The two sculptures I chose were The Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet and Monumental Figure. The Sakhmet statue is from the New Kingdom era, 18th Dynasty. Dated all the way back to ca. 1390-1352 B.C. in Egypt. It is made out of granodiorite. There are two identical at the museum in New York. The Monumental Figure is from the 9th century. It was found in Mexico, it is from the Mayan culture. The statue is classified as a stone-sculpture. You can find the Monumental figure in gallery 358 and the Goddess Sakhmet you can find in gallery 135 at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.…
In my artwork, I created a batik landscape of Ireland, with the house on the cliff supposed to be a house similar to one on my way to church. When creating this piece, I used a piece of silk, and then dyed it with various colors, ranging from brown to green. I believe this shows the theme, as I have been to Ireland, and I have multiple connections to it, as many ancestors of mine were Irish. Also, the house in the artwork was one that I see every time I go to church. I felt the house had an older and more traditional look to it, as it was covered with dead plants, and slightly broken in. I combined both memories, and created this piece. I believe this item connects with the artist Faith Ringold, as we both used mixed media to represent something…
Works not by “Christian” artists, but evocative of Christian beliefs, should be viewed in full context. The title of “Christian art”…
ART 1/PREHISTORIC THROUGH GOTHIC ART Chapter 1: The Birth of Art 1-5 Nude Woman (The Venus of Willendorf), 28,000-25,000 B.C. 1-6 Woman Holding a Bison Horn, from Laussel 25,000-20,000 B.C. 1-7 Two Bison, 15,000-10,000 B.C. 1-9 Bison, detail of cave at Altamira, 12,000-1,000 B.C. 1-10 Spotted Horses and Negative Hand Prints, cave at Pech-Merle, 22,000 B.C. 1-11 Hall of Bulls, Left wall, 15,000-13,000 B.C. 1-14 Stone Tower, Jericho, 8,000-7,000 B.C. 1-15 Human Figure from Ain Ghazal, Jordan, ca. 6750-6250 1-16 Catal Huyuk, ca.6,000 B.C. 1-18 Landscape, Catal Huyuk, ca.6150 B.C. 1-20 Stonehenge, ca. 2250-1600 B.C. Chapter 2: The Art of Ancient Near East 2-1 Hammurabi and Shamash, detail Stele of Hammurabi, Susa, Iran, ca. 1780 B.C. 2-2…
I chose these two drawings of Leonardo da Vinci the Head of Leda and The Vitruvian Man (http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/) Michelangelo’s Andrea Quaratesi and The Libyan Sybil (http://www.metmuseum.org) .…
The figures in this painting are portrayed as perfect, it is seen in Jesus body as it looks realistic because of how his body is formed and how his clothing sits.…
You could look at a style of art such as graffiti or performance art and see when and where it began…
The specific sculpture I chose was the Venus of Willendorf. It was found in 1908 by a man named Johann Veran during an excavation at a Paleolithic site near Willendorf, a city in Austria. It is estimated that it was made between 24,000 and 22,000 BCE. The Venus of Willendorf is 11.1-centimetre high and carved out of oolithic limestone…
It wasn’t until 1962, that Indiana first painted something that would one day become a world-known symbol. It began as a painting, which evolved into a different painting, which eventually evolved into various sculptures, and has now evolved into a national symbol. The original painting entitled Love was just a small work of art. The theme of the artwork, love, still meant a great deal to Indiana though. Soon, various private organizations were asking Indiana to paint various versions of Love for their own personal use. One, entitled Love is God was painted three years after the original artwork was simply stenciled words on a fading, gradient canvas. However, Indiana’s vision of what this art could turn into continued to grow, “the subject in general had been in his mind…
1. Taking a look at the Archaic style of the Kore sculpture and the Classical style of the Polykleitos sculpture, we can note some key differences. The Archaic style sculptures have a rigid/iconic stance but also these sculptures seem to always have a smiling figure. The Classical style on the other hand, is more relaxed stance. The Archaic sculptures where also painted in strong colors such as red and black.…
A significant difference between the Archaic Greek sculptures and the Classical Greek sculptures is the poses held by the statues. The Archaic sculptures poses were strictly frontal; their one leg was usually advanced whilst the other leg was drawn behind. Both sides of the body were symmetrical. They also wore the Archaic smile which, one may assume was used as a way of making the statuses appear far more humanlike Contrary, the Classical sculptures also had a four square shape yet their standing figures balance position had been altered. The axis of the body was now a long double curve and the head was positioned subtly to the one side.…
As I walked into the first gallery, I saw a wood sculpture that stood in the center of the room. This carving depicted "the crucified Christ, flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist with Angels holding instruments of the Passion". It was painted oak and very appealing to the eye. It stood approximately 15 feet in the air. The origin of this sculpture is unknown, but it was found in a Belgium church. This kind of sculpture usually stood at the entrance or at the center of the alter in the church facing the congregation. This image of the suffering Christ relates to the Christian ideas of suffering and Christ's salvation of all mankind.…
The Reformation and Art Amid the Middle Ages, The Catholic Church had unfathomable control over Western Europe. Their authority was over the souls of men, selling indulgences for those that already died, so that they to would be spared, saying works are a genuine way to God. But not only in the spiritual realm did they have power; kings, queens, and private land owners had to consult the church in all manner of things, from war to marriages, that's why when Martin Luther came saying, the church and Pope were fiat, and had no claim over the spiritual order, an important event happened. The Protestant Reformation was one not only of the church, but of politics and art. It all really started with Martian Luther, and his The Ninety-Five…
In this painting God is depicted as an elderly white-bread man wrapped in a swirling cloak while Adam, is in the lower left and is completely nude while sitting on a large boulder. God’s right arm is extended to impact the spark of life from his own finger into Adam whose left arm is extended in pose mirroring God. Adam appears to be completely nude sitting on what seems to be a rocky hill God and Adam’s finger are not touching which gives the impression that God is reaching out to Adam and Adam is receiving. God is surrounded by many females; they are wrapped around his whole body.…
The Protestant Reformation was one of the first times in history that the power and authority of the Pope was challenged. With the Protestant Reformation came a switch from public to private artwork. One major innovation that facilitated this change was the printing press. The printing press was responsible for the distribution of the 95 theses which is what first led to the questioning of the Popes authority. The printing press also allowed art to be reproduced, a quality that was very important to Protestants and their ability to keep artwork private within their homes.…