Essays on Sculpture

Introduction Roman art is a vast art form that bridges over Europe, Africa, and Asia. It dates back to almost 1,000 years and contains a huge spectrum of media (Ambler 2015). Such media included paintings, mosaics, bronze work, marble, and terracottas. Around the city of…

This bronze sculpture is the head of Poseidon, Greek god over the sea. The internationally recognized sculpture was created during the Hellenistic period (300-30 BC). The date this specific sculpture is said to be around 227-221 BC according to the museum of fine arts in…

A Jack of All Trades The saying usually goes, a jack of all trades, but a master of none – although when it comes to Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti he was not only a jack of all trades, but a master of each and everyone….

Rachel Whiteread is an artist who makes sculptures and uses plaster, concrete, resin, rubber, and other industrial materials to create an interior mold of everyday objects. She has done intimate, monumental pieces and anything in between. Whiteread was born in East London and studied sculptures…

In recent years, there have been many discussions between people, requesting for the removal, relocation, or replacement of monuments which represent confederate officials from the civil war. This has lead to a wide number of offensive and racist comments made by people using social media….

When you think of a high status art museum, what do you think of? I’ll go ahead and take a guess that your first guess was probably not a urinal. Well that’s exactly what Marcel Duchamp did on April 9th, 1917, with his sculpture “The…

Seated woman, 1999, by Ron Mueck is a sculpture of an old lady who is seated clasping her hands in front of her. She is slightly hunched and her face looks lonely and sad. She has wrinkles on her face which explain that she is…

Patricia Piccinini is an Australian artist responsible for fascinatingly hyper-realistic works. Patricia was born in 1965 in Sierra Leone, West Africa where she spent her early years of life. She was raised in Australia and Italy (QAGOMA. 2018. Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection Student Resource) where…

Magdalena Abakanowicz was a Polish artist who was born on June 20th, 1930. She was one of Poland’s most iconic sphere sculpture creators and specialized using three-dimensional textiles beginning in the 1970s. Although she has passed away on April 20th of 2017, she was very…

ESSAY #3: Compare and contrast the way the human body/“the figure” is treated in both ancient Egyptian and Greek art. The human body is treated both similarly and differently in ancient Egypt and Greece. The Greeks style of sculpting is influenced heavily by the Egyptians,…