Rondinone's Seven Magic Mountains

This particular artwork is an appropriation of the rather majestic painting ‘North- East view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko’ by Eugene von Guerard, produced in 1863. Tillers has re-contextualised the work and given it added value for the present time. ‘Mt Analogue’ explores ideas of authorship and originality through his use of appropriation. He has

Janet Echelman is an artist who considers the cutting edge of sculptures, public art, and urban transformation in her art works. Her art work in question “Her Secret Is Patience” uses a cactus flower shape as a symbol for the Arizona desert city of Phoenix. Her art work is held by three leaning poles that are forty to hundred feet high. According to Janet her act work was inspired by the patience of the saguaro cactus, she say, “It’s a spiny cactus putting down roots in search of water in the desert, saving up every ounce of energy until, one night, in the middle of the cool darkness, it unfurls one succulent bloom” (Artforms, p. 6) The center of her art work is the colors of the net being both everlasting and ever changing, solid yet spacious,

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A lucent crescent of the moon is seen on the top right hand corner of the painting where dramatic contours and fluidity of the brushworks are seen due to the Japonisme influences. Moreover, the eleven stars and the rolling hills are depicted moving to the momentum of the swirling sky.

Beauty is an incredibly subjective thing; what might seem appealing to one’s eyes may be horrendously ugly in the eyes of another. However, the status of “beautiful” or “ugly” can be assigned rather objectively when art is examined from the perspectives of different philosophies. The beliefs and values of different philosophies can be used to find meaning and beauty in various art forms, allowing for a more straightforward determination of beauty. Because of the many layers of meaning most paintings entail, they are a perfect example of an art form that can be analyzed by numerous philosophical viewpoints to find meaning and beauty, and Ma Yuan’s painting Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring, which comes from the Song dynasty of Chinese and depicts a sole figure standing in a natural surrounding, is no exception. Ma Yuan’s painting is beautiful because it represents the ultimate achievements for the Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian philosophies.

An inspirational sight for holiday travelers, they'll be awesomely impressed with the prominent craggy peaks towering like signposts to Heaven far above the immediate surrounding terrain. Open forest areas with wide walking tracks and panoramic views from lookout

Throughout history, societies have defined and transformed themselves through their art. When looking at works of art today, a person sees not only the work of art itself, but also the world from which it came from. The same is true for this transformation mask, which reflects the works of art and beliefs of the Northwest Coast Tribes.

In the Heart of the Andes’ painting by Robert Seldon Duncanson, an immensely deceptive illusion is cultivated. This 1871 naturalistic landscape entices the viewer’s senses and lends itself to being part of the “beautiful” which is _____. This painting is a rendition of an earlier work done by Frederic Church in 1859. The formal qualities present in Heart of the Andes appear to fabricate an amicable symbiotic relationship between man and nature with motifs of God acting to legitimize human fallibility.

7. The Mountain – The mountain in Hindu (India) culture was seen as the center of the universe from which all things could be seen. Since people climb “up” mountains, characters that climb the mountains can be seen as moving upward on a spiritual/emotional journey. Biblically, mountains are places where God reveals his truths to man. In nearly all stories mountains are mysterious, powerful places.

Lastly, de Botton discusses the sublime in terms of its ability to call attention to the duality of pain and happiness. He includes several pictures in this chapter of vast landscapes that express the contrast of light and dark far more evidently than in other pictures throughout the book. The inclusion of these pictures serves to prompt the reader to recognize the stark contrast yet intimate relationship between light and dark. Likewise, De Botton’s description of the sublime is often in opposition to itself; he describes the sublime as “to do with feelings of weakness”, “threatening”, “can provoke anger and resentment” and “a defiance to man’s will” (de Botton 164).

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.

Each of three mountains represent “present” (Mount Haguro), “past” (Mount Gassan), and “future” (Mount Yudono). Mountain ascetic hermits undergo practice of life and death.

In that amount of time, he created over 250 paintings of his water garden with his special water lilies. This painting is a complete eye catcher, it is full of various light patterns that reflect from the surface of the water and create abstract in a unique, yet, pleasing way. The viewer can easily see the different tones of colors that blend in a calming and soothing manner and the ways that each of the water lilies are shaped unlike any other. The mixture of colors being swirled in a circular blob formation in the middle of the painting creates a reflection in the water.

Mountains are too big to be real, I saw one in TV that has a women hanging on it by ropes. Women aren’t real like Ma is, and girls and boys not either. Men aren’t real except Old Nick, and I’m not actually sure if he’s real for real. Maybe half? (Donoghue 18)

The use of geometric shapes in this painting allows the subject to be viewed in both a recognizable and unrecognizable state at the same time. Overall, geometric shapes and patterns play an essential role in what the viewer sees, which is further supported by a powerful color palate.