological ambiguity? Freud described the uncanny as the class of frightening things that leads us back to what is known and familiar (Freud, 1919). Previously Jentsch concluded that the uncanny was a fear of the familiar based on intellectual uncertainty (Jentsch, 1906). The…

colonialism. The works are vibrant and incorporate bold patterned Dutch wax-printed fabrics that Shonibare is known for. The bright colors and often comical tones to explore and critique much darker themes and historical events. Upon first encountering the exhibition, I found it interesting that Shonibare utilized such a wide variety of mediums, especially considering how small the exhibition is. The use of multiple mediums, from sculptures to photographs to costumes, illustrate the artist’s…

opinionated artist many have come to loved today (Ai Weiwei). Within chapters 9 & 10 the common factor of both chapters were government officials, kings and queens of parliaments, rulers of nations, and revolutionary war heroes. Paintings, pictures, sculptures, and other forms of art depictions addresses the sustainability around a political and social activist theme discussed both in the books chapters and DVD. The social confinement implemented by corrupt government, parliament, and…

Have you even visited a museum of art such as Whitney Museum of American Art or Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) that displays work of arts such as paintings, photographs or sculptures from all around the world and from different artists? I personally visited the MoMA and as I was looking around I saw lots of paintings and sculptures, but the one caught my attention was the three-dimensional painting by the artist named Max Ernst called Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale dated ca. 1924,…

Square in 1989. Ah Xian sold his first bust to the Powerhouse Museum, and in the year 2000, he held his first solo show in Melbourne. In 2001, he won the National Gallery of Australia's inaugural National Sculpture Prize with his "Human Human : Lotus Cloisonne Figure”. He continues to make sculptures to this day. Ah Xian is highly skilled in the art of ceramics and sculpting, using a variety of different materials, including concrete, cloisonné, resin-fibreglass, jade, Ox-bone inlay, porcelain,…

the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century, the Italian Renaissance transformed art and brought about countless masterpieces in Italy. It can be seen in writings, sculptures, paintings, architecture, so on the new ideas that were transforming art. From artists such as Fra Angelico to sculptures like Donatello, this movement not only gave us beautiful pieces to admire today, but also rebirthed the entire art movement at this time. If we start with the architecture at this…

created out of everyday items, found items. Sculptures emphasized “found objects” into their pieces. A major factor that helped with the production of art was the use of the machine and industrialization. This was the artist’s best…