The Clay Marble

The San Antonio Art Museum Rodin exhibit invited us to question the understanding from the works of a spiritual and intrepid artist named, Auguste Rodin who informs us of our natural abilities to communicate language with our bodies. Rodin employs clay and bronze waxing to produce my favorite artwork piece “Large Hand of a Pianist” where Rodin accomplishes a fragmented hand with impeccable craftsmanship. In order to successfully sculpt the hand to imitate the rhythmic finger formations of a pianist

the rigid rules of Archaic conceptual art and beginning to reproduce what they actually observed in real life. In the Classical period, Greek sculptors created life-size and life-like sculptures which glorified humans and especially nude male form. Marble turned out to be a wonderful medium for rendering. Figures started to show emotions and appear frozen in action. Faces are given more expression and whole figures strike a particular mood. Clothes too, become more subtle in the rendering and cling

The Greek periods were divided into the Geometric 900-700 BC, Archaic 600-480 BC, and Classical 480-400 BC periods. Greek sculptures were sometimes made in honor of their myths, gods, goddesses or heroes. The Greeks had many art styles in ancient times. Each period of ancient Greece had a distinct style to their sculptures. The Geometric, Archaic, and Classical periods all varied in their styles of artwork. Greek sculptors from all three periods had a fair amount of influence for their artworks.

Ancient Greek architects pushed for the excellence and beauty seen in their works and it has left a lifetime of legacy behind them. Greek Architecture is one of the earliest forms of architecture and it is one that has influenced architects for centuries. Ancient Greece was a collection of hundreds of city-states contributed throughout the Mediterranean and Black seas. Greek life was dominated by religion and politics. The religious temples and political buildings of the time were the biggest and

significant part of the pantheon. As well as keeping the decorative features seen in the interior, it maintains the traditional design of a Roman temple. The porch, measuring 33.1x13.6m has frontal colonnade showing eight Corinthian columns made of marbles. The porch followed mainly a Hellenic-Italian tradition added the sense of balance. There is a total of sixteen of Corinthian columns located around the Rotunda so that they can hold on to the weight of the dome as well as to be used as decorative

movements and emotions of the face and body. Women were commonly in reclining positions and draped. Men were typically nude to mirror godlike physiques. Sculptures were now sculpted from clay and then copied in marble or bronze (though very few bronze originals survived) and were no longer chiseled out of marble. Greece is much accredited for their influence on Roman art. Greek influence spread throughout Sicily and Italy by the end of the 4th century. Greek artists were hired by Romans and ultimately

of particles of weathered rocks, such as sand grains and pebbles (also known as clasts), which have been transported, deposited, and lithified” (38). Clastic rocks, such as shale, siltstone, and sandstone, are composed of fragments of older rocks: clay, silt, and sand (38). Moreover, organic sedimentary rocks consist of “lithified remains of plants or animals,” and the most common examples are coal, which is made up of decomposed and compacted plant remains and

composed of mostly marble and is 425ft (129M) in length. Each of it’s 127 columns were 60ft in height. Each column drum was sculpted with a scene from ancient Greek mythology. The interior columns were gold and silver. Inside of the temple were numerous sculptures of Amazon warriors designed by talented and well thought of artists including Polyclitus and Pheidias. The temple being made of marble means that much effort went into making it. Unlike clay, which can be made immediately, marble is found in

Chidiebube c opara Art 1301 Prof Dube Listen assignment 03 March 3, 2017 (CEZANNE) (MONET) Still life with plaster cupid Monet, water lilies, In this Monet, I can see water on 2) In this CEZANNE artwork, I see a structure that looks ground covering some green leaves. Like a human baby with a white coloring. 3) In the principle of art, the thing that is obvious to me is the color and texture. This is what really grabs my attention in the art work. 4) The medium in the artwork is what

artmaking process. An artist carries out the creative process by incorporating the materials in a particular way to get the finished product. The materials needed to create a masterpiece can range from oil paints used to illustrate the Mona Lisa to marble that was sculpted into the Statue of David. An artist uses the medium they choose to use and then begins creating but it is not as simple as this. Mediums are not just what artists use to create the art, mediums allow the artist to create the art