In the Nymph of the Luo River, along with the love story of Cao Zhi (曹植), Gu (顧愷之)was good at depicting characters’ expression and the relationship among them. The placement of people are arranging well; It is obvious to see that the woman on the left side of the hand scroll is the main character. This woman is called “fú fēi” (洛神), her expression suggest a sense of gloominess and sorrow, but at the same time, her waving drapery bring out her unique characteristic and her divine temperament. In the middle of the hand scroll, the emperor Cao is standing there on the riverside, watching fú fēi leaving him. The story is a well known tragedy and it was a master work by Gu Kaizhi. The hand scroll gives rise of the sense of story board, our eyes can follow the story line from right to left, top to bottom. Gu was good at showing character’s emotions, however, he didn’t have a good sense of space and perspective. The ratio between human and trees are not in a reality scale; and …show more content…
The first difference will be the use of material and color. The second will be the space arrangement; in this stone sarcophagus, a better sense of three dimensional space is given. In Nymph of the Luo River, the arrangement of subjects is balanced but lack of the sense of real space and layering. In this stone sarcophagus, with a slightly change on the each subjects, the perspective angle creates foreground, midground and background. However, in terms of the rendering on human and objects, this engraving still gives a flat feeling, thus, it is lack of detail on human. Unlike Gu’s work, this engraving is focusing on craftsmanship on line works rather than the expression of subjects. Therefore, the subject matter seems a little bit over occupied, but the clean line work illustration, decorated frame, and a better ratio on trees and human make this work even more interesting and convincing to look
In Neri’s painting, Mujer Pegada Series No. 2, uses different art elements that makes the eye wonder. Beside the sculpture he tries to emphasize the flatness by using contour lines to give illusion to the body beside the sculpture. The shape of the head gives a sense of negative space with the shadow because it gives the sculpture more of an illusion of volume. The temperature of this painting is warm, since it used analogous colors such as orange, little bit of yellow and different types of nudes. The bronze sculpture adds a warm feeling as well. As for actual texture of the sculpture it is smooth on one thigh and rough on the rest of its body. The balance of the art work relies on the actual sculpture to the illusion beside it. It is rather
The “human form” has changed through art over long periods of time and how each civilization uses their own style to create these pieces is how art gets its depth. I'm going to be talking about one of each sculpture from every major period and explain how each one has its own flavor and own unique style. I will be talking about the Prehistoric period, Egyptian style, Greek style and Roman styles. I also have a list of vocabulary words i will be pointing out in bold to explain how these are used in sculptures.
The first thing to note is the overall composition of the painting. First and foremost it is a landscape painting. The colors are very monochrome; the space is stretched to reveal a depth to the painting that the eye cannot capture; and there is stillness to the art that embraces nature and serenity of life. In the right-hand corner of the painting there is calligraphy. The calligraphy lacks the precision, but is very clear in its form, much like the depiction within the painting
While both pieces of Art have men as their main focus the techniques used to bring the pieces to life are greatly different
In the Bronze Age paintings and specially the Minoan we began to realize how realistic they look and how they are showing movement. We can see that in paintings of landscapes, sport events or even a story or a ritual. Some of the Minoan art is different from each other but some are quite similar in style, technique or in motifs. In this essay we will be showing the similarity of style between the Hagia Triada sarcophagus and the Minoan palace frescoes paintings.
In the cleavage area has vertical line as well as horizontal on the dress. The detail the artist put into making sure the dress, belt had the right amount of details to catch everyone’s eye who took time to view his figure. The vertical line on the tassel and the knot tie just right to display the left side of the figure waist line. Indicates the figure was a petite woman. The hair is wavy in the front and pulled into a ponytail at the back. I feel there were serval focal points with in the piece after reexamine the figure the three times. Each time something else stood out shifting my focus from the original focal point. There are many repeats of all the lines with in the figure. The artist only has half of the figure's feet and arms expose which displays start and stopping points for the gown. I feel the use of the white marble may display the cold hardness of the figures heart. The smooth texture of the marble gives a life like feel of the figure. The chair has legs of an animal
The painting shows man and nature in harmony. A clear sign that he focused mostly on drawing is the geometric forms used in the painting. He used very calm tonality to give it the calmness. His artwork and brushwork are very fluid and focused. This painting has no historical meaning because this painting was after his transition from historical to landscape. Instead of telling a story it is supposed to evoke a calm mood. The golden light contributes to its peacefulness. Now that I have explained both paintings individually, in the following paragraph I will talk about their differences and what makes them different.
