random pattern‚ perfectly fits into its geological condition. This museum is beautiful. The sculpture by the entrance is very abstract. It looks like a big metal coin but is distorted in the middle. Going into the building‚ there are a lot of art works inside. One of the interesting things is that the main lighting supply
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Taking A Stance On Public Art (Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc) The monumental sculpture titled Tilted Arc by Richard Serra is considered by the general public to be a nuisance‚ eyesore‚ inconvenience‚ and certainly not a work of art. It has been commissioned by the Arts-in-Architecture program of the U.S. General Services Administration‚ which earmarks 0.5 percent of a federal building’s cost for artwork.The sculpture was a solid‚ unfinished plate of Core-Ten steel‚ 120 feet long‚ 12 feet high‚ and
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powerful rulers during the middle kingdom. This small‚ black granite sculpture that caught my eye is of him. It was created during the time of the middle kingdom. It is not known for sure‚ but this artwork is believed to be from Hierakonpolis‚ Egypt. During this time period‚ sculptures of kings depicted a more real look. The Middle Kingdom lasted from c. 1975-1640 BCE. Art was very important to the Egyptian culture. The sculpture of King Senwosret III has certain characteristics that make it obvious
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Also like Canova his subject is in the nude. Rodin ’s bronze sclupture is on our ground level. Also unlike Canova ’s Pereus Rodin ’s work interacts more with it ’s space and the viewer. In fact this sculpture was modeled in the round‚ Rodin said the following about it‚ "When I begin a figure‚ I first look at the front‚ the back‚ the two profiles of right and left‚ that is‚ their countours from four angles; then‚ with clay‚ I arrange the large mass as
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Short writing Assignment 2 The marble female figure is a sculpture selected from the Ancient Greek and Roman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan. It’s also known as the final Neolithical Cycladic marble. The figure‚ now missing its head is an example of an uncommon type known as steatopygous. This sculpture is a representation of the Human Body in which its described by its distinctive features. It has a thin torso
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These two David’s sculptures might look very different from each other at the first glance‚ but if you study them close‚ they actually have many similarities. One of Donatello’s best-known work portrays David after he defeated Goliath by striking him with a stone and cutting his head off with Goliath’s own sword. Donatello was the first artist that created a nude life-sized sculpture since antiquity. His bronze sculpture of David indicates that he completely mastered the classical tradition of art
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him make his own piece of work that became known as the Nude Descending a Staircase. Michelangelo’s sculpture of David was made to represent the victory of the tyrant Goliath and was also suppose to represent the Republican Florence. Many citizens did not like the nudity and some even opposed it by throwing rocks at the sculpture. Later on there where people who were paid to look after the sculpture. There was then made a skirt to cover the mid section of David. Both artists spent a lot of time
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career‚ he has created sculptures‚ and produced events with their dissemination as photographic images in mind. In the exhibit Cattelan dangled from ropes and cables every single work—or their images—he had created in the twenty-one years of his ‘making art‚’ a gigantic mobile. Titled "All‚" fills one of the most famous architectural voids in the world with what surely ranks as one of the largest‚ most complicated‚ visually muddled mobiles in the history of art. The sculpture‚ seemingly so out of context
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The Athlete Kreugas by Antonio Canova a beautiful sculpture‚ it is a statue of an athlete in motion. This particular figure represents the neo-classical trend in eighteenth-century sculpture. It is a free replica of a life-size marble statue made by the same artist. This sculpture stands at 25 ½ inches tall and the medium is bronze‚ a very commonly used metal. Due to the nudity you can tell this sculpture is from a time period long ago. Sculptures of this time period were typically nude; artists of
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many pieces of Egyptian Art‚ has been collected such as sculpture‚ painting‚ pottery and papyri‚ it’s such a treasure. During this visit‚ I was very excited to see those arts‚ but the art piece I chose is called Bust of a King. The objective of this homework is to bring an interest in this art that I will try to narrate this piece. Name and Date of the Piece: The collection of art I decided to use is called the Bust of a king. This sculpture was found in Egypt‚ during the Ptolemaic period‚ dating
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