...different eras It is surprising how different female body sculptures from different ancient civilizations are. The diverse forms of human body also embody many different functions and meanings. In art, naked figures reflect a very complex set of formal ideals, philosophical concerns, and cultural traditions. In this essay I would like to compare two sculptures of nude women. The first one is the Venus of Willendorf which was built in Paleolithic Period. Another is called the Venus of Milo carved in ancient Greece. The female body of the Venus of Willendorf depicts enlarged breasts, buttocks and genital, which represents fertility, while the body of Venus of Milo, on the other hand, demonstrates beauty and perfect proportions. Despite the difference characteristics and styles between them, they both represent the different view of the perfect female form. The most widely known female figurine, the Venus of Willendorf, with only 11cm in height, is possibly the smallest female nude sculpture we know. It is one of the most obese representations of the Paleolithic statuary. The Venus of Willendorf can be dated back to approximately the Paleolithic period, around 28,000 to 25,000 BCE. According to some analysis, it was obvious that it had once been “painted with red ochre”, a symbolic substance commonly found in connection with burials and grave goods from the same time period. It was made of Oolitic limestone. Her thighs are also large and pressed together down on the knees. The...
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...The Venus de Milo, also known as Aphrodite from Melos, is a famous ancient Greek statue that represents Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Her name, Venus, comes from the Roman name for Aphrodite, and Milos is the Greek island where she was discovered in the 1800’s. She is one of the best-known sculptures from ancient Greece having been created during the Hellenistic period, ca.150–50 BCE. During the Classical period, the art and culture from 480 and 323 BCE, there was a drastic advancement in art. In the course of this time the artwork, especially sculptures, became more natural, realistic, and human-like. Though made from marble and other unyielding materials, the artists managed to make their work look as though they were true humans with soft flesh that could breathe. Praxiteles was a famous sculptor from this time that had this amazing ability. He sculpted the first nude statue of a goddess, Aphrodite of Knidos. This trend of creating realistic statues has continued for centuries. During the Hellenistic period, the period directly after the Classical, ca. 323 BCE, and 30 BCE, there was a great demand for Classical Greek sculptures, copies, or artwork created in a similar style. Artists of this time attempted...
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...Aphrodite is depicted in many sculptures. During the year 350, a full-body, naked, beautiful statue of Aphrodite was created for the first time by Praxiteles. The statue was very sexualised, to show Aphrodite’s ability to provoke sexual desire and to show her beauty(2). Venus de Milo is an ancient sculpture, discovered in 1820 on an island. The woman represented by the statue is beautiful, half naked, but sadly the statue is broken and missing pieces. Although no one knows for sure who Venus de Milo is supposed to represent, many assume Aphrodite was the inspiration because she is half naked, and could be sexualized. (The statue was named after the assumption was made, Venus is the Roman name for Aphrodite.) The sculptor is long gone, so the...
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...The Venus de Milo was a classically posed, larger than life sized marble sculpture of Aphrodite created sometime around 100 to 130 BCE by sculptor Alexandros of Antioch. At first glance this sculpture is very reminiscent of high classical sculpture. The facial expression is muted and vaguely aloof, it does not overtly convey emotion the way the majority of Hellenistic sculptures did. It did however have features that make it distinctively Hellenistic. The S shaped curvature of the body, as well as the clear distinction between the rough gritty texture of the draped fabric and the smooth blemish free skin of the body, and the relatively disproportionate smallness of the torso are very much in line with the Hellenistic style. There is also a hint of sensuality...
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...earlier eras, such as the Archaic era and the Classical era. The Hellenistic era had more representation of the female body and the female body was now seen as art worthy and not second rate to the male body. As well as, being represented in a different form and light, women also gained a higher political stand in society during the Hellenistic era. All aspects and perception of women were changing to a more realistic view and it’s shown in the arts. The Hellenistic era is when realism of the female body, form, and mind first began. The female sculptures had a new sense of energy and had powerful tension of sexuality. Alexandros of Antioch created, out of marble, the sculpture of Venus de Milo. Venus de Milo is representing the portrait of Aphrodite the Greek goddess of physical beauty and love. Venus de Milo gives off a sensual aura with her feminine curves and her “S” shaped pose. Alexandros of Antioch lived a free lifestyle that lead him to explore the female body in a different view point that wasn’t seen before. He create beautiful sculptures that represented the real form of the female body, with rounded edges and many curves. The Hellenistic era opened the way to the realism of the female curves such as big breast, waist, and thighs. The earlier eras, for example the Classical era, had a more traditional view points of the female body as always being perfect. The female sculptures in those earlier eras were representing the female body and form as perfection, that lead to...
