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    of sculpting into the future. Known by many as “the father of modern sculpture (Bio.)‚” Rodin has produced such a great number of notable works that he is one of the “few artists recognizable to the general public (Brucker).” As art was shifting from the portrayal of mythical scenes and historical events to a focus on everyday life in the Impressionist period‚ Rodin brought attention to the lives common people through sculpture. It can be derived from his failed attempts in applying to the classic

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    the interaction between Dionysus and Pan in a form of sculpture. The sculpture was created from beautiful marble in A.D. 50 – 150. The work is three dimensional and still in excellent shape. There is almost no sign of physical or visible damage on sculpture which is rare because it has been created about two thousand years ago. This durability of the piece must be credited to the sculptor for having engineering intelligence to make the sculpture stay intact for so long. The artwork includes organic

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    Bacchus is a marble sculpture approximately 72 ½ inches in height made in around 1497 by one of the High Renaissance masters‚ Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. The sculpture itself shows two figures‚ a god and a faun or panisc: a half-man‚ half-goat figure in Greek culture. It is one of young Michelangelo’s earliest sculptures and it is arguably also one of his roughest. The figure‚ Bacchus‚ stands in a sway‚ an “s” curvature to his stance that is referred to as contrapposto. Contrapposto

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    which reads‚ “My name is Ozymandias‚ King of Kings.” This shows his pride because he elevates himself above all the other kings by suggesting that he is superior to all the kings that lived in his time. Ozymandias was a very unpleasant man. A sculpture of a person usually shows their best side but Ozymandias’ shows his face with a frown‚ wrinkled lip and snear of cold command as stated in lines four and five which read‚ “Half sunk‚ a shattered visage lies‚ whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer

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    Mriganka Pal is born in Krishnanagar‚ Nadia‚ West Bengal. He is a Gold Medalist. He has done his Diploma in Sculpture from Rabindra Bharti University‚ in Calcutta. He has participated in several national exhibitions in India. He also have achieved several awards in different exhibitions such as Award from Indian Society of Oriental Art in 1988‚ Certificate of Merit from Bombay Art Society‚ in 1992 and award from Mountaineers Association of Krishnanagar in 2008. T.V Programme ‘Tanabana’‚ is broadcasted

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    The Kritios boy belongs to the Late Archaic period and is the first sculpture that displays accurate human features that would later be the foundation of classical sculptures. The Kritios boy was named because it is believed to be the work of Krito‚ the teacher of Myron‚ from around 480 BCE. The statue is made of marble and is considerably smaller than a life-size human‚ standing at 1.17m. The torso of the sculpture was first found buried outside the Acropolis in 1866.The head was later found 23

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    relief ‐ the backgrounds are not cut back and the points in highest relief are level with the original surface of the material being carved low/bas relief ‐ they are shallow high relief ‐ the forms stand far out from the background. sculpture‐in‐the‐round – is sculpture you can go around. subtractive process – the act of removing. Carving ‐ The technique of cutting and abrading the surface of a block of material to shape it into a particular form. additive process ‐The process of producing colors

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    archaistic female figure. The statue was created between 27 B.C to A.D 68‚ which was during the Augustan or Julio- Claudian period. The original artist is unknown‚ but Vincenzo Pacetti restored it. This artwork caught my attention because the size of the sculpture was different from other artwork in the room. The work is guiding viewers’ attention to a primary focal point‚ which is the bend in his left arm. There are three different aspects of the composition‚ which lead the viewer to the focal point. Those

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    entire face disappears in shadow‚ leaving only the mouth that utters the cry.  The background is a sort of curtain of shadows from which the figure emerges. Birds in Space Constantin Brancusi In this sculpture‚ Brancusi concentrated on the physical attributes of the bird on its movement. The bird’s wings and feathers are eliminated‚ the swell if the body is elongated‚ and the head and the beak are reduced to a slanted oval.

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    west Africa. It was a center of trade that was influential interms of trade. It connected extensively with the local and long distance traders which enabled them prosper This made the artist of Ife to be developed and highly naturalistic in their sculpture‚ which were made out of stone‚ terracotta‚ brass and copper which was unique at that time

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