Brooks Museum Of Art Analysis
Maria Popova said this about art. “This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, and more wholeheartedness.” Over the course, I look art differently and actually in enjoy it. I went to the Brooks Museum of Art to get a better feel for art.
The Brooks’ collection of African Art includes wood carving, metal, textiles, bead-work, paintings, and books. These holdings largely reflect the generous gift of Henry Easterwood, a local collector. The collection features objects from many sub-Saharan cultures, with especially strong holdings in masks and sculptures from the west and central Africa. Among the things to see are a beaded Bamileke Kuosi society elephant mask from Cameroon and an Ethiopian diptych of the Crucifixion and the Virgin Enthroned …show more content…
Myers, in 1948 by British artist Sir Jacob Epstein and the Compress Worker, by the American Leon Koury. Both nice looking sculptures by different. The Head of Isaac I. Myers was made from bronze. The exquisiteness and robustness of bronze contaminants have made them one the most popular ingredients for cast metallic sculptures throughout the past. It's confrontation to splintering allows artists to sculpt extended its forms in simulated “strokes,” and due to natural or chemically-induced discolorations, bronze can take on innumerable gorgeous, down-to-earth shades of the artist’s choice. The Compress Worker, a medium is a bronze piece which is strong like he is. For me, I like the compress worker because he reminds me of a boxer the way he looks. He reminded me of one but that’s not what compressor work was. His job was to grab bells of cotton. On the sculpture, you see long pants and heavy gloves for the hard labor he has to endure. The bronze sculpture is standing tall over
The Brooks’ collection of African Art includes wood carving, metal, textiles, bead-work, paintings, and books. These holdings largely reflect the generous gift of Henry Easterwood, a local collector. The collection features objects from many sub-Saharan cultures, with especially strong holdings in masks and sculptures from the west and central Africa. Among the things to see are a beaded Bamileke Kuosi society elephant mask from Cameroon and an Ethiopian diptych of the Crucifixion and the Virgin Enthroned …show more content…
Myers, in 1948 by British artist Sir Jacob Epstein and the Compress Worker, by the American Leon Koury. Both nice looking sculptures by different. The Head of Isaac I. Myers was made from bronze. The exquisiteness and robustness of bronze contaminants have made them one the most popular ingredients for cast metallic sculptures throughout the past. It's confrontation to splintering allows artists to sculpt extended its forms in simulated “strokes,” and due to natural or chemically-induced discolorations, bronze can take on innumerable gorgeous, down-to-earth shades of the artist’s choice. The Compress Worker, a medium is a bronze piece which is strong like he is. For me, I like the compress worker because he reminds me of a boxer the way he looks. He reminded me of one but that’s not what compressor work was. His job was to grab bells of cotton. On the sculpture, you see long pants and heavy gloves for the hard labor he has to endure. The bronze sculpture is standing tall over