Prehistoric art gives us a clue and understanding about early human life and culture. The development of writing system and advanced civilization gave rise to the development of more defined and real form of art. "Egyptian artist mostly followed a set of fairly strict convention based on conceptual principles rather than on the observation of the natural world" (Stokstad and Cothren 51). Two such sculptures embodying these prehistoric and ancient Egyptian eras, in a different but similar ways, are the sculpture of Woman from Willendorf and Sculpture of Khafre. The sculpture of Woman from Willendorf found about 24,000 BCE in modern day Austria (Stokstad and Cothren 6). The Sculpture of Khafre found about 2520-2494 BCE at Valley temple of Khafre, now displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (Stokstad and Cothren 59). The Venus of Willendorf is a naked figure with 11 cm in height, whereas Khafre is clothed seated figure with 168 cm in height. They both are human sculptures made up with stones yet posses different style of work. The Venus of Willendorf is carved from limestone and it is red in color, while the sculpture of Khafre is made of anorthosite gneiss, which is valuable, extremely hard and dark color imported stone from Nubia (Stokstad & Cothren 58). The sculpture of Khafre shows importance and power of a king considering the highest quality of stone used (Davis, Art History).
The statue of Venus exhibits its female characteristics like pendulous breast, round belly with a deep navel, wide hips and buttocks with tiny legs. These characteristics are mainly associated with fertility and childbearing. The statue has no face but has stylish carved head. The statue of Khafre represents a man wearing royal traditional attire that includes a short pleated kilt, and a royal linen head scarf. It has distinct masculine features that includes exhibition of upper body strength, masculine features, and also has a small beard as a symbol of royalty.
When people enter to New York they will see the gigantic Statue of Liberty. ... The Statue of Liberty enchants to so many visitors. ... This statue is famous worldwide and well known. ... The statue was made with copper. ... It is one of the enormous and beautiful work of art I have ever seen. ...
For the assignment given for the trip to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, I chose five works of art to study closely. I picked one work of art from each of five stylistic periods. ... The work of art I chose from the Greek and Roman Art section of the museum was the statue of Kouros. ... From the Islamic Art section of the museum, I picked a work of art just known as the Figure. ... The Figure is an extremely abstract work from Islamic Art. ...
Art is one of my favorite subjects. ... I did get to visit various sites in Seattle that are well known for their public art. ... There is a big statue of Vladimir Lenin created by Emil Venkov. The story of how this statue ended up in Seattle is interesting. ... Now this is an art gallery worth taking the 12 hr. drive for. ...
For my museum report I decided to do mine on a Kouros found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A Kouros is a Greek statue of a young male. ... The rigid stance with the left leg forward and the marks at the side, was derived form Egyptian art. ... The statue marked the grave of a young Athenian aristocrat. ... They would cut away all of the stone away from the body and introduced variations in the look of a figure from statue to statue. ...
If we take for example, Temples in Japan, they might have statues of the founder of Buddhism formerly know as Siddhartha. ... The art of Buddha is a symbol of hope to those who practice Buddha, a source of encouragement to forge on through their daily lives. ... The statues and paintings of Buddha act as a symbol of hope to them. ... Moving further west, we look at Roman art. ... Paintings by such artist as Leonardo Da Vinci renowned for art such as the Mona Lisa and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn who painted a self-portrait of himself have become icons in the world of art. ...
The Statues of David caught my interest from the beginning of Art Appreciation, even though we didn't study them until later in the semester. ... The four sculptors had completely different objectives to their own statues. ... Donatello's earliest work of which there is certain knowledge, a marble statue of David, shows an artistic debt to Ghiberti, who was then the leading Florentine exponent of International Gothic, a style of graceful, softly curved lines strongly influenced by northern European art. ... As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influe...
History of Art Essay Statue from the Ptolemaic Dynasty The Statue of a Queen which was made during the Ptolemaic Dynasty is a fine piece of art. ... That wasn't unusual for a statue to have this frontality during that time since you were meant to see this art object only from one angle; the front. ... The Statue of a Queen is indeed a great statue to look at and observe. ... In the case of the Statue of a Queen we see all the characteristics of the art style of the Old Kingdom. When though we look at art form in the New Kingdom we can see the many differences....
I have chosen two statues from different eras to make a comparison, "Marble Statue of Dionysos Leaning on an Archaistic Female Figure" from the Roman era and "Bronze Statue of Artemis and a Deer" from Greek or Roman, late Hellenistic or early Imperial periods. ... Material is a great example of explaining cultural identity, because it tells how much people in the era care about their religion, art, and etc. ... Because bronze is more expensive than marble is, it is obvious that Greek's art did care more about gods and goddesses than Romans did. ... This statue also has a smaller female fi...
