Prehistoric art

A healthy and self beneficial activity is something that everyone wants to fill their down time with. Drawing can become a pastime that creates coordination and a visual way to express feelings and emotions that cannot be conveyed in mere words. It is a skill that can be practiced and honed to create something amazing and prove to be beneficial for aspiring artists. Having drawing literacy is a creative method of relieving stress or anxiety with many mediums to choose from and styles to draw in,

The Art and Philosophy of Balance at Constantin Brâncusi Motto: "All dilemmas can be solved by unifying the contraries" (Brâncusi) ABSTRACT: Our paper intends to be an attempt of making evident the joining of the art and the philosophy of Constantin Brâncusi, the most outstanding representative of sculpture in our century. The way of approaching this topic was suggested to us by the great artist and thinker himself, who urges us that we should not make difficult what he expressed in a simple

During my exploration of the different virtual museums that are available online, one museum stuck out greatly in my mind. The Tigertail virtual museum was quite informative and has an extensive collection of all different types of art. It features some of my favorites and does a great job of visually describing man’s journey through time from the early civilizations to present day societies. I found the museum to be extremely navigable and thoroughly thought out. I especially like the part of

Humans of the Upper Paleolithic era brought about numerous cultural innovations. In this time period we see the first art in the form of paintings in caves (Cyraboski). With the spark of creativity, the roaring fire of the first artistic cultural revolution was born. A wealth of new materials started making their way into the archeological record. For example, clay, used for pots and figurines, and bones, which were carved into beads and necklaces for personal adornment. The greatest culmination

the major Young British Artists during the 1990s, with a series of highly provocative work. Lucas began in the early 1990s by using furniture as a representation of the human body, usually with crude genital connotations, adopting the methods of Pop Art, Conceptualism and Minimalism, amongst others. In the piece entitled ‘Bitch, 1995’ she uses a table, t-shirt, melons and vacuum-packed smoked fish to combine misogynist tabloid culture with the economy of the ready-made. (See Fig 18) Lucas cleverly

Legacy of the Parthian Rhyton The artwork that I selected is The Parthian Rhyton. It was created in Iran between the years 150 BC – AD 225, according to “The Parthian Rhyton” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), its medium is silver with mercury gilding. The Parthian Rhyton’s body structure is half rampant goat and a half drinking horn. In the artwork, there is a separation mark between the goat and the drinking horn. The goat is lying down on its stomach. The rampant goat has two front

Running head: RECONSTRUCTING MEANING THROUGH EMBODIMENT ���1 Reconstructing Meaning Through Embodiment: Transforming Hands into Trees to Create Symbols of Strength and Groundedness with Grieving Adults Anelise Russo The Toronto Art Therapy Institute Professor Claudia McKnight April 21, 2017 RECONSTRUCTING MEANING THROUGH EMBODIMENT ���2 It was previously thought that once you complete the stages of grieving it eventually comes to an end. However, new research has shown that it is in

People began using different forms of art such as drawings, paintings, and sculptures as far back as prehistoric times to express their thoughts and their emotions. Any form of artwork can be compared side by side with another piece of artwork so that the viewer can relate similarities and differences in each work of art. Although created by different artist during different periods of time and for two different churches, the baptistery sculpted by Nicola Pisano, entitled pulpit of the baptistery

History of Graffiti Graffiti is a form of art involving writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall in public places. Graffiti has also existed back in the Roman Empire and Ancient Greek. During the time of the Catacombs of Rome, graffiti was known as inscriptions, figure drawing that were found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins. The earliest forms of graffiti dated back to 30,000 BCE in the form of prehistoric cave paintings and pictographs using tools such

Anthropology 1AA3 – Critical Analysis Two A prehistoric archaeologist’s goal, as per Scupin and DeCorse (2013:5), is to decipher the beliefs and mindset of past societies, particularly early inhabitants of Europe and America, through their material culture, such as the cave art found in Lascaux. This cave, located in southern France, contains what is believed to be one of the oldest artistic representations of wild animals and art; it has captured the interest of numerous scientists, philosophers