born in Newark‚ New Jersey in 1945. She studied at Syracuse University‚ Parsons School of Design‚ and the School of Visual Arts in New York and has exhibited all over the world. She has worked from having a design job at "Mademoiselle Magazine"‚ soon becoming the head designer. Later working as a graphic designer‚ art director‚ and picture editor in the art departments at "House and Garden"‚ "Aperture" and other publications. This greatly influenced her work as an artist. Barbara
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representation of a person‚ animal or mythical being produced by sculpturing‚ modeling‚ or casting. (Webster Dictionary Online‚ n.d.).’’ The statue of Memi and Sabu as well as the seated statue of Gudea has a great historical and cultural value in art history. Back in the Middle Ages‚ statues were used in telling stories of culture and societies and a form of enlightenments to the people as opposed to the modern day writing and digital designs which is readily available for use. It helps to inform
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John Baldessari was born in 1931 in National City‚ California and continues to live and create art in California (John Baldessari Bio). “[Baldessari] attended San Diego State University and did post-graduate work at Otis Art Institute‚ Chouinard Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley”‚ he then continued to teach from 1970-1988; Baldessari went back to teaching from 1966-2007 (John Baldessari Bio). With over 200 solo exhibitions around the world‚ Baldessari uses multiple mediums
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afterlife and shared similar underlying ideas; nevertheless‚ their way to prepare the deceased for the next life and funeral services differed in many ways. To illustrate their practices‚ I have chosen two artifacts displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met): a coffin from Ancient Egypt and a cinerary urn from Ancient Roman’s times. Both pieces reflect different ways of treating the corpses of their deceased and prepare the dead for the journey to the afterlife which undoubtedly was a long and
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rebellious ideas and actions in the 20th century. He was born in France but moved to the USA‚ and became a US citizen in 1955. His works were known as “Ready-mades”. Duchamp’s ready-mades changed what art meant. He bought elements that would never have been regarded as art. Some people saw it as less art and more “putting together”. This movement was called “Dadaism”. This essay will discuss two artworks; “The Weeping Woman” - by Pablo Picasso‚ and‚ “The Shovel” – by Marcel Duchamp. “The Weeping
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Sculpture art during the Baroque period brought us many beautiful pieces as artists began to give their work more ornate and fancier detail. French Sculptor Clodion (Claude Michael) embraced his era’s taste for antiquity and received a number of commissions throughout his career‚ which spanned the last decades of the ancient régime through the French Revolution and Napoleon ’s reign (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). While his theme was most often Neoclassical‚ a name given to pieces of art that were
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all rides it could not sell.[2][4] The board’s original plan was to sell the carousel and the narrow-gauge railway rides.[5] Only the carousel remained in Indianapolis after it was unsold;[2] the steam locomotive is now at the Indiana Transportation Museum at Noblesville‚ Indiana.[6]The carousel was commissioned by William Hubbs‚[3] who had it installed in White City Amusement Park in 1917. Built on a Mangel-Illions mechanism‚[7] it used animals carved by the Dentzel carousel company of Philadelphia
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Comparative Analysis of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and The Dance The Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907‚ Museum of Modern Art‚ New York)‚ is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. This is an image of five nudes grouped around a still life. Of the five figures‚ four of the figures are facing the viewer. There is a disjunction in the fifth figure as she is crouched on the floor‚ her back away from the viewer‚ while her face‚ or mask‚ addresses the viewer. This vertically aligned painting measures
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The artwork that I have chosen to critique is by an American artist named Robert Motherwell‚ (1915 -1991). The particular piece I have chosen is called "Open" # 150 in black and cream 1970 acrylic on canvas 69 x 204 1/4 inches at the Modern Museum. This artwork is a symmetrical balanced abstract painting that is about 41 years old and is horizontal in its organization and is made up of one neutral color cream rectangle inside at the top of one large intense black color rectangle. Counting a total
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Alex Skolnik November 23‚ 2013 Art History Outline 1) Title of the piece: Metropolitan Kouros Date: 600-590 BCE Medium: Naxian Marble Dimensions: Heigh 6’4 5/8" Meseum location: The Metropolitan Meseum of Art 2) This free standing sculpture shows signs of egyptian influence on Greek art. The pose has one foot standing forward while one is behind‚ the arms rest at the side with supports attatched to the tehighs‚ and the face shows no emotion and the eyes seem to have no pupils
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