The Art Goddess Sekhmet Analysis

I think about how the world had betrayed this women. They made this woman plump and empty, she does not even have a face. This statue is nude showing everything to the naked eye, she does not have a desirable body. This sculpture shows how much a woman was respected back in the day, which was very little.

The statue of King Sahure and a Nome god is an interesting piece of Ancient Egyptian art ( c. 2500 BC ) that shows signs of Ancient Egyptian culture and beliefs. The statue is a small relief sculpture, meaning the sculptural elements are attached to the solid background of the sculpture and appears to be emerging from the material. The piece clearly depicts two figures side by side, one standing on the left and one sitting on the right (facing foreward). The purpose of this piece was probably to depict a certain symbolic interaction between the two characters.

Her face is empty and has no meaning because it is what women was for at that time. The face of women was not important to keep the family line or the clan strong. Men wanted women who had more female features which they think can make their children healthy and strong. So then, the women’s body on the statue shows bigger breast and hips because that

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).

Ancient Egyptian and Greek statues have many similarities. Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude is an Egyptian statue from 1473-1458 BCE. It is almost 8 feet tall and almost 2.5 feet wide. It is made of granite and is a statue of Queen Hatshepsut, the wife of Tutmose III, one of the most dynamic egyptian kings of the eighteenth dynasty. The Marble Statue of a Kouros (youth) is an Archaic Greek statue from 590-680 BCE. It is a little over 6 feet tall and about 20 inches at its widest. It is the representation of a nude male figure and is made of marble. However, the artists of both the statues are unknown.

With the sculpture straight ahead, the audience sees a profile view of the scene; however, the artist created the sculpture with enough space and depth to be able to view the front of the woman’s face from a side angle. The artist created the seated woman with much detail; her nose, chin, slightly opened mouth, pronounced brow line and inset eyes show this. She reaches for the chest with her right arm in a very delicate manner as her left arm lays on the throne for support.

This sculpture is comprised of marble, and due to its large size it was easier for me to develop an impression about the piece because I can focus on specific parts in more detail. To understand the piece, a very visual and detailed perspective is needed. Judging by the way the thighs are represented, it appears as though she is striking a contrapposto pose, which makes her appear static. She has most of her weight shifted on her left leg, but not all of it The focal point of this piece I believe is her robe. It skillfully falls down her left side, while leaving other parts exposed, drawing the main attention of this piece. Few different types of shapes are displayed, except the shape of her legs and the form of the robe. The physical texture was smooth throughout the entire piece, partly due to the material it is made of. There is only this one texture, as her robe and body parts all feel the same.

The clothes on the faïence figurine is the main importance of the empowerment of women. Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe explains on his website, “Www.arthistoryresources.net” the meaning of the figurine and how it contributes to the empowerment of women. First, she is wearing a crown on her head, which symbolizes she has a high status. Women back then weren’t viewed as equals to men. So, for a woman to have a higher status than a man means she has power to her. The dress she is wearing is tightly fitted on her body, and her chest is exposed. This illustrates, a woman who is in charge of her own body. The firmness of the breast suggest that the woman is young. With this in mind, not only does she have a high status and power, she has youth too. The choice of clothing in which you wear symbolizes the status that you are. In the case of “The Snake Goddess,” her clothing represents the power that she has.

The marble used to create the sculpture brings out the fine quality of such material. It also adds elegance and sensuous grace to the whole sculpture. The use of marble links the sculpture to the radiance and softness of the female skin. The hips of the

The sarcophagus of the young girl lounging propped up on her elbow is petting a small dog and looking at her two dolls her body is elongated to fill the space on the top and there are small holes in her ears where jewelry would go. The condition of the girl herself is missing both her arms and hands while her dolls at her feet are missing their whole upper bodies. In her funerary sculpture the girl is with her toys and items she loved in life. This piece not only uses mythological allegories which is used

The sculpture that we have observed has been dated to the first half of the first century C.E. This places the portrait during the Julio-Claudian period in Roman history. From the information we have gathered about the time period, the woman's style of dress and of the types of sculpture prevelant during the period, we have formed a possible profile of the daily life of the subject.

Ancient Egyptian Sculpture Queen Nefertiti ca. 1348-1336 B.C.E., Eighteenth Dynasty painted limestone, rock crystal eyes, height 20” (50.8cm) Staatliche Museum Zu Berlin. Was recorded in a life size portrait. Discovered in 1912 in the studio of Thutmusis,

The Heart to Lion is different than the other pieces that have been mentioned. It has a free forming flow, most of the statue is composed of a long wire and large pieces. The space is very open and free, it is not enclosed or tight which is normally a positive space, with that being said from all the open space that the Heart to Lion contains it is in a negative space.Similar to the other pieces this statue has lines and shapes. The shapes are free forming shapes, they are not dominant shapes as a circle, square or triangle would be. The shapes on the Heart to Lion are shaped with curved lines to also show that the shapes are free forming. The lines are seen everywhere, there are curved and bold lines, the bold lines are very obvious since it is of a darker granted shade than the rest. The line starts off being a straight bold line,but then seems to end up being curved into the free forming shapes. The texture of this is rough all around, the only smooth section that is noticeable on the statue could be the flat part of the shapes or the bold line as well. However, from the overall, sight of the piece it seems to be rough,but not too rough. The color of this statue is different than the others mention, the color of it is a grayish tin color. The color is well known as a mixture of black and white usually there meanings behind the those two colors which are death and peace. Since it is heart it shows the meaning of why the artist chose that particular color. Cumul I is a piece made by Louise Bourgeois it has some similarities and differences to the Heart to Lion. Cumul I is a piece that is quite different than the other sculptures. It is strongly referred to human figures once viewing the sculpture. However, it does have a volume with an enclosed space so the space is positive, and the space around it is negative. It has shapes of a sphere all around the top with a lay of a

The subject of The Statue of the goddess Sakhmet is a goddess from the 18th dynasty, was a part of the Kom El Heitan map to serve as the king’s eternal ritual calendar. It was part of a religious ritual, made by Amenhotep’s massive statue program. They believed that the Sakhmet was made to be a “litany in stone,” to calm down the goddess and not make her use her negative powers on them.

in this artwork the position that the figure is sculptured in could be seen as a position that depicts sadness, depression or loneliness. This position creates an empathetically emotion in the viewer as the viewer might know how it feels to be lonely or depressed. In image 2 Lesego has made adjustments to the sculpture because when using it in he’s artwork, instead of the action of the girl brush her hair I would make it a boy covering face and crying like image 2 as this would portray the meaning of image 2 better than if I had left it with woman brushing her