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...Running head: ART APPRECIATION UNIT 1 IP Unit 1 Individual Project Nathan Bates AIU Online Abstract This paper will define the word “art” from two different internet sources complete with proper quotations and citations. Secondly, it will explore 8 examples of art created by well-known artists or found in a museum. Contained within will be explanations and descriptions of each and why they were used. Art Appreciation – Unit I Definition of Art #1 Art: noun “the making or doing of something whose purpose is to bring pleasure to people through their enjoyment of what is beautiful and interesting, or things often made for this purpose, such as paintings, drawings, or sculptures.” (Cambridge Dictionary, 2013). Definition of Art #2 Art: noun “1. the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power: the art of the Renaissance great art is concerned with moral imperfections she studied art in Paris A) works produced by human creative skill and imagination: his collection of modern art an exhibition of Mexican art [as modifier]:an art critic B) creative activity resulting in the production of paintings, drawings, or sculpture: she’s good at art 2. (the arts) the various branches of creative activity...
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...aujourd’hui nous dirons quelque chose de la Paris. On va commencer avec l’information général et ensuit un petit peu d’historique et alors on va dire quelque information du 4 activités que tu peux faire à paris. Mais devant ça on va commencer avec un petit fragment du film. Dans le fragment vous pouvez vu quelques sites qui sont très connu en Paris. INFORMATION GÉNÉRALE Paris est la capitale de France. Ses habitants s’appellent les Parisiens. La ville est divisée en vingt arrondissements. Je vais parler de ça plus tard. Paris a plus de 11 million d’habitants. Paris est aussi appelée la Ville de Lumière parce que tout nuit, tout les parcs et tous les attractions comme la tour Eiffel et le Sacré cœur... sont allumées, donc tout Paris est allumé. Paris est aussi appelée Ville d’Amour parce que Paris est très romantique avec beaucoup de restaurants et bars. Paris est situé à la seine au centre-nord de France. ÉMERGENCE Maintenant je veux dire quelque chose du émergence de Paris. C’est commencé avec une tribu gauloise car les Parisii. A cette époque Paris nommait île de la cité. En 52 (VCHR) les Romains a pris la cité et c’est renommez d’ile de la cité à lutétia. En 360 (NCHR) les Teutons a repris la cité et a renommé la cité aux premiers habitants : les parissii. La cité continuait à croître par exemple : on a construit un université et un mur. Dirigé par Napoléon on a construit des choses utiles comme un hôpital. Paris est épargné de la première et deuxième guerre mondiale...
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...magical girdle that compels anyone she wishes to desire her. Aphrodite is the wife of Hephaestus. Her favorite lover is the god of war, Ares. She represented the attraction that binds people together. Aphrodite’s roman name was Venus. Aphrodite lived on the Mount Olympus. Aphrodite Hera, Queen of Olympus, took Paris aside and told him that she would help him rule the world. Athena, goddess of war, said that she would make him successful in the battle. Aphrodite ranged Paris up and she decided he would be more fascinated with the guaranteed love of the most beautiful woman in the world. Aphrodite was represented a beautiful woman. Aphrodite’s sacred animal was the dove. The Greeks were not the first to name a goddess of love and worship her with a cult. Aphrodite’s power was revealed in her actions toward both her faithful followers and those who incited her anger. Aphrodite was a very old goddess from other lands, surrounded by the active Greek gods, she was forced in the weaken role. Many statues of Aphrodite were also created. The most celebrated statue was carved by Praxiteles. Aphrodite’s statue has never been found by archaeologists. Do you know what the most famous known carving is? Well, it is called, Aphrodite of Melos. In other words, Venus de Milo, which stands for “Louvre in Paris.” Aphrodite was very kind in using her powers to help her followers. She had her son, Eros, strike Medea with one of his arrows so that she would fall in love with Jason of the Argonauts...
