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    david mach

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    tyres‚ match sticks and coat hangers. Here are two sculptures of David Mach: Sculpture 1: Gorilla Materials used: -He has used wire hangers in his pieces of art. Mach first creates a plastic base of the figure he then wraps in coat hangers. Hundreds of basic hangers are welded together and then the plastic base is removed‚ leaving the hanger sculpture ready for silver nickel plating. Scale: - the scale of the work is very big. The sculptures he designs are enormous. Location:- King Silver‚

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    made between the years 2600-2300 BCE. My second art pieces is a sculptor as well from Etruscans‚ it’s sarcophagus of Lars Pulena. It was made in 200 BCE. Although both of this are male sculpture‚ they are different. I will compare these two sculpture from two different areas technique and style. I n the first sculpture male harp player‚ we notice that the face and the body are over simplify and highly abstract which makes it flat. In the other hand sarcophagus figure is carved in and out which add

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    Attic Lion

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    of the lion crouching stance strikes balance of the sculpture‚ it looks solid in this pose. A standing lion sculpture would be off balance than sitting or crouching ones. Another characteristic of Attic Lions is their movements. The sculpture shows lion crouching and bending‚ as if it was form a combat stance or holding a bone. The Dominance aspect of sculpture is the mane‚ as it is the stand out part‚ which drawn our attention. The sculpture has no unity or variety because it is just a simply a

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    After taking a trip to the Laumeier Sculpture Park‚ one of the works of art that stood out was the unique “Triangle Bridge Over Water” sculpture. This art was created by Dan Graham in 1990. Dan Graham was born on March 21‚ 1942 in Urbana‚ Illinois (Jeannette 1). As an artist his main works focused on video art‚ mirrors‚ and architecture. Which some of these focuses can be especially brought out in the “Triangle Bridge Over Water” work. One example of this is the architecture of the bridge. There

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    Head Of Anubis Analysis

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    Massachusetts. At the museum‚ they had one large exhibit featuring Ancient Art. The exhibit consisted of many paintings‚ and different types of pottery from the Roman period. There were about ten sculptures in the Ancient Art exhibit‚ but the one piece that caught my eye was the Head of Anubis sculpture. This sculpture was the only piece from Egyptian descent and gave the room an ominous feeling. My chosen piece was estimated to be from 16th century BC to 8th century BC and an unknown artist or artisan made

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    Cultural Paper

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    do not know too much about art and humanities unless it was from a textbook. I do not understand these feelings the artist has experienced and I do not view the work of art as the same way they do. However‚ I do appreciate creativity of art and sculptures. There was a whole room dedicated to a man named Earl Cunningham. His life was centered around sailing ships and the ocean. His paintings were of the coasts‚ boats‚ and the ocean. They were very beautiful paintings‚ but also the story behind it

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    Greek Art Research Paper

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    female and male body should look‚ and our concept of architectural brilliance as we still praise the Parthenon’s beauty to this day. With the Ancient Greeks‚ the concept of beauty in Western culture has been transcribed through Greek antiquity. Sculpture‚ glasswork‚ casting and manufacture‚ along with

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    developments of sculpture are closely associated with the emergence of human society. A sculpture is the history of human identity recording the thoughts‚ culture‚ and aesthetic concept of the people at that age‚ and also reflects the worship of one generation to another. The Marble Statue of a Youthful Hercules‚ a Roman marble sculpture from A.D. 69 to 98‚ Flavian dynasty‚ depicts the Greek Mythology hero: Hercules . In contrast‚ Commemorative Portrait of a Chief (Lefem)‚ an African wood sculpture from 19th

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    Pueblo Maiden Essay

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    throughout the sculpture. The head is small and round. The hairstyle is short and square shaped. It is similar to a women’s “bob” hairstyle with bangs that covers the figures forehead and ears. The surface of sculpture is smooth. The face features two indentations which look like closed eyes and a rectangle shape for the nose but there is no indentation for a mouth. The head of the figure rests on a narrow shaped neck. The body of the figure is long and oval shaped. The body of the sculpture is the largest

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    The Riace Bronzes

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    The first room of the gallery belongs to the Greek era of artwork and contains two sculptures. The Riace Bronzes‚ which is the first sculpture‚ consists of two naked life size Greek soldiers and was created around 460-420 b.c.e. This two-piece sculpture is important to the Greek era because it is one of the only original bronze pieces left from this time period. The joint sculpture was formed with a wax technique that is now lost‚ and marks the transition from the archaic Greek style to the early

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