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Report From Los Angels County Museum Of Art
779 wordsReport from Los Angels County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the premier visual arts museum in the Western United States. Its holdings include more than 150, 000 works spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present. Moreover, the museum has seasonal exhibitions, which focus on many different types of artists every month. The variety of artwork fascinates visitors and never bores them. I am a frequent visitor of the museum, and, this time, I was enchanted by ...
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Visiting Eleganza Body Structure Sculpture
490 wordsBefore going to Eleganza, the only sculpture that I had ever seen, besides the small statues in neighbors' yards, was in books that I had looked at. When I entered the museum I noticed the many sculptures that occupied the small space. After walking around, observing the different sculptures and listening to Dr. Roselle speak, I came to a decision that David was my favorite statue in the museum. The complexity, texture, and realistic characteristics of Michelangelo's David made this a beautiful ...
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20 Th Century African Art
1,045 wordsAfrican Art does not have specific date to which it evolved because most early African Art was carved in wood, which perished quickly. This is why most art dates from the 19 th and early 20 th century. Many 20 th century artists admired and collected pieces of African Art. They enjoyed the bold color, expression, and form that produced a new beginning in art history. African Art was mostly dedicated to life affirming activities such as healing, pleasure, protection, and transformation. The first...
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Pieces Of Metal Three Figures
481 wordsDonald Finegan's sculpture, "Symphony in Three Forms", consists of three figures of abstract twisted metal on cement bases. Fiberglass was sprayed on thin strips of bronze and then molded into the shapes they are in. The metal was twisted in abstract ways to represent the flow of music and different stages in a musical piece. The left figure has many pieces of metal twisted in about the same manner almost parallel to each other. The figure in the middle is taller than the other two figures. It's...
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Buddhist Art In Japan
2,031 wordsBuddhism had an important role in the development of Japanese art between the sixth and the sixteenth centuries. Buddhist art and religion came to Japan from China, with the arrival of a bronze Buddhist sculpture alongside the sutras. Buddhist art was encouraged by Crown Prince Taishi in the Suiko period in the sixth century and Emperor Shomu in the Nara period in the eighth century. In the early Heian period Buddhist art and architecture greatly influenced the traditional Shinto arts, and Buddh...
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Michael The Archangel Ivory Diptych
466 wordsMonumental sculpture did not exist in the Byzantine culture, but small architectural sculptures decorated the interiors of the churches. Most were either destroyed or lost during the Crusades as they were carried back to Central Europe. Small Ivory panels were also carved. The Archangel Michael is part of a diptych hinged together. The drapery and the style of the figure is an excellent example of the Classical Period of Greece combined with Christian ideas and needs. Dating from the 5 th to 6 t...
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Gothic Art And Architecture
799 wordsDuring the past week or so our group has been doing a research assignment on Gothic art and architecture. In the following paragraphs we will be discussing Gothic art and architecture, the Rayonnant Gothic period, and sculpture. From about 1140 to the end of the 16 th century religious buildings, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts and other decorative arts came to be known. Architecture was predominant in this period. At the beginning of the second half of the 12 th century, the creation...
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Geometric Shapes Ancient Greek
1,116 wordsAncient Greek art set the bar for artists around the world for thousands of years and still does today. Its sophistication peaked during the Classical Period which has been called the Golden Age of Greek art. The idea of being able to make the world and people around oneself seem flawless was captured through their art. From the usage of geometric shapes to the idea of symmetry helped to give way to the idea of equilibrium, a balance, to which the Greeks held as one idea of perfection. Many scul...
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Hellenistic Period Classical Period
955 wordsGreek art has gone through many stages through out the course of its history. Over the years, the Greeks strived to perfect the faces, bodies as well as the human form in their sculptures. They experimented with many types of techniques. Archaic Period was the beginning of the advancement into a more realistic depiction of the human form for the Greeks. The Early Classical Period is a time where sculptors are trying to depict the human body in the most realistic fashion as possible. In the Early...
