Art History Museum Paper This past weekend‚ I decided to re-visit the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena and picked out the Reclining Nude by Jean-Antoine Watteau which dated 1713-1717 and its medium was oil on panel. Usually‚ the works of art that are showcased in a museum are hung along the sides of the walls for the viewers to have easy access to seeing them. The work of art I chose was placed in a very small insert along the wall that wasn’t even big enough to fit 5 people in. I would say that
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Michelangelo’s sculpture of David was sculpted to represent David’s victory of the tyrant Goliath and was supposed to represent the Republican Florence (Sayre‚ 2010). Many of the citizens objected to the nudity and many threw rocks at the sculpture to the point where individuals had to be paid to watch over it. After all of the objection there was a skirt made to cover the mid section of David. Marcel Duchamp‚ Nude Descending a Staircase artwork brought a lot of controversy among Americans when
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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 creating their masterpiece
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viewer‚ and making her sensuality explicit. Titian’s composition is and use of color is a common indicator of his Venetian Renaissance style. The frankness of Venus’s expression is often noted; she stares straight at the viewer‚ unconcerned with her nudity‚ making it clear she is ready to please. In her right hand she holds a posy of roses whilst her left covers her groin‚ provocatively placed in the center of the composition. In the near background is a dog‚ often a symbol of either fidelity or sexual
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activities or behaviour. There is a difference between being “nude” and “naked.” In art‚ nude implies form and shape‚ the human body’s aesthetic qualities; naked‚ on the contrary‚ is deprivation of clothes or bareness in an embarrassing manner. In art‚ nudity is not the focus but mainly used as the form or medium for the artist’s representation. We experience art in sensory‚ emotional and intellectual manner. Art is a matter of
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“The Naked and the Nude” by Robert Graze is a work of connecting the certain aspects of the title and representing the literature as a distinguished acquisition to contrasting the phrases and meanings. Indeed‚ the purpose of “Naked” and “Nude” varies to the devices being used to categorize each; such as‚ the “Naked” uses imagery to represent positive outlooks‚ and the “Nude” represents the tone of negative remarks. “Lovers without reproach will gaze‚” the poem already introduces the personified
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not found in the area‚ she is said to have been brought to Australia and not originally carved where she was found. This artifact is very important to prehistoric art. Important for a few reasons‚ one the artifact is female‚ and she is nude. The nudity of Venus is quite revealing of the woman body. She is a very heavy set female; her abdomen hangs to right above her pubic area. She is resting her arms on her very large breasts‚ that do not focus any attention what so ever to the nipple area. The
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You are required to discuss a work by a 20th or 21st century artist‚ photographer‚ designer‚ architect‚ film-maker‚ philosopher or writer and show how this work reflects‚ contradicts or extends theories of and attitudes to visual culture current at the time of its making. I have chosen Sally Mann as my artist as she is an extraordinary photographer that went against the grain to create something completely different. She has a strange way of making outstanding‚ personal imagery. She inspires my
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female nude is degrading the power of women. It makes women look like they are nothing but an object of male desires. The characteristic of the women in the paintings‚ their large breast and bottoms‚ it all appears to be designed for male voyeur. Nudity is a uniform for “I’m ready now for sexual pleasures”[i] In my opinion‚ the nude in European paintings is an expression of beauty and great art. There were reasons for the painter to choose these women as an object. There was something special
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Images of the Naked Body: With the Essays of Bordo and Nochlin The naked body has become such an ordinary image in advertisements‚ movies‚ and art‚ and has been in the media for so long that it is no longer as startling to viewers as it once was. Linda Nochlin and Susan Bordo are two authors that use images and representations that embrace the naked body in their writing. Although their essays both revolve around images similar in this way‚ the images themselves as well as the two essays about
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