The Parthenon in Athens is the most famous surviving building of Ancient Greece and one of the most famous buildings in the world. It was built to worship Athena-the goddess of war and wisdom in 448-432 BCE. This architecture included many sculptures such as metopes‚ free-standing‚ and frieze. Most Greek temples have few decorated metopes‚ but there is a difference because in the Parthenon all ninety-two metopes were decorated on all sides with scenes from Greek mythology. Each side of the Parthenon
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The year 1913 a wonderful bronze sculpture of a mermaid was created in Langeline‚ Copenhagen. Edvard Eriksen made this magnificent sculpture as a request to Carl Jacobsen‚ because he wanted to give something to the people of Copenhagen. Edvard made the statue renaissance. In 1909‚ Carl Jacobsen founder of Carl’s berg beer attended Hans Becks and Fini He4nriques ballet The Little Mermaid. Which is based on Hans Christian fairy tale by the same name. Deeply impressed‚ Carl Jacobsen asked Danish
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Gil Bruvel created "The Wind" as a part of his "Flow" series in 2010. The sculpture is the face of a woman as the wind blows gently across her skin. The work is stainless steel and measures 16 inches high by 22 inches wide by 14 inches in diameter and weighing approximately 55 pounds. (Bruvel) Christopher David White created "Asphyxia" in 2013 as he continued to explore his theme of "growth and decay". His sculpture is of a woman’s face as she gasps for her last breath of air. The ceramic and
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face. Carole Feuerman made the Dress Rehearsal and Splash sculptures in 2009‚ using resin and oil materials‚ and is currently located in the Amarillo Museum of Art. The artist uses two different types of methods for displaying her art. First‚ one of the three pieces is set up on the far right of the wall so it doesn’t block the other two pieces; also‚ it is placed on a small rectangular pedestal so that the very bottom of the sculpture can be
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Lincoln gazes out as if he is looking at you and is constructed a slightly downward expression. Lincoln has his hands resting on the sides as well as his coat unbuttoned. From observing the sculpture we can also see the American flag draping across and over the sides and on the arms of the chair. In this sculpture‚ in order to achieve the correct placement of Lincoln’s hands‚ French created casts of his own fingers which helped him analyse where he needed to put them. Analysis The composition is
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back at both Verrochio’s and Donatello’s Davids‚ the sculpture was depicted standing over Goliath’s severed head. However‚ Michelangelo depicted David before the battle. Michelangelo’s David will become one of the most beautiful and ideal sculptures during the Renaissance. I think one of the reasons why Michelangelo’s David became so famous was because of the way it stood. David is the perfect example of contrapposto. If you examine the sculpture of David‚ you can see that the body is placing all of
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In the sculpture‚ Buddha with Wall by Rachel Harrison‚ a Buddha is carved with plastic and has a wooden wall learning against him. In Patrick by Oliver Herring‚ the sculpture is of a model sitting on a stool. Harrison’s and Herring’s sculptures are similar when discussing size and orientation because they are both life-sized. However‚ they are different when it comes to the detailing and viewing of the sculptures because of the orientation‚ the space surrounding the sculptures‚ and the materials
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A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah was an innocent boy who enjoyed playing football‚ swimming in the streams‚ and even started a rap and dance group with his friends and older brother. The group discovered their love for rap music from old cassette tapes of O.P.P‚ Run D.M.C‚ and the Sugarhill Gang. Ishmael and Junior‚ along with their other friends cherished these few hip hop and rap cassette tapes. Ishmael constantly carried these couple tapes on him at all times. They choreographed dance routines
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some similarities between the two articles. The two articles are similar because they haves the same topic. Both of the articles are giving information on slavery and explaining it’s past. “For more than 200 years‚ powerful kings in what is now Benin captured and
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in Frankfurt‚ Germany. Since the denim is still hard and basically shapeless‚ it is cut‚ sewn and made soft at Ras Jebel by washers for 58p and hour‚ using pumice from the volcano in Turkey. Italdenim buys the cotton from a lot of sources including Benin‚ in West Africa. The cotton pickers earn 60p a day‚ which is much less than what the washers
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