Art Essay

On the caves in Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria, around 6,000-4,000 B.C.E of the Neolithic Period, an artist created an example of parietal art called The Running Horned Woman. Although the artist remains unknown, most historians believe that the Running Horned Woman emerged from the Tuareg, the nomadic indigenous people of the region who farmed and shepherded. Through the artwork and the Tuareg culture, many historians suspect the land of Tassili n’Ajjer transformed from a region full of grasslands to a desert. The artist of the Running Horned Woman creates this piece with a variety of elements of art, such as line, color, and space, and principles of design, such as movement, proportion, and emphasis. By selecting these elements and principles, the artwork focuses on the woman of the piece as the main subject.

As the name suggests the skull instantly draws the eye, the hollow face of the skull is in the center of the oil on wood painting. The skull extends to the right where one sees an empty glass on its side resting at an angle to the skull. The glass is reflecting light along its curve but does not give one an actual reflection. Beneath both the skull and glass is a book and a sheaf of papers in a portfolio. The book’s binding is brown and the pages are yellowing, whereas the papers in the moss green portfolio are a contrasting white. The presence of paper fits with the other object in the title the writing quill, whose feather rests on the book and sheaf. The head of the quill points to the right of the painting where it rests on an overturned ink well. In the background of this painting smoke is rising off a recently extinguished oil lamp, partially in

To begin, the main figures in this piece are Europa, a mythological nymph, and Jupiter, the chief god who transformed himself into a white bull and kidnapped her. We know who the main figures are due to everyone looking at their direction and the number of details that make Europa and Jupiter stand out. Such details include the flower crown around the bull and the excess of fabric wrapping and flowing around Europa. As a viewer, it can be noted that this piece is composed of various flanking figures that range from notable sea deities to flying Cupids. Above Europa, we see a wind god blow air in her direction. Additionally, on the far right, a woman sits on a shell throne with a man wielding a trident whispering at her side. Overall, the figures refrain from assisting Europa on her kidnapping and prefer to remain on the sidelines.

This jar have yei’ii design and is at 8 ¾ tall and 8” wide at the handle. This is one of the Faye Tso’s pottery that have won the Second Prize in 1993 during the Museum of Northern Arizona Navajo Artiests Exhibition. This pieces and with other large pieces of pottery like the vase with yei’iis and human figure and the water jar with horned toads. These clay sculpture were made by Myra Tso, Faye’s daughter and it was to honor her grandfather, who sang and prayed for her. The design of horned toads on the pottery are very special because the toads was use in a ritual for praying. All ritual and ceremonies are essential parts of the Navajo way as well as sand painting art that was inspired by those that created ceremony. The dust from gold, diamonds,

The first thing one should notice is the emphasis on titular house. It completely stands out from the rest of the painting, not because

The sculpture portrays the God of Harvest, Dionysus, with his loyal satyr follower, Pan. A considerable amount of detail when into the carving of Dionysus; the multiple grapevines in his hair, his ceremonial staff Thyrsus, the goatskins and the cup of wine he’s holding are all symbols of Dionysus. The composition is very asymmetrical, and creates a contrapposto arrangement, which is distinctly Grecian (Gardner). It was carved out of beautiful fine marble, which also had another purpose in the way of making this piece of art last for many years. Along with the tree trunk between the two men providing support at the base, and the elongated arms providing more structural stability. The God’s head is even reinforced by his hair to make sure the head doesn’t break off. This sculpture is visually and aesthetically pleasing, but doesn’t serve a useful function, like textiles or furniture. Therefore, it is considered a figurative piece of art, which art that is very clearly modeled after real object or person(s), and is therefore representational

On the right, there is a naked woman as we can see her breasts are well defined. There is a serpent tangled around her legs starting from her legs to her stomach. This piece reminds me of The Magi Asleep and The Flight into Egypt because of the plant like leaves all around the sculpture. Both Magi Asleep and Flight into Egypt have plant like features on them and all three of these sculptures look to be engraved and sculpted pretty similarly. We can tell that this unknown sculpture is Romanesque because even though the demon and nude woman aren’t wearing clothes that we can use to describe the body movements and how the clothing drapes with their figure, we can look at the surrounding objects. The hairs on both figures are unruly and untamed, and we can see how the hair on the woman curves with the waves and the demon’s where it flames outwards. We can also see the objects between the demon and woman clearly, with the way the sides and the curvature of it are evidently

Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South and Madonna Enthroned are very similar images that were produced by very different cultures. Both images were produced during the 13th Century. The image of Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South was produced in Tibet during an interesting period of the country’s religious history. The branch of Tibetan Buddhism is led by a religious and sometimes political leader called the Dalai Lama. It was during the 13th Century during the reign of Kublai Khan, around the time of the production of this painting, that Tibet experienced the first incarnation of the Dalai Lama. One has to wonder if this painting is somehow related to that occurrence. According to

I enjoyed learning about them and looking at it. Prior to doing more research on them, I just thought their work wasn't art and just random things put up/built in places. Now that I know more about it, I am able to fully understand it and enjoy it better. I couldn't live with this in my house, it would take up too much space. Theoretically however, I think I would enjoy having this in my house. I t has a nice meaning behind it and it would be nice to see everyday. It is aesthetically successful in my opinion, it just works so well. I would say this art piece is a mix between formalism and Imitationalism. I believe both are what makes an artwork aesthetically successful. The whole thing, from how it was constructed to the meaning behind it, are the reasons why I think this piece is

Interestingly, instead of four, only three sides of the Sarcophagus are filled with images. The long section illustrates two Greek heroes, presumably Herakles and Iolaos, battling evil centaurs. The two other sections show a centaur attacking a lioness and the other, the representation of peace in this work, two centaurs getting along. Herakles and Iolaos are highlighted by the artist’s careful attention to make them protrude the greatest, accentuating their impact and overall importance in this sculpture. Every powerful muscle in their bodies is portrayed and given detail in three dimensions. The three-dimensions not only bring these characters closer to reality but also heighten the heroic nature, masculinity, and belligerent attitude of the Greek heroes. Instead of using basic geometric shapes to create works of art, the sculptor chooses to increase the detail in the Sarcophagus by giving everything in the sculpture individual characteristics and traits. They are presented as being stressed

Their were multiple different art works that caught my attention at the museum although through the semester it was the Roman chapter that captivated my attention the most hence forth I chose this artwork. Each piece of art present in the museum deserved their own acknowledgment respectively from the gold and marble jewelry present to the large sculptures rich in detail non stood out more to myself than The Indian Triumph of Dionysus.I found this piece of art to be appealing because there are many different people and beings within this piece of work that are well known in ancient Greek and Roman mythology. The entire piece is centered on Dionysus, yet everyone plays an important role in the overall story of the piece. Also, I found it very interesting that someone took a great interest in building a monumental sarcophagus for a man who was known for introducing wine.
As Dionysus and his followers journeyed to the East to introduce wine and culture they were sometimes

This sculpture is of a women breast feeding her child. The face of the two people is elongated, as well as the breasts of the mother. This is common to all African Art because they wanted representation of what is being expressed. In this particular sculpture, a supernatural power is being called upon. The power has been asked to protect the mother and child, and to

Although it is hard to use all of these elements Van Gogh did it in an excellent manner, with nothing in this painting being overpowering to the viewer's eye. This may be the reason for the great success for Van Gogh and his piece. This piece was so different for the era that Van Gogh did not live to see his paintings success, even though he was not successful in his lifetime most of his pieces are still remembered today for their strong composition and

Most of the imaginary lines in the painting all point toward the woman and the bull in which she rides on. The woman and the bull are also in the center of the painting also adding to the fact that they are the main focal point of the painting. There seems to be a main shape of an obtuse isosceles triangle with the sky at the top, the children at the ends of the triangle, the center of the triangle is yet again the woman and the bull. The angelic children hold both flower necklaces and reeds in their hands, while the fish seem to bob in the water. One of the angelic children is blowing a horn that is made out of

I really like this art piece because of the narritive within the abstract image that it displays. Even without seeing the title I could tell it had some sort of religious aspect because the halo are the figures head similar to paintings of the Rinasance. I love the texture of the piece with the flat blue in the background contrasting with the dry bush/pastel use for the figure. What I find so interesting about this piece is the fact that the figure itself looks very human. He is hair and has glasses suggesting he is flawed and certainly nothing like the clean and holy angels dipected in renesance paintings. However the figure does still have it’s wing, but by the title I assume he’s close to losing them.