Sculpture Essay Examples

Kinetic art: the art of motion. Kinetic art contains a/or several moving parts and depends on motion for its effect. The motion of the art work can be provided in virtually any way. It can be powered by natures elements; wind, wave power from water, or heat from a fire; It can also be powered […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

The major difference between the three David’s is obviously the periods in which they were carved. Michelangelo’s was during the Renaissance, Bernini’s is Baroque, and Donatello carved his David during the Gothic period. Michelangelo’s David is very large in size, over fourteen feet tall. This makes him seem to loom over his admirers, and makes […]

All art, whether it be sculptural, painting, drawing, photography, architectural, musical or literary, is made with intention. The artist themselves create their art with the intent purpose to evoke particular responses within their audiences. However, the idea that the artist’s intention automatically overrules and invalidates the viewer’s personal response is a topic that receives much […]

This sculpture was one of Mene’s most famous pieces of art work. This sculpture was first put out for viewers to see in the Paris Salon in 1952. The public went nuts over this sculpture, later this sculpture was made in three different sizes. The sculpture in my presentation is the smallest one made and […]

The two art works that Prn going to be talking about are Statue of Venus (the Mazarin Venus), and Gravestone with a Woman and Her Attendant. The Statue of Venus is from the Roman culture, it’s located in the room called The Art of the Trojan War. It’s located in the center of the room […]

Andy Goldsworthy, (born 1956) is a remarkable environmental sculptor (working in the landscape today) in which his uses of natural surroundings create an art form. He explores and experiments with various organic substances such as twigs, leaves, stones snow and ice, as well as artificial paints, cuttings and holes. He then photographs each sculpture right […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

David was destined to be the 2nd male monarch of Israel. destroyed the Philistine elephantine Goliath with rock and a sling Donatello, Verrocchio. Michelangelo. and Bernini each designed a sculpture of David. However, the sculptures are drastically different from one another. Each one is alone in its ain certain manner. Donatello, whose David was the […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

The age of Enlightenment is characterized by the emergence of a value system that is based on reason, and it was a reaction against what was judged to be Church dogma.