Essays on Sculpture

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…

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…

Dale Chihuly is an American sculptor who works primarily in glass. He was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1941. He was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the university of Washington and in 1965, he enrolled in the first glass program at the…