Research Paper On Shahzia Sikander

They shared a few similarities in their artworks and journeys to fame despite having different nationalities, and shared notable differences in their styles and beliefs. With their passion for art and remarkable talents, it is no

With most Kushite sculptures, the faces are depicted with little consideration for “idealism”. Art historians often refer to the “brutal realism of Kushite art”. Earlier Kushite

Affandi is one of the maestros of painting in Indonesia. He is one of the legendary painters who possessed expressionism in his painting. Instead of depicting an objective reality, expressionism highlights the subjective emotions and responses which the objects and events raise within a person (Kleiner 727). Affandi creates a work of art by implementing a realistic technique which directly influenced by his surrounding environment. One of his famous paintings was entitled as Potret Diri Menghisap Pipa. An oil on canvas painting sized 125cm x 99 cm created in 1997. The piece is composed of horizontal dimension with a simple visualization. This painting will be reviewed based on several section, such as; a brief description, formal analysis,

All artists are influenced by the culture they are from. Our experiences and the environment in which we were raised shapes us, and thus the works we produce as artists. This essay will discuss, compare and contrast two artists from different cultures, and their ceramic artworks, with a focus on how their cultural background has influenced their art. The artists that will be discussed are Janet Fieldhouse, who is influenced by her Torres Strait Islander heritage and Aboriginal artist Dr. Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher.

The main purpose of this paper is to describe the visual analysis of the artwork. This paper examines an Egyptian half nude portrait art which is taken from Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fig.1). The statue characterized both male and female seated figure with a Braid hair. In this essay, I will present a complete visual description of this artwork (its preservation, costume and iconography), and then I will compare it to another artwork which is chosen from Textbook that is Akhenaten and his Family (Fig. 2).

These pieces of work include carved wood and stone, manuscripts on stone tablets and reeds, illumination, calligraphy, enameled glass, inlaid metal work and glazed ceramics, preferably from the Turkish and Iranian regions. A common characteristic among Islamic artworks is their brilliant use of colors and the perfect balance between the design and form that they portray. These unique features make these pieces of art create an immediate visual impact to the observers.

Shahzia Skinder, a critically praise Asian American artists, whose contemporary paintings and murals combine the traditional art of Indo-Persian Miniature painting, and her own life experience into the rich and colorful layers of her works. I have found her art to be breathtakingly beautiful and meticulously stylized. Her elaborate and vivid compositions, using miniature art and symbols from India and Pakistan help me connect with aspects of Hindu and Miuslim mythology and the history between the two countries that I had not thought of for a long while now.

The Vindication of Sita is considered the culmination of the epic Ramayana, and had attracted numerous artists to choose it as the subject of their artistic creations. It is always illuminating to examine the differences of the paintings with the same subject matter. The Vindication of Sita from Singh’s Ramayana and the one that illustrates the Persian translation of the Ramayana show varied themes, iconography, composition, and narrative techniques that correspond to the nature of their patronages. The Mewar version is colorful and complex in layout with a full demonstration of the court’s political standing, financial power, and an attachment to what was truly Indian. The Sub-imperial Mughal version is much more modest and simple with an allusion to the Persians’ fascination of Indian classics yet a persistence of presenting it in an Islamic way.

I can still clearly remember when I first met Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury as an eighth grader. My mother had suggested I switch music teachers, and I agreed. The next thing I knew, she was driving my sister and me to Fremont to meet our new violin teacher every Sunday. I was planning to start with a month of lessons just to see how I liked working with Sisirkana; during that month, Sisirkana not only encouraged me as a violin student, but also advised me on my academic future. She knew I wanted to apply to Sacramento Youth Symphony (SYS), but she also suggested that I apply to the California Youth Symphony (CYS), a much more prestigious orchestral group. I remember staring at her as if she had just spoken Icelandic, language unknown to me. I was just an average violinist and was just finishing up the fourth Suzuki book. How could I ever expect to be accepted at the California Youth Symphony? Yet, Sisirkana reassured me that in two months, I

Native American Art History is a comprehensive legacy of arts comprised of complex as well as unique forms of art developed over years. The “First American” indigenous peoples were extremely skilled people with a deep committed spirituality which was influenced in their crafts and art. Native American art history reveals the spirit of a broad spectrum of diverse and creative

Dale Chihuly Blue Persian with Crimson lip Wrap art work can be liken to Persians empire art of metalwork, just that Dale’s work is a blown glass artwork (H. Sayre, 2011, pp 56).

This painting represents the love of an woman towards her husband. Wife was pleading her husband not to go at war because she care about husband’s life. Which show that female women at that age till now cares about their husband.

Rashid Rana is a contemporary artist born in 1968 in Lahore, Pakistan. In 1992, he did his Bachelors in Fine Arts from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, and received his degree of Masters of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, US in 1994. Being one of the most influential artists in the country, his works have been displayed in many exhibitions here in Pakistan and abroad. He has worked on many different projects including photo mosaics and sculptures, photographic and video performances, collages using objects in the environment, and works using stainless steel. Looking for a new motive each time, he has also collaborated with billboard painters and has portrayed his ideas on canvas. The secret behind his success is using different channels to represent the originality of his works using visual language. Rana’s focus of work nowadays are large scale images made up of small pictures, which are at times in contradiction with each other, but sometimes also support the larger images. He is currently the head of the Fine Arts Department and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD), Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. Rana’s works may not seem so comprehensive at first, but taking a closer look shows how detailed and subvert they are. He enabled his work to be more attractive and understandable by making it easy for an observer to comprehend by representing it with familiar

The artwork that I selected is the Parthian Rhyton. It was created in Iran from the year 150 BC – AD 225. Its medium is made up of silver with mercury gilding. The Parthian Rhyton body structure includes half rampant goat and a half drinking horn. In the artwork, there is a separation mark or point of both the goat and the drinking horn this way it looks like the goat is laying down on its stomach. The artwork total dimension is approximately 535 cm.

This essay will compare two artists from different countries, one is a Russian artist called Wassily Kandinsky and the other one is Guan Zhong Wu, he comes from China which is my own country. The two artists lived in different cultural backgrounds during the same period, so they had significant similarities and differences. First, this essay will compare the similar artistic spirit between the two artists. Second, this essay will examine the different drawing tools that the two artists used for their paintings. Third, this essay will discussion the two artists using the similar “point and line to plane” (Kandinsky 1979:1) to paint different style pictures. Finally, this essay will analyses the influences of European and oriental culture on