This sculpture is at the Louvre Museum in Paris. It is a sculpture of a woman on the prow of a ship. It looks as though wind from the sea is rippling her dress. This sculpture is also known as the Greek Goddess Nike (Victory) (Bermosa 2008, Para 3). The statue is made of marble and is 10’ 9†in height. The artist however is unknown. According to Bermosa (2008) The rippling of the garments is one of the most compelling aspects of the sculpture to this day.…
When people think of the Declaration of Independence, a certain few figures come to mind; men such as John Hancock, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, or Benjamin Franklin are the first to be acknowledged. However, there were 51 more signers than just them. 56 brave lawyers, doctors, merchants, ministers and plantation owners signed their own death warrants by defying the King of England to gain their own independence from faraway tyranny. Each of these men had vastly different stories, but they all had one thing in common; they all longed for freedom.…
The primary topic of chapter one in “A People’s History Of The United States” by Howard Zinn is the viewpoint of history through the eyes of the Indians during the time of the discovery of the Americas. He also goes on to say how in history many cruel and unjust things are left out or briefly told and immediately covered up. Many people view Columbus as a hero when they think of him. He did amazing things, he sailed the unknown and discovered new lands. But what most people don’t know is what happened to the people already living on these lands when he and other explorers showed up.…
Artist John Trumbull (1756-1843) of Lebanon, Connecticut painted the Declaration of Independence, which was hung in 1826. The painting is of a moment on June 28, 1776 when the first draft of the Declaration was presented to the Second Continental Congress, less than a week before the document was officially adopted (Architect of the Capitol website). The elegance of the room, the importance of the event, and the displayed captured British flags seemingly portray a moment of triumphant victory and success. I believe Trumbull was successful in portraying this in his effort to capture a legendary moment in American history. Part of…
Between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, a countless number of European explorers navigated the globe in search of new lands and new treasures. The era, known as The Age of Discovery, gave fame to some of history’s greatest seafarers—Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and John Cabot to name but a few. Of all the great explorers, though, none are as celebrated as Christopher Columbus—the man who “discovered” America.…
This building once the seat of Parliament is now one of the second most-visited tourist attractions in Germany and was built in 1871. To get this project approved, Christo and Jeanne-Claude had to gain the Parliament 's approval. In order to do this, they personally went from office to office, and they wrote many letters to each of the 662 members. On February 25, 1995 the Parliament held a debate and after 70 minutes the project was approved. This was a huge project with 600,000 feet of polypropylene fabric that had to be fireproof and nine miles of rope used. It took seven days to wrap the building and was finished on June 24th. Over five million visitors saw this…
The second resource that I found was from a book called Native American Culture: Arts and Crafts by Liz Sonneborn. The book specified the different styles of art that Native Americans made from all over the United States. The book explains how the Native Americans used art in a way to portray their worship of nature. Art was used by tribes as a way to state what tribe or family was more powerful through their art being given away during potlatches and winter ceremonies.…
AMERICAN ART PROJECT Sharon Moore HIUS 221-B42 FEBUARUY 24, 2014 BAPTISM OF POCAHONTAS JOHN GADSBY CHAPMAN ARTIST The Baptism of Pocahontas is oil on canvas painting that was painted by John Gadsby Chapman .The painting was commissioned in 1837 and was delivered to the U.S. Capital and hung in Rotunda in November of 1840. John Gadsby Chapman is trying to portray a defining event in Pocahontas’s life which was her entry into the Christian faith. The feelings John Gadsby Chapman was trying to evoke through his painting was that during this time some Americans believed that the Indians should accept Christianity and conform to American customs.…
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Using the ‘Exploring the Americas’ exhibit discuss both the ways in which the colonization of the Americas were depicted and the reasons for such depictions.…
In this brief introduction, the image of Native Americans can perhaps be overly simplified that all Europeans treated them bad. That is not the case because many native people were friendly and wanted to share with their newfound friends. Somehow, the circumstances began to go wrong for some Europeans and natives. This essay will discuss three main points about the depiction of the natives and their relationship with the Europeans. A. Christopher Columbus story of dealings with the Native people in Hispaniola. B. Even Bradford discusses his first contact and the Indian’s aloofness. C. Additionally, the difference in the illustration of Native Americans compared to Columbus and Bradford.…
I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and after seeing all the paintings, sculptures, and art works, I chose Kouros, for my final paper, because it shows Greek's first nude youth male during Archaic period on ca. 600 BCE. My piece of art is Marble statue of Kouros (male youth) which is characteristically depicted nude with the left leg striding forward and hands clenched at the side. This noble figure of a youth is one of the earliest freestanding marble statues from Archaic Greek, Attic. This statue was made with Naxian marble in ca. 590–580 b.c.…
85 years ago, Iowa State university established the first college-wide art committee. The traditional public art program began during The Great Depression in the 1930s, when Iowa States College’s President Hughes envisioned that “the arts would enrich and provide substantial intellectual exploration into our college curricula” (Allen). President Hughes seized the opportunity presented by the Great Depression to commission original works of art through federally sponsored programs. The Public Works of Art Program (PWAP) provided Hughes with the unprecedented resources. He appointed a mural to be designed Grant Wood and it was called When Tillage Begins, the Other Arts Will Follow. And thus began “the era of the soon-to-be-beautiful campus” (Pohman).…
I found it very interesting learning about the art history of Native Americans because I was only the political history in my history classes. It is interesting to learn about their art work and seeing the stereotypes that Westerns had. I am guilty of having these stereotypes until this unit. It still baffles me that individuals would out Native Americans on display in museums. I just find that incredibly disrespectful. I already thought the way Native Americans were treated during the colonization was horrendous, but I was not even aware of these displays happening, and it angers…
John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia…