Claudel completed his 1 foot 4 and 7/8 inch bronze statue in 1895. The piece is now being kept in a private Paris home. Due to the bronze, the statue is dying a slow painful death. The piece has Bronze Disease, which is the green moss looking substance polluting the surface of the statue. The “disease” acts like rust, so if left untreated the statue will be ruined. The positives are bronze is harder, fusible (easier t melt) and can pick up the detail when in the process of casting, giving the statue the exquisite look it has. The sculptor, Claudel, would have had to use the bronze-wax casting method to produce this piece. The details of the couple’s graceful movements are perfectly captured. The texture of the muscles and drapery heightens …show more content…
The Waltz shows a quick glimpse of the couple’s intimate scene. It reveals the meaning being post-impressionism. The form, everyday subject and overpowering passion oozing out of the everyday, yet touching dance the couple twirls to. Before The Waltz, Claudel was in a relationship with Aguste Rodin, another sculptor at the time, and Claudel is considered to be Rodin’s muse of his sculptures. The pair, split and Claudel was soon infuriate with her lack of recognition compared to her previous lover’s standing ovation. Claudel clearly depicted fin-de-siècle, French for “end of the century”, in her wonderful statue. She showed the world women could also become artist and use nudity in their form without the exotic scenes corrupting their minds. Claudel used her piece, The Waltz, as a memorial for the end of women discrimination in the art world. In comparison, The Kiss by Aguste Rodin and Claudel’s The Waltz both show a naked couple embrace each other in their love and illustrated the raw emotion each person feels for their partner; however, while Rodin’s was meant to be romantic and sensual, Claudel’s created her piece to express her vengeful hatred to the unfairness of gender decimation, not Romeo and Juliet’s puppy
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – popularly considered by many to be the quintessential love story of all time – is a play that we are all familiar with in one way or another. Whether it be through the plethora of portrayals, adaptations and performances that exist or through your own reading of the play, chances are you have been acquainted with this tale of “tragic love” at some point in your life. Through this universal familiarity an odd occurrence can be noted, one of almost canonical reverence for the themes commonly believed to be central to the plot. The most widely believed theme of Romeo and Juliet is that of the ideal love unable to exist under the harsh social and political strains of this world. Out of this idea emerge two
The play Romeo and Juliet has been considered to be the most touching love story of all time, but when you look closer and past all the initial “fantasies”, you see the truth. Romeo and Juliet believed that they were in love because of the mere idea of it, however based on their actions and the short amount of time that the stages of their “love” progressed in, it soon became clear that what they were actually feeling was infatuation.
Romeo and Juliet, one of William’s Shakespeare most famous classic works, is a heart-wrenching tale which is composed of passionate love and anger. It is a timeless piece of literature that has lasted to this century. The beautiful story is set in the remote town of Verona. This play recounts a tale of two star-crossed lovers, forbidden to pursue their inescapable love due to the long history of a violent family feud. Passion is strongly represented in Romeo and Juliet’s undying romance. As the story continues, passionate and uncontrolled anger is clearly expressed, fuelled by the noxious hatred of the family’s feud, intensifying as the plot progresses.
The work of art discussed here is a piece called "Bronze Statuette of Cybele on a Cart Drawn by Lions." This particular piece is mostly a
Although the museum’s policy eliminates viewer touch, it preserves the piece. It would have been a vicarious experience to touch and hold this piece that was created so long ago and held by ancient hands. A statuette is a smaller statue, smaller than life-size. To design this piece the created molded bronze into the form required.
The main idea from the first movement comes back again, which later transitions to the waltz theme again. In this movement, the artist is attending a ball, and is enjoying the beautiful notes of the waltz when he remembers his love again. The harp playing in the background indicates a sense of loneliness felt by the artist; he imagines dancing with his love in the ball room when he suddenly realizes that it is only a dream and he is still in the ball. The louder music is to suggest that there are people in the ballroom, dancing around the artist. At the end of this part, the music gets faster, which creates a sense of urgent need for the beloved
How would you feel if you drove twenty four hours or more to see a statue or a monument that you always wanted to see and someone turns you around? My brothers and I drove to New York to see The Statue of Liberty and the workers there told us that you have to make reservations to see the statue up close and personal. Certain statues are so old, so fragile, and so powerful with the message they tell that preserving the statue is the only way it will continue to stand. The Lafayette’s Alfred Mouton statue is a statue with many different meanings and it should stay up and tell the message it was built to tell.
When examining and comparing The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius and Justinian as world conqueror it is important to examine the iconography and visual motifs of both pieces before comparing and contrasting them. The Equestrian Statue of Marcus is an example of a Imperial Roman made from gilded bronze, and Justinian as world conqueror is a panned from the Barberini ivory which is a diptych from the Byzantine Empire
The word love can mean many things. Love can be an object, emotion, and a life. However, love could lead to a loss of power, prosperity, and status. In the literary work “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare, the readers are introduced to a tragic love story. In this play, readers are also shown the different perspectives of love and the many downfalls it could lead to. The central theme of this work is the recklessness of love. The theme is significant because it is shown throughout the whole story and it’s a strong force that takes place of all the other emotions and values. In this play, Shakespeare uses characters to present different aspects of love. In addition, Nurse, Mercutio, and Romeo completely show what actual love is and what it is like to lose it due to their experiences.
Moreover, the subject of the artwork is love can come from emotional attraction and one can be blinded by their other’s physical beauty. Romeo and Juliet need to realize that love based solely on physical attraction will lead to doom. The couple needs to turn a blind eye to their beauty, so an emotional love can blossom. The fateful night of the Capulet party inspired my thesis. “Her beauty is too good for this world; she’s too beautiful to die and be buried,” (Act 1, Scene 5, Page 2. "
Our world is full of so many grandiose monuments, eye-catching sculptures, and stunning statues, each having an individual story to tell. Thousands of them have been created however, only a small number of them are actually extraordinary and picture-worthy. This paper will compare and contrast two of those picture-worthy sculptures. Furthermore, I will examine the aspects of each of these sculptures. I will compare and contrast what each of them represents, the differences in texture, their size and their tone.
[…] I’ve been locked in this noxious embrace for the thirty-five years this waltz has lasted.” (Parker 50) Not only does the protagonist express her feelings towards the man but she also reveals what the waltz actually stands for in her narration. She feels to be trapped in her position as a wife and dancing partner. The man she dances with is her putative husband and the waltz they are dancing is a symbol for their marriage.
Walking around The Metropolitan Museum of Art, there are many ancient pieces of art and old artifacts on display. One of the art pieces that caught my eye was the Head of a Ruler, from ancient Iranian or Mesopotamian times. I chose this figure because the person depicted in the copper head looked like an important figure of the time. The man is well groomed and has an emotionless face, but it also looks like he is portraying a little confidence in his expressionless face.
Another fairly inexpensive type of statue is the concrete or cement statue. These statues can be left "as-is" or painted. They can be molded into any shape, but they will not have the fine detail of some of the other garden statue materials so they are often fairly large. They are relatively inexpensive when compared to the real stone statues. They are heavy and withstand the elements fairly well, but if they are hit or knocked over they can be broken
In the nineteen century, the Waltz was one of the most popular forms of dance that demonstrated structure and courtship. During this era, “the waltz was a completely new dance form that perfectly suited the new conditions of modern life—socially, psychologically, and materially. These nineteenth-century developments in dance were reflected in elaborate dance