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...APHRODITE (a-fro-DYE-tee; Roman name Venus) was the goddess of love, beauty and fertility. She was also a protectress of sailors. The poet Hesiod said that Aphrodite was born from sea-foam. Homer, on the other hand, said that she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione. When the Trojan prince Paris was asked to judge which of three Olympian goddesses was the most beautiful, he chose Aphrodite over Hera and Athena. The latter two had hoped to bribe him with power and victory in battle, but Aphrodite offered the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. This was Helen of Sparta, who became infamous as Helen of Troy when Paris subsequently eloped with her. In the ensuing Trojan War, Hera and Athena were implacable enemies of Troy while Aphrodite was loyal to Paris and the Trojans. IN HOMER In his epic of the Trojan War, Homer tells how Aphrodite intervened in battle to save her son Aeneas, a Trojan ally. The Greek hero Diomedes, who had been on the verge of killing Aeneas, attacked the goddess herself, wounding her on the wrist with his spear and causing the ichor to flow. (Ichor is what immortals have in the place of blood.) Aphrodite promptly dropped Aeneas, who was rescued by Apollo, another Olympian sponsor of the Trojans. In pain she sought out her brother Ares, the god of war who stood nearby admiring the carnage, and borrowed his chariot so that she might fly up to Olympus. There she goes crying to her mother Dione, who soothes her and cures her wound. Her father...
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...prison * 1st day were the French revolution started * French revolution July 14 1789 27/8 * French schooling * Wednesday: ½ day * Lunch: 2 Hour break * Thursday: test days 4/9 * Louvre * Used to be a… * Fortress * Palace * Museum * New entrance to the louver * A competition: the winner was a American * A glass pyramid entrance with a underground court yard access * The three ladies * Venus de Milo (no arms) * Winged victory * La Joconde (Mona Lisa) 11/9 * Arc de Triomphe * Build to show Napoleons victories of war * Located on the Place de l’Etoillie (Star Place) * Called Star Place because 12 streets come off of it forming a star * No lines in the lanes * Located at the end of the Champs Eysees * Eternal Flame * Tomb of the unknown solider 18/9 * Place de la Concorde * Largest round about in Paris * Octagonal shape * Renamed several times * Located there: * Obelisk: 3,000 year old “gift” from Egypt * 2 fountains * 8 statues representing...
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...Unit 2 Individual Project AIU Online HUMA205 June 21, 2013 Abstract I will compare and contrast two works of art using concepts I am learning about for evaluating art. The two works of art I chose to compare are The Eros Sleeping at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Aphrodite at the Louvre Musuem. The Eros Sleeping is my first choice for a piece of art between 30,000 B.C. and 500 C.E. I think this is a beautiful piece of art. While looking through thousands and thousands works of art at several different museum sites this piece really caught my eye. The Eros Sleeping is a bronze statue from the Hellenistic period, and dated at the 3rd-2nd century B.C. It is one of a few bronze statues to have survived from antiquity. The statue is of a cute little chubby baby with wings asleep on a rock that was added at a later date. (Eros Sleeping, nd) The second work of art I chose was also from the Hellenistic period and was dated to 100 B. C is The Aphrodite. Aphrodite is a beautiful Greek sculpture of a half- naked woman sort of leaning to one side. (Aphrodite, nd) Two blocks of marble were used to make it. Her arms were never found. Both piece to me are masterpieces, but kind of hard to compare. The Eros Sleeping is made out of bronze whereas Aphrodite is made out of marble. Both pieces are three dimensional. Neither piece has any color but I have read that the Aphrodite once wore metal jewelry. She wore a headband, earrings, and a bracelet. The...
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...Leonardo's Mona Lisa AR115 Introduction to the Visual Arts Park University Mr. Trevis Martin December 2, 2012 Leonardo's Mona Lisa The tetragrammaton simply means "four letters," YHWH; which stand for the name of the God of Israel, and means "to be." The proper pronunciation and spelling was too holy to say or write that it was lost centuries ago and cannot be found in any ancient writings; therefore, Israelis substituted the name to Yahweh, or Jehovah, but only pronounce and write Adoni which means Lord. There are some things that cannot be explained, and this sort of story is not only found in religion, it can also be found in art. She is called The Mona Lisa, a most-beautiful "strange image [that] strikes at the subconscious with a force that is extremely rare in an individual work of art" (Sassoon, 2003). Her popularity is beyond comprehension and colors and lines too deep to express, and one's words are lost when one looks at her gaze. Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher (2010) explain that "the word 'art' cannot be found in any English dictionary before 1880 and that even when it did appear it was used primarily with reference to painting" (Zelanski & Fisher, 2010, p.13). Furthermore, the Oxford Dictionary defines art as "the skillful production of the beautiful in visible forms" (qtd. in Zelanski & Fisher 13). This almost sounds like an oxymoron; "beautiful in visible forms." How can one produce beauty, or better yet, how can someone...
