Venus Of Willendorf: Gorham's Cave Art

The most fascinating art is often the most perplexing. In the case of Giorgio de Chirico, his repressed consciousness manifests itself in the surreal concoction of oil paint on canvas known as The Transformed Dream. At first glance, the viewer might simply see an odd collection of objects composed into an oblong still life. The subject matter in their particular setting are, in this case, bewildering and unsettling. Read from left to right in the western tradition, de Chirico paints a marble sculpture of a man’s face, two pineapples, and two piles of bananas. These objects are placed on a platform in a shadowy plaza,

Vicent Van Gogh once said, “If you hear a voice within you ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” Like most of Gogh’s paintings, Bonaventura Berlinghieri painted what he was passion about. Berlinghieri was “…know for his poignant and detailed scene from the life of the Saint Francis on the predella (based of the altarpiece) of the Church of San Francesco at Pescia” (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). The Saint Francis Altarpiece is a five feet panel, created in 1235 as a depiction of Saint Francis and the church. The portrait was painted on wood panel and in gothic like form. Nonetheless, this masterpiece is representation of time, the complexity of the painting and the

For my research paper, I am going to two about two types of art throughout certain time periods in history. What I am going to compare and differentiate are types of art within the Prehistoric time period, and the Roman time period. Within time periods in general, there are artworks that are relevant throughout their existing time period, and picked up later in future generations, where people can learn about their past cultures and various types of art. For the first time period, the Prehistoric period, it includes the Paleolithic culture and its art. It is divided into three parts. The lower Paleolithic, the middle Paleolithic, and the upper Paleolithic. During this time period, tools were a very essential

It is apparent that the Venus of Urbino and the Nymph of the Spring consist of more differences than similarities. Having these two pieces being made so close in time to each other, would have one believing that the two pieces would have more in common. These two pieces of art are an example of how different regions and events, such as the Renaissances, can drastically change the perspective of artists and their works regardless of how small the time gap between pieces can

The Tlatilco female figurine (1200-900 B.C.E.) is a ceramic sculpture created in Central Mexico at the site of Tlatilco. The 9.5 cm tall sculpture depicts a woman with two faces exhibiting an intricate hairstyle, a slim waist, and large thighs. The sculptor of the Tlatilco female figurine is unknown, but one can conclude that the artist was from the people of the Tlatilco culture. The people of the Tlatilco culture lived in the Valley of Mexico, where they created many small clay figures, but sculpted them by hand rather than using a mold. The figurine is currently residing at the Princeton University Art Museum. In Tlatilco female figurine, the artist uses visual elements and principles to draw attention to the face and the hairstyle.

This chapter was the start of some very fascinating art that was first discovered during that time, this showed the genius and creativity of the people of what they could create, it represented not just their culture but their way of life. It also represented the ways that they served and viewed the world as a whole during this time. This chapter highlighted the many small status that was built during this time, they were are quiet remarkable to say the least for many things they could make art with. In one of our discussion questions, we talked about the famous women of Willendorf and what that state represented to the culture. I always thought this was the way people viewed females during this time but it could be looked at from multiple angles. As I said before, this chapter brought up some great status that was created and also cave art which is fascinating and

Throughout mankind, the concept of art has developed and changed. We have observed a variety of artistic forms and styles through paintings and sculptures. Numerous amount of cultures and time periods we 're established in history from art. Some include the Greek, Roman, Early Christian, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque time periods of art. During each of those time periods, new artistic styles were created and transformed. Thousands of paintings and sculptures were made in these periods of time. In this essay, I will imagine myself being a curator of an art gallery that has a Greek room, a Roman room, an Early Christian room, a Gothic room, a Renaissance room, and a Baroque room. I will select two pieces for each room and discuss why I would put those paintings and sculptures in each room at the gallery.

Ju He. “Juan de Valdes Leal verse Audrey Flack.” Ju He’s Art Gallery. (2011): 1. Online

Made from parian marble sculpted separately before being fixed with vertical legs, this piece of art is usually thought to portray Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of physical love and beauty. Venus de Milo is a statue of a naked woman with no arms, restoration experts have said that the statues arms and original base or plinth have been lost almost since the work arrived in Paris in 1820. It has been said that this was partly due to an error of identification because when the statue was originally reassembled, the other pieces that came of the left hand and arm were not believed to belong to it because of their overall rough appearance.This goddess is often shown with mystery, her attitude always tends to be unknown. However to this day, many experts are confident that these additional pieces were part of the original work of art despite the variation in the final product since it was often common to spend less time and effort to the parts believed to be less visible of a sculpture, Many sculpture reconstruction experts guess that the separately carved right arm of the Venus de Milo laid across her torso with her right hand rested on her raised left knee, hence her clasping the clothing covering

1. Compare the stylistic and cultural features of art from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods.

The Chauvet Cave is one of the most famous prehistoric rock art sites in the world which located in the Ardeche region of southern France.

In 1911, the newly formed Borough of Stoke-on-Trent7 commissioned Vyse to design and execute a large frieze (1mx10mx2O cm), carved from Hollington stone. Illustrating North Staffordshire’s two main industries Pottery and Mining, it would set above the main entrance of the New University College of North Staffordshire. On the left side, four miners are depicted with the tools of their trade, a railway cart, pickaxes and a Davy lamp represent Mining. On the right side, three men and a woman are depicted with a potter’s wheel, a kiln and items of finished ware, are representative of Pottery. In the central panel a seated winged female figure in classical dress, an open book on her lap, and a naked winged boy at her side, personifies Learning. On her left and right sides, sit two bare-breasted female figures in classical draperies with chemistry apparatus and the set of scales beside them, they personify Science. The realistic portrayal of the working men and women, with a detailed rendering of the musculature of figures in action, are influenced by the New Sculpture Movement, which assumed a dominant position within British sculpture during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and up to the first World

The Venus of Willendorf is a sculpture of great importance from the prehistoric time period. Noted to be created somewhere from 24,000 to 22,000 BCE, this sculpture was thought to be a “portable fertility

I believe it is hard for archeologists find to hard a theory that explains why cave paintings were created because humans, at modern day are so use to images being all around us. This is why I believe the theory about hallucinations comer to be. Archeologists are trying extremely hard to understand how these cave paintings came to be, that these humans must have been hallucinating in order to create them. I agree with you, that just because images did not exists already did not mean they did not have the ability to. I agree that the animals may have fascinated them and they simply figured out a way to paint them on a cave wall because paper did not exist yet.

The Louvre is the world’s largest museum with an extremely impressive art collection. It is located along the Seine River in Paris, France. The louvre was originally built as a fortress, then reconstructed to a royal palace. When Louis XIV moved the royal residence to Versailles, the Louvre became an art museum. The Louvre includes Egyptian antiques, crown jewels, Greek and Roman Sculptures, as well as other French noble artifacts. It houses more than 35,000 works of art at any time. Most of the artwork spans from 6th century B.C. to 19th century A.D. The museums most famous piece is Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”. The Code of Hammurabi, the Greek sculpture “Nike of Samothrace” and “Venus de Milo” are also notable masterpieces.