Art

Enthroned Zeus (Getty Villa Museum) The marble statue, Enthroned Zeus is one of the more popular Roman work of art currently on view at the Getty Villa Malibu of Getty Villa Museum.   According to the Getty Villa Museum website, the statue was believed to have been made by an anonymous sculptor or school of sculptors based on a same model that was displayed in the city of Pergamon in the 100s B.C.   Dating back to about 100 A.D., its Roman creator was so inspired by early Greek masterpieces...

Charles Dana Gibson and Howard Pyle have both exceeded the norm in their time. Howard Pyle has been deemed The Father of American Illustrators while Charles Dana Gibson has changed the standard of beauty with the image of the Gibson girl. The artist Howard Pyle who has lived from 1853-1911 has been considered the father of American illustrator. Howard Pyle has always wanted to be an author and an artist ever since he was a kid and he did become one eventually his illustration, drawing and books...

Contemporary Arts seems like a trend for many artists around the world. Included in this group of contemporary artists is Larry Bell, who just recently launched an exhibit at the Frank Lloyd Gallery from February 13 to March 27, 2010. He entitled his exhibit as Portraits of Joan New Collages. The title was based from his longtime friend, Joan who suggested this kind of exhibit. Larry Bell worked with many types of paper as his main instrument in creating collages. At first glance, one may look into...

The repetition of the Playstation controller has a potential but it has to be manipulated in a different way.  The first layout has the most potential among the three.  The scale of the controller should be downsized a little bit the variety of sizes can be retained but it would be eye-catching if it would have a fan-like effect. The controller at the back can be the smallest and the one in front can be the largest. Incorporation of designs elements that would make it look like as if it...

This paper will focus on the works of Mary Edmonia Lewis, the first African American that received prominence in the fine arts circles world-wide. An analysis of some of her works will be included, touching upon the themes, techniques and styles that the artist possesses. The artist Mary Edmonia Lewis is considered as the first Native American and African American to find appreciation in the international fine arts scene. She got her college education at Oberlin University, and then enhanced her...

Pop-Art is a term that was first used in 1955 by Lawrence Alloway, a British curator, to describe a modern form of Popular art. The new movement was famous in using aspects of popular culture and consumerism imagery. Pop-Art emerged in the mid 1950s and the style became dominant till the late 1960s. Roy Lichtenstein was a popular pop artist born in October 27, 1923 in New York. He entered high school in 1939 and enrolled in art classes before majoring in art at Ohio State University (Waldman, 12). He...

Byzantine Art and Architecture flourished during the Middle Ages (5th-14th century AD) under the aegis of the Eastern Roman Empire. The predominant theme visible in their art and architecture was the Christian religion rendered in iconographic detail. According to Otto Demus, a continuous theme existed between the artistic images, the architectural design of the church and the beholder. (1) Two byzantine frescoes originally located at a chapel in Lysi, Cyprus during ca. 1150-1300 were restored...

Every culture boasts of a certain unique medium and art form that defines their civilization. In some parts of Asia, particularly in the Southeast, gold played an important role in identifying status symbols, and determined how rich a society then was. On the other hand, China used a natural element to help them establish their culturethey used jade found in mountains and rivers and cut and polished them to make them useful. In this paper, several Chinese artifacts will be examined and analyzed,...

The very spirit of an artwork remains in the time it was created.  There is no better way to appreciate art than to understand its situational context, that is, the space and time of its creation.  Works of art are like photographs taken in a particular time and place.  In this paper we explore the situational context of three works of art (1) Produced in the late seventeenth century, Wedding of Mary and Joseph is a Peruvian painting (2) Pierre-Auguste Renoirs Acrobats At The Cirque...

There have been many theories on social class and interactions, the state and its politics and other related attributes.  The frameworks of such theories were studied and scrutinized by prominent names and groups of people that came from various fields of science who critically validated the basic structure of the contemporary society.  The relevance of Guy Debords Theory of the Spectacle will enlighten its relations to the fast-tracked developments and commodity production in the contemporary...

Voltaire and Hogarth were contemporaries in an age of optimism. Philosophers and thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment believed that human beings could make progress by solving the problems of the world. It was an age of reason that influenced over two hundred years of literature, art and philosophical thought. The works of Voltaire and Hogarth examine a society at odds with the concept of Enlightenment. They express frustration with their fellow human beings through satire, but their approach is...