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...GREEK CIVILIZATION The ancient Greek civilization has influenced the western world in many different ways. Greece influenced, science, democracy, art, and philosophy. A lot of what the ancient Greeks have discovered and learned is still used today in the western world. The sciences in ancient Greece have influenced the western world. Beginning with Thales of Miletus who lived approximately from 640-610 to 548-545 BC. Thales of Miletus brought Phoenician navigational techniques into Miletus. Thales also had revised the calendar. Using Babylonian mathematical knowledge he used geometry to solve problems like calculating the height of pyramids and distances from a ship to the shore. He also studied astronomy in Babylonia, and predicted an eclipse of the sun. He is also credited with the discovery of the electrical properties of amber also known as “electron”. Pythagoras, who lived from 569 to 475 BC, he was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He studied astronomy, logistics and geometry. He founded the Mystic Pythagorean Cult, devoted to the study of numbers. They found that numbers were the principle of all proportion, order, and harmony in the universe. Pythagoras also investigated the ratios of lengths corresponding to musical harmonies, and developed methods of geometric proof. The Pythagorean theorem was his great discovery in geometry. Pythagoreans were the first to consider the earth as a globe that revolved around other planets. He put a mathematical equation to...
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...France Oct 20, 2014 Introduction France is a modern European state and a republic, the capital of France is Paris, and is one of the world’s top five economies. The French head of state is the President, elected by universal suffrage (2012 elections): the president governs through a Council of Ministers and a parliament made up of two chambers, the National Assembly (lower house) and the Senate (upper house). In addition, the political system in France called (Republique). Metropolitan France (France in Europe) has a population of slightly over 62 million, a little more than that of the United Kingdom. France takes an area around 550 000 km². France official language is (French), and official currency is (Euros €). The flag - the tricolore - consists of three vertical bands of equal width, displaying the country's national colors: blue, white and red. Red, white and blue have come to represent liberty, equality and fraternity - the ideals of the French Revolution. Blue and red are also the time-honored color of Paris, while white is the color of the Royal House of Bourbon. France famous of Eiffel Tower and many other great sights .France is the largest country in the EU, stretching from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. The landscape is diverse, with mountains in the east and south, including the Alpine peak of Mont Blanc (4 810 m) which is Western Europe's highest point. Lowland France consists of four river basins, the Seine in the north, the Loire...
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...4.5 billion B.C. Planet Earth formed. 3 billion B.C. First signs of primeval life (bacteria and blue-green algae) appear in oceans. 600 million B.C. Earliest date to which fossils can be traced. 4.4 million B.C. Earliest known hominid fossils (Ardipithecus ramidus) found in Aramis, Ethiopia, 1994. 4.2 million B.C. Australopithecus anamensis found in Lake Turkana, Kenya, 1995. 3.2 million B.C. Australopithecus afarenis (nicknamed “Lucy”) found in Ethiopia, 1974. 2.5 million B.C. Homo habilis (“Skillful Man”). First brain expansion; is believed to have used stone tools. 1.8 million B.C. Homo erectus (“Upright Man”). Brain size twice that of Australopithecine species. 1.7 million B.C. Homo erectus leaves Africa. 100,000 B.C. First modern Homo sapiens in South Africa. 70,000 B.C. Neanderthal man (use of fire and advanced tools). 35,000 B.C. Neanderthal man replaced by later groups of Homo sapiens (i.e., Cro-Magnon man, etc.). 18,000 B.C. Cro-Magnons replaced by later cultures. 15,000 B.C. Migrations across Bering Straits into the Americas. 10,000 B.C. Semi-permanent agricultural settlements in Old World. 10,000–4,000 B.C. Development of settlements into cities and development of skills such as the wheel, pottery, and improved methods of cultivation in Mesopotamia and elsewhere. 5500–3000 B.C. Predynastic Egyptian cultures develop (5500–3100 B.C.); begin using agriculture (c. 5000 B.C.). Earliest known civilization arises in Sumer (4500–4000 B.C.)...
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