Yale University Art Gallery

Art is a term that cannot be defined incorrectly, art can have many definitions but some will be better than others. Art plays an important role in many people lives, it motivates the human brain by making people react with their emotions. It also provides many people with source of creation and self-expression. Art is very subjective and it has a different meaning to many people, but it is also at a continuous state of change. A way that art can be defined is through form and content (Wollheim,…

the weather, but for ancient Greeks, they would have assumed their day was ruined because they had angered the Greek god of the sea, Poseidon. We can see Poseidon's story on the walls of his temple at Cape Sounion in Greece and from looking at Greek art, from pots for oil to elaborate…

Steinhardt. “Chinese Architecture.” New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. The authors’ referred to style of architecture in Asia for many centuries. Chinese Architect has had a great influence on the architecture style of Korean and Japanese. This book is more about Chinese architecture, such as, city, religious’ buildings, tombs, and houses. Kostof, Spiro. “A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals.” New York oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. P. 231-233. Kostof’s…

Tanguy’s most crucial paintings is Plusieurs ont Vécu (Many Have Lived) (see fig. 1). The medium is oil on canvas and it was painted in Paris is 1939, shortly before Tanguy moved to the United States. Today, this painting is located in the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. The subject of this painting is isolation and is one of Tanguy’s most famous post apocalyptic landscapes. The subject of isolation relates to the feelings of exile Tanguy felt before moving to the United States.…

Enheduanna (~2300 BCE): Enheduanna was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad, the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire in Ancient Sumeria, approximately 2300 BCE. She is the largely credited as being the world’s first named author; she wrote numerous poems, psalms, and prayers which lay the foundation for later Hebrew psalms and the Homeric Hymns of Ancient Greece. Enheduanna served as High Priestess to the Akkadian Empire, and was charged with the responsibility to maintain the city’s temple complex…

creative and detailed patterns to portray beautiful life size portraits. After a tragic incident Close still continued with art and produced masterpieces that are shown throughout museums and collected by art collectors. Born into an artistic family, Close found his love for painting at an early age through creative influences from his family and friends. Close found an affinity for art since that was the only class he did not struggle in because of his severe case of both dyslexia and a…

illness and how she used it in and through her art. I will investigate how much she has contributed towards, and what impact she has made on the art world. I would like to collate and analyse the existing literature and sources of information about her, concentrating on the fundamentals of abstract art and minimalism. This will be in order to understand why and how she exposes her inner vulnerability, which comes from her mental disorder, in her field of art, and shares it with the viewer. To…