demonstrated in the interview by Barbara Thomas‚ a 70-year-old retiree. Barbara uses personal anecdotes to account for her experiences throughout her life. In this interview a recurring theme is how her socioeconomic status during her childhood prompted her to make financial and educational decisions that still benefit her today. Consequently‚ Barbara discusses her aging process in terms of successive stages‚ rather than a linear progression. In her interview‚ Barbara discusses her experiences with
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This paper will attempt to give a descriptive analysis and comparison of two medieval sculptures viewed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The first sculpture entitled‚ “Virgin and Child;” attributed to Claus de Werve‚ a Netherlandish sculptor by Pierre Quarre a curator and chief of Musees de Djon and a leading authority on Burgundian sculpture. Claus de Werve was commissioned by the Duke and Duchess of the town of Poligny to create this statue for the convent which was headed by a Francisean nun
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Additional Mathematics Project Work 2012 Sculpture for the Additional Mathematics Corner of Sekolah Tinggi Muar‚ Johor Name : I/C No : School : Sekolah Tinggi Muar Integration Contents 1. Title : Sculpture for the Additional Mathematics Corner of Sekolah Tinggi Muar page 1 2. Appreciations:
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Janet Echelman is an artist who defies categorization. She creates sculptures at the scale of buildings that react to the environment for example‚ wind and light. The art she creates shifts from being an object you look at and becomes a living environment you can get lost in. Using unlikely materials like fishnet‚ “Echelman combines ancient craft with cutting-edge technology to create artworks that have become focal points for urban life on four continents” (Frank). For example “Her Secret is Patience”
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When creating the Statuette of Nedjemu‚ the artist tries to represent the deceased in a manner appropriate for eternity. By using Old Kingdom funerary sculpture conventions‚ the artist achieves the goal of creating a sculpture suitable for placement in a tomb. The artist who created the Statuette of Nedjemu is unknown. The artist was from the Old Kingdom‚ Dynasty V‚ approximately 2500-2350 BC. Although entitled the Statuette of Nedjemu‚ the figure portrayed may not actually be Nedjemu. "This little
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to examine the differences and similarities between early Akkadian and Assyrian art forms by comparing two figural sculptures‚ the Cylinder Seal (Ca. 2254 – 2193 BCE) and the Ashurbanipal hunting scene (Ca. 645 – 640 BCE). Due to cultural and periodical differences‚ it is unavoidable to find varying mastery of techniques‚ negotiated objects or subjects being depicted in the sculptures. These art works‚ however‚ are very similar with respect to their overall purpose and the manner by which early artists
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Constance Whitney Warren’s bronze sculpture entitled‚ Equestrian Portrait of Diego Velazquez 1924 is located between the General Academic Building and the Physics Building at the University of North Texas Denton Campus. Gift of the Harlan crow family in 1994 but the reasons remain in mistery. The composition of the ten foot bronze sculpture was created inspired by the American West and specializing in bronze equestrian statues‚ portrays the famous Spanish painter Diego Velazquez who is riding a horse
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heavy period of transition through the 20th century. At the start‚ sculpture could be summed up in Johann Gottfreid von Herder’s consideration of sculpture as “a harsh reality.” Unlike painting and the other traditional media‚ sculpture was being redefined‚ both formally and technically. Painting‚ despite the many innovations and explorations that occurred in the 20th century‚ was still oil and pigment put on a flat surface. But sculpture‚ rather 3 dimensional arts‚ became so much more dynamic and expansive
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Renaissance Sculpture at NGA Paper One: An Antiquity of Imagination: Tvillio (Tullio) Lombardo and the Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture at NGA Tullio Lombardo‚ one of the most gifted sculptors of all time‚ brought his art alive by integrating classical antiquity and contemporary Renaissance Venice in all his works. People appreciated his creativity because he took the risk of stepping out from the culture of paintings‚ which were popular at his time‚ and emerged the art of sculpture into the
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The sculpture that I decided to reflect upon is L’Offrande (The Offering) by Robert Wlerick. The sculpture is situated in a grassy meadow area in between the academic buildings of Stein and Beaven. The scale of the piece seems to be larger than life. The proportions of the sculpture are larger than an average sized woman and appears almost like an Amazon woman. The Offering is representational and it depicts a nude woman sitting on a step. It appears the sculpture is made out of bronze and has been
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