whereas RAMS’ couple might depict a husband and wife of high social status, which was
The sculpture is slightly larger than a real human would be. The the body and the clothing are very detailed. The face shows no emotion. The face is true to life, and the muscles are not shown since the arms have fallen off and the legs are covered by fabric. The body is in contrapposto and it is clothed. The woman is wearing a peplos. The upper half of the clothing covers the body, and the bottom clings to the body. The hair is short and
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
The sculptures and paint show details how society viewed and interpreted women body, sexuality, and maternity. In addition, revealed that these women were protected from threats around them with ornaments. Civilizations since early times, believed that we were in permanent threat from forces we do not see or cannot explain and because of it, we protected ourselves with artificial elements in a form of jewelry, crowns or caps. This idea has been continue from one generation to the next to the point that in modern societies some of us still use this type of protection in our bodies (e.g., small cross, divine images, tattoos, etc.).These pieces of art also indicate that humans believed in gods with superpowers and they are looking over us constantly. Humanity also believes in dark forces or demons trying to makes us do things that would upset the good gods. Some of the differences between these sculptures and paint are the material in which each one of them were created. The first figure, the Woman of Willendorf was carved in limestone, the second piece, the portrait of Queen Tiye was carved in wood and the last piece, the Virgin and Child Icon was created of tempera on a wood. You can also notice how the details on their faces and bodies changes throughout the time and years. The woman of Willendorf figurine offers details of a voluptuous nude women’s body but there is not face, or feet. Queen Tiye statue shows the face of a woman in detail closed to the gods but without any body parts and lastly The Virgin and Child Icon, is an expression of divinity of the views, reflections and beliefs from the gospel. Because communities started to innovate on the art of carving and painting, populations began to discover and/or create art with the objective of expressing different purposes of our daily lives, such as the beauty of a woman’s body, or to commemorate an ancient
As such some differences seen in these two ritual artifacts are the stylistic of the beadings, color, materials, and containers used to make such powerful objects. Furthermore, what these artworks allow for is a consideration of the evolving and changing aesthetics of ritual and religious art coming from Africa into the Caribbean.
The first is a medieval painting, created by the Italian painter Duccio creation, we can see that his paintings are characterized by a typical dark tones, because it is the early Virgin image, painting skills are not too mature, more oil painting Has not been born, cannot be repeated stacking, repeated changes, and thus in the character image of the expressive force is not perfect, it is not a strong light and shadow effect, but on the basis of flat painted slightly darker blooming, so that the face of the Structure and clothing pattern to show the bumps. However, as time goes on, the earlier the icon on the image, the less the effect of three, the basic lines are outlined in the plane, with color is simple and bright. But the phenomenon of rigid expression until the 16th century when the image has not been
Over the years of art history, there are many great empires that we think of and two of those were ancient Greek and Egyptian. When talking about Greek and Egyptian art history, it is the sculptures that come to mind when you are comparing and contrasting artworks. Egyptian art and Greek art both had mesmerizing sculptures but Egyptian art was more oriented towards religion and Greek art was more focused on philosophy. The Egyptian statue of the Menkaure and a Queen was similar to the Greek statue of Metropolitan Kouros in their posture but both of these statues also had many differences. Menkaure and a queen statue was created from an unusual stone and the statue was discovered in Menkaure’s valley temple. The sculpture has a hard texture and because of the time-consuming task of polishing this sculpture was never completely polished. So, the sculpture is greywacke and has traces of red paint on king’s face, ears and neck because male figures were traditionally painted red and there are traces of black in queen’s hair. The sculpture itself is 54 ½ inches in height and is displayed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Metropolitan Kouros was created from marble which seems like it has a rough and hard texture. The statue is 6 feet in height and is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Both the sculpture and the text depict Laocoön’s movements at magnifying detail in their respective medium. For instance, the sculpture depicts Laocoön with a dynamic pose. The priest’s limbs spread out in agony, filling up a viewer’s the visual space, leaving a lasting impact. The creases of Laocoön’s muscles achieve in depicting the strain and tension the priest is exerting on his limbs and torso, showing the tremendous effort the preist puts in to break free of the serpents. Simultaneously, Laocoön’s toes grip onto the floor, trying to regain his stance. By filling up