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Full-Text Articles in Sculpture
Portrait Of Agrippina The Younger, Risd Museum, Natalie Kampen, Lisa Anderson
Portrait Of Agrippina The Younger, Risd Museum, Natalie Kampen, Lisa Anderson
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Agrippina (15–59 CE), the subject of this portrait, was related to four different Roman emperors: she was granddaughter to Augustus, sister to Caligula, mother to Nero, and niece and later wife to Claudius. It is therefore not surprising that many portraits of her survive. They invariably depict her with a broad forehead, a square jaw, large eyes, thin lips, and a sharp chin, all features shared by many members of the imperial family. Ancient pieces were sometimes combined with other sculptural elements to create “new” composite sculptures. This ancient portrait head was inserted into a bust composed of different-colored marble …
Model Of A Funerary Boat, Risd Museum, Peter Dean, Peter Johnson
Model Of A Funerary Boat, Risd Museum, Peter Dean, Peter Johnson
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During the funeral, the deceased took a last earthly journey, traveling by boat to the cemetaries on the west bank of the Nile. The next voyage then began: a spiritual pilgrimmage to Abydos, the religious center and burial place of the god Osiris. For this reason, wooden model boats were often placed within tombs as substitutes for large-scale vessels in the afterlife. This model boat mimicked papyrus funerary barks. The wedjat-eyes painted on the hull were meant to guide the vessel safely through the perilous journey to the afterlife. 2100-1900 BCE
Grand Arabesque, Second Time, Risd Museum, Julie Strandberg, Jeff Hesser
Grand Arabesque, Second Time, Risd Museum, Julie Strandberg, Jeff Hesser
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Transitional poses such as this one were constant themes of Edgar Degas’s numerous sculptural studies made in wax, wire, and plastilene. Collected from his studio following his death, these models became the sources of small editions cast in bronze, including this one of a dancer posed in a grand arabesque. In the classic ballet position, the dancer bends forward while standing on one straight leg, with the opposite arm extended forward and the other arm and leg extended backward. In the 1890s the British artist Walter Sickert visited Degas in his studio and was shown the wax model for this …
2012 Forces, Scott Yarbrough
A Crack In Everything, Jeffrey Hoffman
A Crack In Everything, Jeffrey Hoffman
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Contained herein is a close examination of self-awareness and self-portraiture as it applies to the works of artist Jeffrey Hoffman. Water, frozen into various forms and combined with natural elements of wood, slowly melt over an indeterminable amount of time, each droplet documented as the process transforms the elements. Through this process, we see change. We see time. We see truth. This documentation of change and time through natural elements is where the artwork comes full circle. Working with new media to explore man's interconnectivity to life, energy, and the cosmos, he produces time based installations, photographs, videos, and sculptures …
Taxidermy Of Thought, Jason Walker
Taxidermy Of Thought, Jason Walker
Art Theses
Sculpture is how I bring to life the dark corners of my mind. There have always been images of creatures, geology, and botanical life swirling around my head. Images that often include spires of exoskeleton, creeping tendrils searching for sustenance, or something that moves in an unnatural way. After years of envisioning and automatically sketching out these "things" it is beginning to get a bit crowded in there. It was time to excise this world in my mind and bring it into existence through my hands.
Using many different materials, including plaster, wire, paper mache, epoxy, urethane resins, many different …
Pencil Pushed: Exploring Process And Boundaries In Drawing (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Creighton Michael, Barbara Macadam
Pencil Pushed: Exploring Process And Boundaries In Drawing (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Creighton Michael, Barbara Macadam
Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
In Pencil Pushed, the word pencil functions simply as a metaphor or symbol for drawing and its activity. The selected artists are known for their drawing or drawing activity as their primary means of expression and have either pushed the material, process, or boundary of conventional drawing. Media included video, sculpture, animation, installation, and of course, works on paper. This exhibition is neither a survey nor the definitive grouping of mark-making artists. It is more a conversation about artists who have and continue to explore these regions in drawing.
Featured artists in Pencil Pushed are: William Anastasi, William Pittman Andrews, …
Linvel Barker: Works From The Collection Of Rita Biesiot, Linvel Barker, Rita Biesiot, Kentucky Folk Art Center
Linvel Barker: Works From The Collection Of Rita Biesiot, Linvel Barker, Rita Biesiot, Kentucky Folk Art Center
Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs
2012 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Linvel Barker.
2 X 20: Works By 20 Of Kentucky's Finest Working Folk Artists, Minnie Adkins, Barbara Burton, Jo Ann Butts, Brent Collinsworth, Joan Dance, Tad Desanto, Marvin Francis, Tim Lewis, Jance Miller, Lonnie Money, Twyla Money, Robert Morgan, Bruce New, Janice Harding Owens, Jim Gary Phillips, Thaddeus Pinkney, Monica Pipia, Willie Rascoe, Eileen Stockham, Donny Tolson, Lavon Van Williams, Kentucky Folk Art Center
2 X 20: Works By 20 Of Kentucky's Finest Working Folk Artists, Minnie Adkins, Barbara Burton, Jo Ann Butts, Brent Collinsworth, Joan Dance, Tad Desanto, Marvin Francis, Tim Lewis, Jance Miller, Lonnie Money, Twyla Money, Robert Morgan, Bruce New, Janice Harding Owens, Jim Gary Phillips, Thaddeus Pinkney, Monica Pipia, Willie Rascoe, Eileen Stockham, Donny Tolson, Lavon Van Williams, Kentucky Folk Art Center
Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs
2012 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of the twenty finest working folk artists.