When I was younger my parents took me to Italy, at the time I was only eight years old, therefore, I did not care much about art, or the museums we visited. To be fair I was very young. To this day I still remember…
Sculpture Essay Examples and Topics
To many the creation of a piece of art lies in the hands and ideas of the artist. Michelangelo’s David is a perfect example of a mesh between the mind of a genius artist and the ideals and theology of the time. Michelangelo contribution to the…
My Journey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Experience
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Days before my trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art I did a little research about the place. And to my surprise, the Met is the biggest art museum in the United States. And when I tell you they were not lying. I can not…
Ayesha Sultana and Subdoh Gupta both find inspiration from man made metallic objects to creat their artworks. Although the way they artworks greatly differ both aesthetically and symbolically they both use metallic objects to inform people. This is a fundamental example of an artistic experience…
Found in the temples of ancient Hindu worshipers, Vishnu as Varaha helps give current viewers a small glimpse into the tales/stories of Hinduism in its authentic form. Now found in the Dallas Museum of Art, the relic while plain at first sight, contains tremendous amounts…
French sculptor, Auguste Rodin, known for his sumptuous bronze and marble figures, considered by some critics to be the greatest portraitist in the history of sculpture, created one of the most world famous bronze statues to exist, Le Penseur or the Thinker. The 6-foot, 1.8-metre…
The Pieta is a renaissance Sculpture made between the years 1498 and 1499 by the legendary artist, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or most commonly known as “Michelangelo”. The Sculpture is located in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. The Statue was commissioned by a…
The elusiveness of the statue is what makes it so powerful: Donatello’s interest in the things of this world, in the body more so than in the larger biblical narrative Donatello’s David is the earliest of the three I am comparing. Donatello actually made two…
Three Examples of Roman Art: Augustus of Primaporta, the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, and Trajan's Column
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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…
Art as Means of Propaganda Early On: the Bust of Nefertiti and Prima Porta Augustus
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Roman Essay “The Bust of Queen Nefertiti is dated 1340 BCE and was created by the court sculptor Thutmosis, it shows Nefertiti from the shoulders up wearing her Blue Crown(Elusiv.com).” It is made out of limestone and stucco, the height measuring up to 19 inches….