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The Lighter Side Of Figurative Art
814 wordsSome works might make viewers laugh out loud; others may provoke a smile while still others will probably induce no more than an un exhibited amusement, (SJMA The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, 1). Susan Landauer says this in regards to the latest exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art. The show offers a wide range of pieces from the technically proficient to the texturally interesting; all had a lighthearted quality. I found Joe Bot by Clayton Bailey and Untitled by Joan Brown to be two pa...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti Sistine Ceiling
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Century B C Gods And Goddesses
1,467 wordsGreek art is a very important in the upper paleolithic period. Art objects and artifacts are important sources of information about civilization prior to written history. The number of artworks lost because of their impermanence can only be imagined, since many were created by using organic materials subject to destruction by fire, flood, and decay. By comparison, objects made from metal or stone are more likely to survive The Aegean basin was a center of artistic activity from early times see A...
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Works Of Art Political And Religious
1,142 words... ion of each was supposed to represent. Was it the past, present and future? Who was this man and whom is he supposed to represent? His features appeared to be of a black man. Is he representative of a passenger, who looks around him as he waits or leaves the station? Is this sculpture someone who I would see as I waited, as another face in the crowd? These were some of the questions the group I had collected along my way asked one another. The representation of the community within the sculp...
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Michelangelo Artwork Consisted Pope Julius Ii
1,599 wordsMichelangelo was an optimist in his artwork and his sculptures. Michelangelo's artwork consisted of paintings that showed humanity in its natural state. Michelangelo's showed optimism in every figure he sculpted. Michelangelo's sculpture brought out his true feelings of the world and how he viewed it. Michelangelo was optimistic in completing The Tomb of Pope Julius II and persevered it through its many revisions trying to complete his vision. Sculpting was Michelangelo's main goal and the love ...
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Pure Land Buddhist Temple
1,850 words... ines still retain their original simplicity, while Buddhist temples show marked traces of having been simplified in many respects. Simplicity is the keynote of Japanese dwelling houses (Harada). In this way, Japanese architecture moved away from its Chinese influence to help form its own culture. Around the 9 th century, Japanese Buddhism moved towards more democratic and inclusive forms, of which the most important was Pure Land Buddhism. Pure Land or Amida Buddhism was oriented around the ...
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Reason For Living Salvador Dali
1,201 wordsGenius or madman? Salvador Dali has been referred to as both throughout the course of his seventy-eight-year career. One who has seen any of his artwork will uncertainly question the sanity of Salvador Dali. Dali is best known for his surrealist works and many consider him the most brilliant Surrealist of his time. But to understand the enigma that is Salvador Dali, one must take a look back into his childhood, his family, and his inspirations. Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain to father...
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Changed The World Nt Nly
1,895 wordsIt is undoubtedly a golden age, the humanist Marsili Fiction with five hundred years ag abut Renaissance, which has reserved t the light the liberal arts that had also been destroyed: grammar, petry, el quence, painting, sculpture, architecture, music (Mee Jr. , 5). The 14 th, 15 th, and 16 th centuries in Europe were the time f unprecedented changes. In abut 1450 s, European scholars became mre interested in studying the world and them, their art became mre true t life, and they began t explore...
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Marilyn Monroe American Artist
1,594 words... art. It was called the Feminist Art Movement, a poignant path that would lead females to rediscover self-consciousness and voice through the expressions of art. Among those women was Audrey Flack, an artist dedicated in asserting the goddess in every woman. Using photorealistic paintings and mythological sculptures in her artwork, Audrey Flack restores the power of both femininity and feminism. Audrey Flack was born in 1931 in New York City, and as far back as she can remember, she had alway...
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20 Th Century Picasso And Braque
1,858 wordsPicasso and Cubism Pablo Picasso was considered the greatest artist of the 20 th century because of his unique styles and techniques. Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881 to a professor of art named Jose Ruiz Blanco and his wife Maria Picasso Lopez. Because of his fathers occupation, Picasso's talent was quickly noticed and appreciated. Don Jose, an art teacher, moved Picasso and his family to La Coruna and then to Barcelona were he was Picasso's instructor at the f...
