The historic and iconic marble sculpture‚ Aphrodite of Knidos‚ sometimes referred to as Aphrodite of Cindus‚ was created by the sculptor Praxiteles. Not much is known about Praxiteles for sure as the only definite dates in relation to him are found at the base of a portrait statue where he inscribed “Praxiteles the Athenian made it” or are written by Pliny the Elder in his monumental work‚ Naturalis Historia (Encyclopedia of World Biography). This work places him during the 104th Olympiad‚ or roughly
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Contents Introduction 2 History of Junk Art Sculpture 4 Chapter 1: Junk sculptors 8 Chapter 2: Interview 1 16 Chapter 3: Interview 2 23 Summary 27 Introduction From 5000 B.C to well into the 20th century A.D‚ most sculpture has reflected the wealth‚ religion or political stature of the country. Early Egyptian sculpture reflected the political regime of the land‚ and powerful ‘Pharaohs’ demanded monumental sized tombs and artefacts to show their wealth and status
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heavy period of transition through the 20th century. At the start‚ sculpture could be summed up in Johann Gottfreid von Herder’s consideration of sculpture as “a harsh reality.” Unlike painting and the other traditional media‚ sculpture was being redefined‚ both formally and technically. Painting‚ despite the many innovations and explorations that occurred in the 20th century‚ was still oil and pigment put on a flat surface. But sculpture‚ rather 3 dimensional arts‚ became so much more dynamic and expansive
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take daring ideas and turn them into images that were seductive in elegance and form. One of Canova’s sculptures stayed true to his neoclassical approach. His sculpture titled Psyche revived by Cupid’s Kiss (1802)‚ which is a great example of how he stayed true to the neoclassicism. What this sculptures purpose is to depict the love story of Psyche and Cupid. What is going to be done using the sculpture as an example‚ both a formal and contextual analysis. Formal analysis focuses on what elements
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that my voice is heard regarding the the new sculpture being placed in our city. With the implementation of the new sculpture‚ we‚ as a city are digging ourselves into an economic hole. One example of this is the Picasso sculpture in Chicago. With all that money spent very few civilians were in favor of the painting. Given the size of the population of our city in comparison to that of Chicago‚ even the slightest number of people in favor this sculpture in our city will not compensate for the money
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visual elements of the Picasso are the curved lines and diagonal angles of the sculpture; the straight
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and painting. Transplantation technique is the technique Michelangelo has used on many of his sculptures‚ that means he was taking a variety of different body parts and forming one man. It often was noticed because one couldn’t identify the age of the man in the sculpture because the face or body was a different age wise. “David” is a complete masterpiece created between 1501 and 1504. In the sculpture “David‚” his age is very unclear; he has a mature face‚ an old hand‚ and a torso of a young man
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This piece is called Warrior with Shield by Henry Moore‚ from the mid-twentieth century (1954). This sculpture is composed of form because it is three-dimensional which‚ has height‚width and depth. This form has geometric shapes; the shield that the men is holding is a thin spherical shape with a pointy middle and the head of the man is an oval spherical shape. A strong sense of form has been created by increasing the contrast between highlights and shadow areas. For example the pointy part of
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The Controversial Installation There are several meanings for the term‚ "art". Art comes in many different forms‚ like paintings‚ sculptures‚ poetry‚ film‚ etcetera. It serves as a vessel for storytelling and projects the relationship between man and its surroundings by utilizing their vision and creativity. Unfortunately‚ society at times fails to understand the meaning and rejects it. There was one particular installation that surprisingly caused controversy. The piece was called the‚ "Tilted
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descriptive and visual in your writing. A comparison of the installation/sculpture of Donald Lipski and the monumental-scale steel sculpture of Mark di Suvero reveals that both artists utilized the visual elements of color and a variance of space. Lipski used colorful‚ everyday objects and materials that are found at a construction site or furniture in an office and installed them‚ in a grouping of varying circles as a sculpture on a 60’ atrium wall of the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building. Artist
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