An Analysis Of Ed Hamilton's Sculptures

The artist that I decided to research was Lee S. Ivey. She was great at making sculptures. She did oil painting and drawings as well. Her paintings were amazing. However, I’m more fascinated with her sculptures because they’re so different and they tell a story. She even have a piece called “Deaf President Now”, which is currently on display at Gallaudet University. Pieces like this really shows how she was part of the Deaf community, and how she saw the talent and aspirations of the community. I like the mysteriousness of her art and how it causes you to wonder what emotions she was feeling when she created the piece, and what the message was that she was trying to convey. All of her pieces seem to have some kind of message. For example,

Created by Herman A. MacNeil, the statue, standing at thirteen feet tall, is a bronze statue that features a male warrior with a sword and a shield protecting a woman behind him standing on a octagonal platform. Around the base of the statue there is pictures of warriors fighting and the words: To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston - Fort Sumter 1861-1865 is engraved as well as the quote” Count them happy who for

Like many armies, the Confederates decided to make statues and monuments for the men and women who did a spectacular thing. The United Daughters of the Confederacy memorial was put up in 1934 and dedicated to “the Loyal Women of the Old South”. The Augusta Confederate Monument in Augusta, Georgia was dedicated 1878 in to represent Private Benson, General Robert E. Lee, General Stonewall Jackson, General T.R.R. Cobb and General W.H.T. And the most common memorial, the Confederate Flag itself. There are eight statues dedicated to Confederate “war heroes” in Washington D.C. at the National Statuary Hall Collection. There is a statue for Jefferson Davis, a statue for Alexander Stephens, a statue for Joseph Wheeler, a statue for Colonel Zebulon Baird Vance, a statue for General Robert E. Lee, for James Z. George, for Wade Hampton III, for Edmund Kirby, for John E. Kenna, and for Chancellor Uriah M. Rose. All of these men and women are being commemorated for their excellent work in the war for slavery. These people thought of other races to be worth less than dirt; they couldn’t have cared less about these people. In fact, they didn’t even see other races as human beings. After centuries of white supremacy, we have finally been convinced that other races are just as valuable as us. So why do we still have these statues? Why do we still hold these men and women at such a high

Symbols such as statutes are one of the most iconic remembrances of the past. Yet, it is questionable as to how proud society is of the past to remember statutes used to represent hatred. Due to the growing race related tensions in the United States, many have called for the removal of the statue of all representations of the confederacy. For example, the Statue of Confederate General, Robert E. Lee is one of the few statues that were taken down in recent months. General Robert E. Lee was remembered as a pivotal player during the Civil War, leading the confederate army. Though the Civil War ended with the end of slavery, it was not a war the United States was proud of. Many of the ancestors of those who fought in the war have had mixed feelings

One can feel the grief and misfortune by looking at this panel. The next scene is when the slaves are forcefully taken from their homes and tortured on a ship to cramped for the African Americans. As you go farther, black soldiers are marching onto the civil war, holding guns and swords with the mindset of yearning liberty. The first man is holding a flag with the words “South Carolina” and “God Gives Liberty”. As the monument goes on, it analyzes an image with the words “emancipation proclamation” and black people men and women and bowing down. Their facial and hand gestures, present joy and happiness in their eyes. As one moves away from the “emancipation proclamation”, one gets to more phrases and a man standing in between all these phrases. Phrases included “Freedmens bureau”, “15th amendment”, “Forty acres and a mule”. “14th Amendment”, “Jim-Crow Lass”, “Black Codes”, “sharecropping”. “Segregator”, “Lynching”, “Plessy vs. Ferguson”, “Convict Labor System”, and “Abridgement”. The panels starts including more ideas of freedom for African Americans and continues to the

The “Great Man” idea disregards the work of the individual solders who gave up their identities and lives to lead the Union flag into battle. Moreover, those who served as soldiers, regardless of color, where the poor. The “Great Man” was often a member of a wealthy and affluent family who had the privilege to go into a military academy and be commissioned as an officer and then work their way up from there. Therefore, the Hooker statue, which honors the “Great Man”, acts as a class bias towards the soldiers of the 54th regiment and all other soldiers of proletarian background who served in the Union army during the civil war.

