however nothing in the first few galleries caught my eye. There was a sculpture titled ’Unknown Man’‚ that reminded me of the Kore found in Ancient Greece. However‚ there was not sufficient information to write about it‚ so I moved on. The third gallery had a Book of the Dead‚ divided into three chapters. There was a large crowd around this exhibit‚ so once again I moved on. The next gallery I came to dismayed me also. No large sculptures caught my eye‚ and it seemed that I was doomed to fail this project
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Pygmalion was a sculptor and a king. He was sculpting a woman out of ivory and to him was the most beautiful sculpture of the woman of his heart’s desire. When he saw how beautiful of a sculpture he made‚ and that she wouldn’t respond to his gifts and treats that he would buy her‚ he started to feel lonely and wished that the woman were really there. He wished upon the gods to make the sculpture come alive. At that time when he was away from his home‚ Venus‚ the goddess of love came unto him‚ and granted
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began teaching in New Jersey. He went on to receive his Honorary Ph.D. in Fine Arts‚ from Rutgers University in 1970. George Segal began painting abstract images‚ many of them life sized. However‚ Segal is best known for his dramatic‚ still-life sculptures that he began creating after settling down with his wife Helen. Segal and his wife purchased their own farm. The chicken coops on the farm were turned into a string of studios. In 1968 a student from an art class brought Segal some bandages’ used
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*What are the formal properties of art? Color lines contract texture composition Relief sculpture: a type of sculpture in which forms project from a background surface. Why Piet Mondrian take this seriously‚ Vandoesberg not? M is trying to represent the dynamic balance between a opposing natural forces by using horizontal and vertical lines. He is serious because Van has fundamentally different idea about representing his balance. Feature: balance of vertical and horizontal lines‚ structured‚ controlling
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was a painter‚ sculptor‚ and ceramicist. He was born in Barcelona‚ I have family there‚ and he was a really colorful artist‚ using children’s spirit and a manifestation of the Catalan pride. We grow up in our schools learning about his paints and sculptures‚ using his methods and his colors. Miro In may interviews the artist expressed that he doesn’t like the conventional panting methods and that he loved the unconventional painting. At the beginning of his artist life he was promoting the expressionism
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Typically‚ Greek sculptures were focused on their gods. The Veiled and Masked Dancer is a bronze sculpture of a fully clothed woman who is not a god‚ which showed that there were more to the Greeks than just their gods and myths. The movement perceived in this sculpture indicates that the woman was a dancer‚ most likely a professional entertainer. It is different from most Greek statues because
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our history or where we came from. Sometimes we have more knowledge or we are more attracted about greek mythology that is one of our local legends. For Nemiranda‚as an artist you need to educate someone through visual.Nemiranda likes to create a sculpture home by itself.He immortalized the image of myth philippine mythology it will remind them of the past of our roots of our culture and of being a filipino. The work of art of Nemiranda is a reflection of his own self and his soul. There are many ways
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Antony Gormley “Still Falling” - Antony Gormley Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950‚ his artistic career has spanned over forty years and some of his best known works include “Field”‚ “Waste Man” and “Still Falling”. The majority of Gormley’s sculptures include the human form‚ he claims this is “an attempt to materialise the place at the other side of appearance where we all live”. Gormley was raised in an upper-class Roman Catholic family; he was the oldest of seven children to a German mother
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Spirituality” According to archaeologists‚ the earliest humans used “art” in primitive forms to depict sacred and religious beliefs‚ dating back thousands of years to the early Neanderthals. From very primitive cave drawings in France to modern iconic sculpture‚ painting and drawing‚ it is safe to assume that we were born with an inherent need to express the inexpressible; that which cannot be spoken‚ described‚ or accurately represented: the ineffable. We as humans define “art” in myriad ways in contemporary
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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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