a large‚ spindly sculpture outside the main doors. It is of a spider with a sack of eggs under its abdomen. a. What is your initial reaction upon seeing this piece? At first I was quite taken aback by the presence of such an intimidating sculpture of a spider in front of me‚ though as I walked closer to it‚ I became more and more curious as to what its meaning is. I am most definitely afraid of spiders‚ and I found it odd that they placed such an intimidating sculpture at the front entrance
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victim‚ Goliath rather he is admiring his graceful‚ powerful body as a result of him winning the battle. This David has long hair‚ which highlights the time period and it almost looks like Donatello used this sculpture to move away from the biblical representation This is one amongst many sculptures of the Renaissance art whereby admiration of self-worth was mainly the
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“I Am for an Art‚” 1961 [Stiles‚ pp. 335-337]1. While reading this you are able to see a different perspective of looking at what art is and what type of art is actually accepted by society. Oldenburg himself was a pop artist and has many famous sculptures that are being displayed at museums and in major cities. In this text written by Oldenburg he talks about seeing different‚ day to day things as art. It drew me in very quickly because it made me think about the so called things we call art actually
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those of the human body Architectural drawing terms : Plan – a horizontal slice of a building Section – a vertical slice of a building Elevation – the arrangement proportions and details of any vertical side or face of a building Sculpture terms Relief – sculpture that project ~ High relief – half or more projects far from
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Yoko Ono Art Exhibit Going to this exhibit showed me that people really do care about the world. There are not many people in society that care enough to voice their opinion‚ or go out of their way to try to make the world a better place. Yoko Ono is a rare and very inspiring person. The Rauschenberg Art Gallery depicted many of Yoko Onos’ inspiring works of art. The light tower‚ wish tree‚ and imagine peace tower were the three I paid the most attention to. These three exhibits all showed Yoko’s
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uproar when they found out the price tag that it came with. The artist and the government were scrutinized for allegedly paying 175‚000 dollars for a piece of what some described as a piece of rusty metal. Henceforth the public petition to have the sculpture removed‚ not only because of its large occupancy of space but also because it was an eye sore and a potential hazard. More than 1300 people signed the petition and the matter was taken to court. After eight years after the birth of the Tilted Arc
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chapter 3 Seeing the Value in Art Fig. 44 Sylvie Fleury‚ Serie ELA 75/K (Plumpity . . . Plump)‚ 2000. Gold-plated shopping cart‚ plexiglas handle with vinyl text‚ rotating pedestal (mirror‚ aluminum‚ motor). 32 3/4 37 3/4 215/8 in. Pedestal 121/4 393/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber‚ Zürich‚ Switzerland. A 40 t the end of Chapter 2‚ we briefly mentioned the explosive career of JeanMichel Basquiat after a number of his graffiti-like paintings were exhibited
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between the two disciplines. Fine-art objects are not constrained by the laws of physics in the same way that applied-art objects are. Because their primary purpose is not functional‚ they are only limited in terms of the materials used to make them. Sculptures must‚ for example‚ be stable‚ which requires an
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Powers. Plus the Kinetic Art Organization has published a digital “International Collection of Essays About Kinetic Art—2013—volume 1.” The two don’t overlap: The MIT show highlights a somewhat different segment of artists working with motion in sculpture‚ 4 names‚ some of whom owe more to Yves Tinguely and Calder’s Circus than Calder’s mobiles and George Rickey (the primary influences for many if not most of the artists in the KAO book. 16139 KB 172 pages Kinetic Art Organization (October 7‚ 2013)
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One of the finest relief sculptures that had been created around 1500 BCE was the The Harvester’s Vase. The vase structure was created out of black steatite and it had an appearance comparatively to an ostrich egg. The low relief vase depicts a group of harvesters in profile view‚ singing and walking with harvesting tools on their shoulders. One particular harvester‚ that was singing and shaking an Egyptian percussion instrument‚ ribs are exaggerated to an extent where scholars have hypothesized
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