Cherokee Confederates reunion in New Orleans, 1903The Civil War is one of the central events in America's collective memory. There are innumerable statues, commemorations, books and archival collections. The memory includes the home front, military affairs, the treatment of soldiers, both living and dead, in the war's aftermath, depictions of the war in literature and art, evaluations of heroes and villains, and considerations of the moral and political lessons of the war.[247] The last theme includes moral evaluations of racism and slavery, heroism in combat and behind the lines, and the issues of democracy and minority rights, as well

The two works of art that I have chosen to analyze are 1) Jordan Casteel. Miles and JoJo. 2014. Oil on canvas, 54” x 72” and 2) Aaron Fowler. He Was. 2015. Mixed media, 134” x 165” x 108”. The themes that these works of art represent in regards to the exhibit are love, family, and pain. However, they also fall into other thematic categories. The main theme that seems to apply to both “Miles and JoJo” and “He Was” is Human Experience. Additionally, these arts differ in some ways.

African-Americans were unable to fight in the war until 1863, after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. “Shaw volunteered his 54th to be leaders of the offensive against Wagner. His willingness to sacrifice himself and his men demonstrated the importance he placed on using African-Americans for active duty, something that the U.S. Army was hesitant to do” (McGill, 1). The monument was built as a tribute and remembrance to the bravery that was demonstrated by Colonel Shaw and his regiment.

Bookish museum curator Rebecca Clark has given up on dating. Real life men aren’t nearly as perfect as the men in the paintings and statues she sees every day at her job. But one night she whispers a prayer to the universe to send her the perfect man. She had no idea a goddess is listening…

The staff at the museum are expecting a delivery of two sculptures. Both of them are from ancient Greece. Sculpture A is a small, bronze sculpture with dimensions of 37/8 in. (9.8 cm). Sculpture B is also a small, bronze sculpture with dimensions of 6/4 in. (15.9 cm). My job here is to fully identify which sculpture comes from the Archaic period and the High classical period.

Robert Motherwell was born in Washington in 1915, sought to be a conservative bank chairman as his father, Motherwell had other plans. Motherwell growing up showed more interest in intellectual and creative pursuits. Following the passion landed him with a scholarship to Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Ca. Infatuated with learning, he studied multiple different variations of education, such as philosophy, literature and art history. Thus leading him to Stanford and earning his BA in philosophy.

Cubism was always an interpretation of objective reality, of a given motif. But Kandinsky was to initiate was by contrast essentially and deliberately non-objective. Kandinsky’s own experience was personal and even apocalyptic.

Mimesis: The basic theoretical principle in the creation of art (Encyclopedia Brittanica). Mimesis was a term and principle used by both Plato and Aristotle. According to Plato, art is an “imitation of and imitation” when compared to the forms. What he means by this is that an art creation is an imitation of something physical, which in itself is an imitation of a form. Aristotle believes artist creations are an “imitation of an action”. This is interpreted as art is the imitation of the action of life. Together they both agree that artistic creations are imitations of the truth or imitations of the forms. Rather than seeing artistic creations as imitations, I argue that art is an individuals perception of the forms, as well as it is the closest an individual can come to comprehending the forms. The supporting reasons for this argument include proving that the sensible are in fact artworks in their own way, that everyones perception of the forms are different, and that art is the closest way of portraying our versions of the forms.

R. G. Collingwood begins “The Principles of Art” by determining to define what is a work of art. He suggests it is made, but not by turning a medium into some thing, and not by use of planning. Here Collingwood considers that it should be determined what sort of “making” it is when art is made. It is not construction, like a bridge, nor is it accidental. In the past, it was thought that neither the skill of the artist nor his conscious mind had anything to do with art, for it was inspiration given by God that caused the artists to make something. Collingwood questions whether it is even necessary to theorize about art in order to solve the issue of what defines art. He suggests the term for how art is made should be simply “creation.” According to Collingwood, a creation is something “consciously and voluntarily” made. He asserts that creation is not done for a purpose, not planned ahead, and definitely does not change the state of any “raw material.” Art works are made with awareness by people who do not have an end in sight. Collingwood pointedly remarks to people who would take offense at the use of the word creation that even though artists create, they are not doing so in the same way God is said to create, so artists are not being considered gods in any way.