was made with bronze‚ gold‚ silver but the most that Greeks used to make is metal to make art. But there was something stronger than metal‚ it was…..iron‚ iron is harder than metal. Metal can be melted down and made into something else‚ many metal sculptures and other metal items were melted down so they could be for other things. The Greeks made many things like bowls and vases‚ cauldrons‚ knives and daggers‚ shields‚ armour‚ decorative drinking cups‚ and lanterns. They also made fine jewellery such
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body. He asked questions such as‚ where do we begin and where do we end? Gormley was an artist creating sculptures of the human body and placing them in various positions‚ and in random places. Gormley was nowhere near knowledgeable about his art but through his art he found a way to help people recognize the same questions he had. However‚ Antony did not stop there‚ these human body sculptures are not just some thrown together shapes. These bodies share the exact same body index as Gormley. They
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Period of time (42‚000 – 8‚000 BCE) reaching to our contemporary artists of today. One of the most representing works to the Eclecticism period‚ a sculpture was titled “UGOLINO AND HIS SONS”. It was done in 1861 CE using Saint-Béat marble. It has a size of approximately (78.75 in. x 59 in. x 43.5 in.)‚ height to width to depth ratio. The sculpture was done by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux‚ a French sculptor and painter who was born in Valenciennes‚ Nord‚ and part of northern France in 1827. Carpeaux was
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Title: “The Thinker” Artist: August Rodin Source: Rodin‚ A. (1902). The thinker [Bronze and marble sculpture]. Paris‚ France: Musée Rodin. The “The Thinker” is a bronze sculpture by August Rodin which is placed on a stone pedestal. The work shows a nude male figure sitting on a rock with its chin resting on one hand as though he was deep in thought. The sculpture was originally made as an entranceway for the proposed Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. The thinker is at its current location the Musee
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Sculpture has been a very important part of art history throughout thousands of years. For the past few months I have viewed many different kinds of sculpture‚ including Greek archaic sculptures‚ Greek classical sculptures‚ Greek Hellenistic sculptures and Roman sculptures. All of the sculptures that I have seen and analyzed have very interesting characteristics‚ but the one that I have analyzed most recently was the most fascinating. Hermes carrying the infant Dionysos‚ by the artist Praxiteles
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Togo Listeni/ˈtoʊɡoʊ/‚ officially the Togolese Republic (French: République Togolaise)‚ is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west‚ Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea‚ where its capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately 57‚000 square kilometres (22‚000 sq mi) with a population of approximately 6.7 million. Togo is a tropical‚ sub-Saharan nation‚ highly dependent on agriculture‚ with a climate that provides good
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sculptor. 2 years later‚ he completed the world famous marble sculpture of David. Throughout the years after he completed the David sculpture‚ he made the Orsanmichele St. Mark in 1413 and St. John the Evangelist in
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period in Greek sculpture is the Classical period. During this glorious period of unbelievable craftsmanship‚ numerous pieces celebrated the Greek’s infatuation with fable and war. The sculpture‚ nicely titled Centaur Abducting Lapith Woman and Fallen Lapith Man‚ is a wonderful symbol of the artistic period and image of war. Sculpted somewhere around 447-438 B.C.‚ the sculpture was carved out of solid marble to produce a beautiful‚ and yet horrifying scene from a battle. This sculpture was most likely
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constructing what he considered the ideal human figure‚ which he set down in treatise called “The Canon” (kanon is a Greek word for “measure‚” “rule‚” or “law”). Polykleitos’ Canon included the following: The sculptures body was 8 heads tall Sculptures had godlike grandeur Sculptures emphasized weight shift also known as contrapposto. The canon also included guidelines for symmetria (“commensurability”)‚ by which Polykleitos meant the relationship of body parts to one another. Polyklietos
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the structure and or behavior of a building or any other kind of system that is to be or has been constructed. Sculpture Sculpture is the act and art of making three-dimensional works of art such as statues. Sculptures may be carved‚ chiseled‚ modeled‚ cast‚ or constructed. They can be made of many different materials such as wood‚ stone‚ clay‚ metal‚ sand‚ ice‚ and even balloons. A person who creates sculpture is called an sculptor. Sculptors use many different materials in their work such as stone‚ bronze
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