back her bow and arrow in preparation for release. Due to its size‚ color‚ and placement this piece is the focal point in the room. Directly across from the statue suspended above the open space and staircase below is Alexander Calder’s Ghost. This sculpture is not well lit and the area on the second floor in which is hangs is an almost empty space that doesn’t have other gallery entrances near it and almost feels closed off. Hung from the ceiling‚ Ghost is a thirty-four foot tall mobile comprised of
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Gazing into the past we see a wide variety of artwork‚ one in particular is a female figure found within the MIA Museum. This sculpture is made entirely of marble and originated in the Cyclade Islands that are part of Greece. It is exactly 41.3 cm high‚ four cm wide at the top‚ and 10.8 cm wide near the bottom. It has various defined body parts such as the head‚ nose‚ neck‚ chest‚ arms‚ waist‚ legs‚ and feet. The female figure has very clear visual lines across the entire body. These lines help
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from my point of view with out outside influences. I was able to ascertain the they were both from different geographical locations but shared a similar heritage. The different geographical locations was based on the clothing and text used in each sculpture. The similar heritage is apparent because of the broad features of both subject. Both works showed great detail in the shape of the human body in the curve of muscles to the nails on their fingers and toes. My initial response The Royal Acquaintances
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message. But everything has some sort of underlying meaning. What I saw was an idea of art within art. The artist loves art so much that even his creations love art. The creator‚ creating and then the created‚ creating. Johnson was known for his sculptures of people doing everyday activities. This woman is drawing‚ and although it is not an everyday activity for everyone‚ it is for Johnson. This is an expression of himself in another person. Although there are many copies of this artwork‚ what
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the contrapposto position first seen in the Kritios Boy (ca 480 BC). The function of sculptures during this period was mostly to glorify gods and athletes usually depicted as male nudes. One of the most renowned sculptures of an athlete from that period is Polykleitos’ Doryphoros a bronze original (ca 450 BC) that now only exists in marble copies. Polykleitos made it to serve as a standardization for future sculptures. He intended to perfect the human being using the contrapposto pose as well as measuring
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Whether it’s a painting‚ architecture‚ music‚ literature‚ or a sculpture‚ art can interpret emotions in extraordinary means. The Kiss sculpture by Auguste Rodin and The LOVE sculpture by Robert Indiana both convey love‚ but The Kiss imparts an intimate and personal connection‚ while LOVE is more modern and illustrates a lighter form of the emotion through pop art. The Kiss sculpture features two affectionate people embracing. The sculpture proclaims passion and adoration though the intimacy the two
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Metropolitan Museum of Art November 10‚ 2011 The work of art I chose was “The Angel of Death and The Sculptor” by Daniel Chester French. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website‚ he recreated this piece based on the authentic sculpture by Martin Milmore. Martin Milmore created the piece as a memorial in honor of his brother’s death. The original artwork was made of bronze‚ but French recreated the piece out of marble. The original work of art is located in Forest Hills Cemetery
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of Aphrodite‚ which is also known as Venus Genetrix‚ is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is a Roman copy‚ which was created in the Imperial period‚ approximately between the first and the second century A.D. The original sculpture was Greek‚ made of bronze and is dated to the late fifth century B.C.E.‚ which is the Late Classical period. The museum approximates that its creator is Kallimachos‚ or Callimachus. Scholars state that there is not much information about this Greek
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critical texts on Serra’s work‚ can be applied to the "New Sculptures" (all works 2013) on view at Gagosian’s two Chelsea locations. Remarkably consistent with Serra’s output of the past decades‚ the five pieces—uniformly large in scale and ambition—are striking interventions‚ forcefully reordering the space of the gallery. And yet‚ these works also help measure just how far the context in which Serra produces and exhibits his sculpture has shifted since the late 1960s. In truth‚ I’ve never liked
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Granodiorite‚ 1359-1349 B.C.) and the Statue of Asklepios (Greek‚ Hellenistic period‚ Pentelic Marble‚ 2nd century B.C.) are two sculptures made hundreds of years apart‚ yet they both display many similarities and show how art is constantly changing whilst keeping the same core ideas. The Torso of a God is a sculpture located at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco. The sculpture is of a pharaoh holding a staff in front of its chest with his left hand. In his right hand he is holding something that
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