The sculpture is located at the FIU Frost Art Museum. The medium used by the artist to create this sculpture was a ceramic tile. The mass of the sculpture is small. The artist created a sculpture in high relief which he then painted and covered in gloss making the visual texture of the sculpture smooth. Some of the formal elements used by the artist were intense hues of blue as the background for the sky . The Airman himself which is the focal point of the sculpture is painted in light shades of beige and intense whites as well as the four airplanes flying above him. The sculpture is not symmetrical the Airman covers most of the sculpture giving the illusion that the airplanes are flying high above him in the sky. This was done using the linear…
Swallow thought about the circumstance that the sculpture was in, someone putting down his fishing utensils and throwing the basket of fish on the table and it spilling on to the cloth, ready to be sliced up by the cook. This is important as it shows the realistic organization that swallow has created using carved objects. The signs used are the unclean bench, fish scattered all over the…
Cited: Li, Xiuzhen Janice. Advancements in Bronze - Weapons of the Qin Empire. May 4, 2009. http://heritage-key.com/china/advancements-bronze-weapons-qin-empire (accessed September 24, 2010).…
Engraved, chased, and etched, the interlacing Celtic-like scrolls and knots wrap delicately and symmetrically around the vessel. Serpentine handles flank the widest and uppermost portion of the vase while twin stylized bird head figures frame the rim. In the center of the vase sits a stylized Viking-like mask or helmet. Symmetrically placed gemstones adorn the vase from the rim to the foot, while contrasting matte lavender, light green, and golden yellow enamels sit just behind the gleaming silver scroll patterns and echo the colors of the gemstones.…
• Hamilton’s system favored merchants from the northeast so the south began to question why they are paying taxes…
The desire for the finer things in life is eternal, and the strive for beauty and elegance can be seen in all ages. In regards to Islamic pottery, the elaborate and decorative nature of pieces from Kashan cannot be beaten. Now I will analyze a specific production from Kashan, a lustre bowl produced during the Seljuq Period (11th to 13th centuries), labeled as “Object D-12” in the UCSB Jewel Room and depicted below: In this image one can see the same line of eyebrows, drawn out eyes, and thin lips on the center figure that can also be seen on the polo player of Object D-12. Both men also have a halo surrounding them, enshrining them with a sense of importance and holiness. In this piece, dated at the early 13th century, the center figure appears…
From Rite To Ritual is a painting by Danie Mellor created in 2009. This painting features various Australian native animals jumping and climbing all over the canvas. Those animals are the only features of the artwork in natural colours. The rest of the painting uses primarily blue and white for the curtains and floor and furniture. In the middle of the painting, there are four children seen dancing and playing together. This scene of aboriginal people and indigenous animals placed in a building that is clearly western illustrates the uneasy coexistence of the cultures. The scene depicts an almost forced interaction between the two cultures. The contrast of the traditions attracts the audiences attention and makes them…
The pottery decoration on pitchers in the King Midas exhibit is related to exchange. In the 8th and 7th centuries B.C.E., Greeks imported objects from Syria, Phoenicia, and Phrygia and incorporated Near Eastern styles into their ceramics. A pitcher from the Mediterranean and a jug from Turkey were presented together in order to show similarities. Both objects had similar colors, patterns, and animals, such as sphinxes, griffins, and lions. The pitchers themselves are artifacts since they have a…
The Shang Dynasty (1766-1122 BC) is the first documented era of ancient China. The highly developed hierarchy consisted of a king, nobles, commoners, and slaves. The capital city was Anyang, in north Henan Province. Some scholars have suggested that travelers from Mesopotamia and from Southeast Asia brought agricultural methods to China, which stimulated the growth of ancient Chinese civilization. The Shang peoples were known for their use of jade, bronze, horse-drawn chariots, ancestor worship, and highly organized…
The people of the Shang dynasty developed bronze and were the first in China to write. The Zhou dynasty ruled from 1054 BC to 256 BC, making it the longest ruling dynasty. During this period, the beginning of two important philosophies, Confucianism and Daoism, were introduced. China used to be divided into small states, sometimes allied, sometimes at war. But in 221 BC, the Qin dynasty conquered all states and united them as one.…
I also found it unusual on the Dionysus Cup that the boat is made out of a large fish.…
In a tiny house surrounded by a forest of fig trees in Rende, Cosenza, Calabria, my great great grandmother taught her little granddaughter how to make “Nonna’s Wine Taralli.” That little girl would eventually become my grandmother and she would also teach me the art of wine taralli-making. Two cups of my grandfather’s homemade white wine, fourteen ounces of canola oil and sugar, two teaspoons of baking powder, an envelope of “Lievito Bartolino,” three and a half pounds of flour and “un po’ di aranzi,” as my Italian grandmother says, which are the licorice-flavoured seeds of the anise. These ingredients combine to make “Nonna’s Wine Taralli” – a cookie-textured, ring shaped and slightly sweetened version of the traditional Italian taralli, whose recipe has been passed on for generations by the women in my southern-Italian family. Come fall and spring, a grandmother makes an abundance of wine taralli in the presence of daughters and granddaughters who watch intently and help accordingly. According to Searle’s Taxonomy, the making of “Nonna’s Wine Taralli” is regarded as ritualistic behavior as it is collective, formal, performance and formative, strengthens existing social statuses and relationships, and exudes ultimate goals.…
Chalice Wine Group is a publicly traded company that, through numerous partnerships, owns and/or operates a number of vineyards and wine manufacturing companies in California’s Sonoma valley. Previously, they enjoyed a time of profitability. Yet in recent years, expansion has saw a decrease in their level of profitability, followed by a repeating period of net income losses. The goal of the case is to determine whether the operation of a small winery can be a profitable venture.…
Most important artifacts of Shang Dynasty because the writing on the bones told scholars about them…
The Golden Age which dates between 480 to 323 B.C.E.; although all ancient Greek and Roman art is broadly know as classical, the art during these decades was considered to be the finest of the finest. Take for example “Warrior A” a bronze statue with bone and glass eyes, silver teeth, and copper lips and nipples. You see the Greek concern with lifelike representation flowered fully in statues. This virile male body, its anatomy distilled from observing hundreds of athletic physiques. The pose the Greeks invented it express the potential for motion inherent in a standing human was vigilant contrapposto. The reason Bronze was the most favored material for freestanding sculptors in ancient Greece yet few examples survive because the material was too valuable most of the time the sculptors were melted down most likely to…