Sculpture Essay Examples

The word pixcell was derived from two words; (Pixel) then (cell) .which is the fundamental building material for both digital and organic structures. A renowned sculptor Kohei Nawa of Japanese origin has worked with a unique synthetic glass substance known as Pixcell beads, from the year 2000, applying so as to express the difference between […]

The Maya were a dominating society of Mesoamerica, rich in culture, community, and art. While life may not be completely interpretable yet, much in known about how these societies were constructed, and how their religion dominated their lives. Much is generally made of their massive stonework, their ceremonial complexes, and ritual sacrifices, but their small […]

Romans were collectors and admirers of Greek art. Art from Greece was brought to Rome, copied, and also changed by the Romans. As a result, Roman art is somewhat based on Greek art. However, Roman art is not merely a continuation of Greek art. For an amateur it is difficult to determine between the two […]

David Who is David? David is the man portrayed in the Bible who is destined to become Israel’s second King. One of David’s well-known stories was the time when he killed the Philistine giant, Goliath, with a sling and a stone. Many artist during the Renaissance designed sculptures of David. These artists include Donatello, Verrocchio, […]

Sculptor, painter, architect, Michelangelo was the greatest artist during the Italian Renaissance, a period known for its creative activity (Comptons’s, 1998). Michelangelo created many of the works of art that we think of when we think of the Renaissance. In a time where art flourished only with patronage, Michelangelo was caught between the conflicting powers […]

Introduction The statue of the Egyptian scribe Haremhab was sculpted in the 13th century of the Egyptian dynasty. The artist remains unknown but it is alleged that the statue was created according to Haremhab’s orders while he was still a general and administrator in the Egyptian government. The statue shows him seated on the ground […]

The Riace Bronze made warriors are from the southern part of Italy, near Riace on the 16th of August, 1972. They are believed to have been thrown by a ship due to storm in Calabria. There were no remains left of the ship. These sculptures were produced later after the great revolution in Greek of […]

Andrew Reyes Ancient Humanities Professor The name Phidias will be remembered for the rest of time. Phidias was a sculptor born around 490 BC. Phidias is often recognized as a the most renown ancient Greek sculptors. While there are no originals of his work remaining, his reputation has been made well known through various writings. […]

Contents Introduction2 History of Junk Art Sculpture4 Chapter 1: Junk sculptors8 Introduction From 5000 B. C to well into the 20th century A. D, most sculpture has reflected the wealth, religion or political stature of the country. Early Egyptian sculpture reflected the political regime of the land, and powerful ‘Pharaohs’ demanded monumental sized tombs and […]

There is a tremendous amount of artwork from classical societies that still inspires artists and art enthusiasts today. Art can reveal an extensive amount of information regarding the culture of the society from which it was created. To analyze artwork in relation to the culture of the society, the artwork must be studied in a […]

‘What I like so much about contemporary art now is its ambiguity, its uncertainty. It is precisely this quality that engages and unsettles us’ – Benjamin Genocchio, art critic. How does this view challenge traditional ideas about art? Discuss particular works such as installations, happenings and site-specific works. Audiences make pretentious judgements on artworks due […]

Of those Seven Wonders, only one remains. (The accompanying mini-images are pure artistic guesses.) In no particular order, they were: The Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt    Also known as the pyramid of Cheops, is the largest pyramid in the world, and is given the date 2680 BC, though we know that its construction stretched over […]

There is a distinct contrast between the appreciation of art in African culture and in Western society; the Western concern with the conservation, preservation and appreciation of art within a home, museum or gallery setting, compared to the African sub-cultural concept of its relative use in everyday life. This is perhaps the primary reasons that […]

Courbet (1819-1877) is a realistic painter, in that a majority of his work is about everyday scenes, often depicting peasants and working people in rural areas. Howerver, Courbet is also an artist who challenged the traditional painting in the middle of the 19th century. Courbet introduced a new kind of realism, which focused on a […]

One of the greatest Italian Renaissance artists is Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi, who we simply know as Donatello. He was born in Florence around 1386. He was the son of a Florentine wood carder, Niccolo di Betto di Bardi. How he began his career as a sculptor is undetermined although it is known […]

My topic today is my favorite city , my favorite city. Sydney is my favorite city. It is a big city located in Australia. Some people maybe thinks that the city seems ordinary and simple. However, if we compare it with other famous cities in the world, for example, the fashionable Paris , prosperous New […]

Unit Title and Theme: Exploring Identity through Sculpture Finding meaningful links between students’ self-discovery and individual identity and the way they relate and interact with society as a whole, while building on their current knowledge of 3D art and introducing new ways to think of sculpture. Key Vocabulary:UniversalIdentity SymbolismDiversity MetaphorTolerance InterdependenceStereotypes Discussion Topics: Over-arching ideas […]

Aphrodite statues were popular in Greece during the Hellenistic period. The marble Aphrodite of Knidos was the most celebrated among the many Grecian goddesses. Besides written as the Aphrodite of Cnidus. the marble sculpture was created by an Attic sculpturer known as Praxiteles during the fourth century BC. Arguably. it is believed to be the […]

The three creative persons that we have studied. Goldsworthy. Gascoigne and Wolseley. are all modern-day environmental creative persons. They all have their ain alone pattern and all of these creative persons are concerned with the environment hence all of their plants are environmentally friendly. Their plants all challenge the viewing audiences imaginativeness and are aesthetically […]

We begin our journey with The Bateman Amphora Lysippides Painter, Greek, c. 530-520 BCE, black-figure terra cotta. Grecian creative persons used different colourss of clay to paint in the black- and red-figure technique. On this vas, we see one of the Greek ‘s most popular Gods, Dionysius, the God of vino and good times, accompanied […]

The physical features of “Testing a World View” are that it’s a sculptural installation made of five identical iron figures bent at right angles. The sculptures are made from a cast made from the artist’s body. Gormley would have started by covering himself in mudrock, creating with these bases moulds within sand and finally casting […]

Art in Renaissance Florence certainly marked a departure from the previous style that was seen during the Middle Ages, so named by Renaissance artists because they saw this period as a ‘dark age’ between the classical style they so admired and the rebirth of art that the Renaissance encouraged. New ideas based on the classical […]