Essays on Sculpture

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….

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It’s interesting that Dale Chihuly got a Master degree on glass blowing. I didn’t even know that glass blowing could be studied and that you could get a college degree on it. It is also amazing how many forms glass can take; it looks so…