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William Blake Todays Society
1,205 wordsThe Value of Art Introduction: Art is a relevance of artists creation that reflects the ideas, experiences and main characteristic, which has enthusiastic worth. Art has been recognized before language is written. Devoted artists create art, which leaves an emotional impact on society. The art changes as human society advanced into steadier commune. In other ways, art is observed as the entryway to the skill of civilization. Art is the monopoly of humans because none of other living things on th...
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David Fifteenth Century
1,894 wordsDonatello? s Bronze David Thesis: Donatello was one of the most important fifteenth century masters whose bronze David is an enigma that is unlike Donatello? s other works in its different style, and unknown time of origin. Donatello was a gifted sculptor who lived in the fifteenth century and had a great impact on not only the Italian Renaissance, but also on the future of art in general. He was an innovator in his time and his sphere of influence enveloped all those around him. Donatello was o...
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Mind And Body Golden Age
517 wordsGolden Age Greek Criticism Of Henry Moore? Golden Age Greek Criticism Of Henry Moore? S Reclining Woman Golden Age Greek Criticism of Henry Moore? s Reclining Woman Both the shape and body of the Reclining Woman sculpture totally tear down our standards as Golden Age Greeks. Not at all can I make out whom this sculptor is representing. Sure I can make out the basic female figure. However the head is way too small in proportion the rest of the body. Maybe Henry Moore has not yet finished this pie...
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Lorenzo De Medici Palazzo Vecchio
1,985 wordsLife of Michelangelo Michelangelo (1475 - 1564), arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. A Florentine although born March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese near Arezzo Michelangelo continued to have a deep attachment to his city, its art, an...
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Holy Trinity Ancient Roman
1,397 wordsMichelangelo s Tomb of Giuliano de Medici One of the most famous artists ever known since the 16 th century is a man by the name of Michelangelo Buonarroti. He has composed art that is both breathtaking and unmatched in such skills as painting, sculpture, architecture and poetry. Some of his most famous works of sculpture that he composed are standing in the Medici Chapel in Florence, Italy even today. I would like to speak of a particular piece contained in the Chapel entitled Tomb of Giuliano ...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti Sistine Ceiling
1,958 wordsThe Italian Michelangelo Buonarroti, 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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Art New York City 20 Th Century
4,799 words[ ] Print Modernism. IntroductioPrint sectioModern Art, painting, sculpture, and other forms of 20 th-century art. Although scholars disagree as to precisely when the modern period began, they mostly use the term modern art to refer to art of the 20 th century in Europe and the Americas, as well as in other regions under Western influence. The modern period has been a particularly innovative one. Among the 20 th century's most important contributions to the history of art are the invention of ab...
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King Words Quot
657 words" Ozymandias" 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 poem? s 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 arrogan...
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Avant Gar Dists Expressionist Painters Franz Kline Voulkos
3,066 wordsThe exhibition of recent stoneware vessels by Peter Voulkos at Frank Lloyd Gallery featured the sort of work on which the artist established reputation in the 1950 s. The work was greeted with stunned amazement. However now it is too, but its amazement of a different order the kind that comes from being in the presence of effortless artistic mastery. These astonishing vessels are truly amazing. Every ceramic artist knows that what goes into a kiln looks very different from what comes out, and al...
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Four Noble Truths Siddhartha Gautama
3,743 words? Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future; it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. ? Albert Einstein (Buddhism) Buddhism has affected many people. From the Buddha? s first followers to my next door neighbor, people everywhere have followed the teachings of B...
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Gods And Goddesses One Hand
1,372 wordsIndian Standing Mahadeva Standing Mahadeva Indian art is based on gods and goddesses of India. The only proof of the existence of the god is the sculptures, which have been carved by the people for thousands of the years. These sculptures tell us the story of the gods and goddesses. The stones are the storytellers, which are now found in temples, caves, monuments, and museums. The Cleveland museum of art includes a remarkable image of standing Mahadeva. It represents Shiva, one of the great Hind...
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