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Museum Of Natural History Chinese Culture
1,883 wordsThe American Museum Of Natural History: Anthropology The American Museum Of Natural History: Anthropology The American Museum of Natural History: Anthropology The American Museum of Natural History has many exhibits that demonstrate many aspects of anthropology. The Museum is located on Central Park West between W 81 st and W 77 nd streets. The museum is an excellent place to open oneself to many new ideas and cultures. When looking through the museum the exhibits that are anthropological could ...
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Pope Julius Ii Portrayed Both Optimism
1,657 wordsMichelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork. Michelangelo? s artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in it? s natural state. Michelangelo? s poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even though he was complementing him. Michelangelo? s sculpture brought out his optimism. Michelangelo was optimistic in completing The Tomb of Pope Julius II and persevered through it? s many revisions trying to complete his vision. Sculpture was Mich...
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Pope Julius Ii Portrayed Both Optimism
1,656 wordsMichelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork. Michelangelo? s artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in it? s natural state. Michelangelo? s poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even though he was complementing him. Michelangelo? s sculpture brought out his optimism. Michelangelo was optimistic in completing The Tomb of Pope Julius II and persevered through it? s many revisions trying to complete his vision. Sculpture was Mich...
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Sistine Ceiling Sistine Chapel
1,841 wordsThe Italian Michelangelo Buonarotti, almost certainly the most famous artist produced by Western civilization and arguably the greatest, is universally viewed as the supreme Renaissance artist (see Renaissance art and architecture). He created monumental works of painting, sculpture, and architecture and left an additional legacy of numerous letters and poems. Through this vast and multifaceted body of artistic achievement, Michelangelo made an indelible imprint on the Western imagination. A mem...
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Ways Of Thinking Michelangelo Buonarroti
1,418 wordsMichelangelo and Renaissance Religion Michelangelo Buonarroti lived in a time when the medieval aspects of Christianity were overwhelmed by the upheaval of the Reformation. His art portrays this change in religious philosophy by discerning the major trends and objectives of the Renaissance. His works show use changing world around him (Richmond 4). In addition, Michelangelo seriously impacted generations of artists to come. The Renaissance was a rebirth that led to new ways of thinking in the sc...
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Leonardo Da Vinci York Harry N
998 wordsThroughout history many art movements have emerged that artists and styles are classified under. One large contributing movement over the time period from about 1450 to about 1600 was known as the Italian Renaissance. However, what a large portion of people do not realize is that the Italian Renaissance was actually two main movements during that period of time. Each movement had key artists and a variation in style from the other movements. These two movements in the Italian Renaissance have be...
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Michelangelo Palazzo Vecchio
1,826 wordsDuring the dates 1475 - 1564 there were many famous painters working all around the world. One of which was Michelangelo. He painted and sculpted many famous items that are still talked about today. Michelangelo led a very buy life, as of which you will be reading about today. Michelangelo was born in 1475 in a small village of Caprese near Arezzo At the age of 13 michelangelo? s father Ludovico Buonarroti placed michelangelo in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio through connection...
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One Lives Line 12
631 wordsOzymandias to express to us that possessions do not mean immortality. He used very strong imagery and irony to get his point across throughout the poem. In drawing these vivid and ironic pictures in our minds, Shelley was trying to explain that no one lives forever, and nor do their possessions. Shelley expresses this poems moral through a vivid and ironic picture. A shattered stone statue with only the legs and head remaining, standing in the desert, the face is proud and arrogant, Half sunk, a...
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Made Out Of Wood Inches Tall
1,816 wordsPolykleitos Bearer and Laocoon and His Sons Polykleitos is a Roman statue. It is made out of marble and it is 6 feet 6 inches tall. The statue is of a male who looks to be athletic someone who works out. The statue is standing in a contrapuntal position; it has its left leg slightly bent witch causes his foot not to be flat on the platform under him. That position helps the statue stay balance. It is not rigid. The statue has no facial expression. It is serious. It eyes are deep and expressionle...
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Resonant Objects Saint Denis Sound
558 wordsThe first show I read about was SOUND SCULPTURE WITH RESONATORS, preserving in New York and training o city such as, Toronto, Sydney and Melbourne, from 1972 to 1978 This was an ongoing series of small installations made in alternative spaces and small galleries. It came out of a fascination with the idea that the world is musical at any given moment, if one has a musical point of view. Large resonant objects, such as bell jars and large wine-making bottles were particularly interesting in their...
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