Essays on Vase

Gold swivel ring with agate scaraboid – Gallery 171 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

If we look at the Gold Swivel Ring with an agate scaraboid it is obvious that the art medium is gold and agate. The ancient jeweler clearly used the basic jewelry techniques, although his craftsmanship is impressive due to providing a product with exemplary aesthetics. However, the ring still has no recognizable subject matter. Nonetheless, the ring has a well-rounded form and the agate scaraboid is in the ovalo-rectangular form. In terms of content, this piece of jewelry despite seeming to be simple evidently proclaims that it belongs to a rich man, or rather a woman. The ring is ...

The Museum of Asian art in San Francisco is one of the must-see museums in the town. It is situated quite near to the Civic center and more than eighteen thousand pieces of fine art are exposed permanently in the arranged collections. Some of the exhibited articles are about six thousand years old. The arts and objects are collected from the entire Asian continent. Entering the museum, visitors can enjoy beautiful objects as paintings, furniture, sculptures, armor and textiles, and also there are represented objects from China, India, Turkey, the Philippines and Japan showing the culture of these countries ...

A visual expression of human imagination or skills through painting or sculptures that are used to convey an idea is considered art. Every form of art can be explained to be a creation of materials, themes and results. As a product of its context, art involves the reflection of culture and time. The individuals and diverse people value these contexts, by which both have different notions of its significance depending on what they deem to be an aesthetic value to their culture. This essay is going to discuss how art is used to portray power, lamentation, and dependency on ...

Museum of Fine Arts Houston; compare and contrast an Italian Renaissance painting with Greek vase painting.

In this work, I will analyze two works from the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, from different epochs and of different styles. Even the means involved are different. It may seem that these artworks can only be contrasted; however, it is an interesting challenge to compare them. “Black-Figure Amphora Depicting two scenes: - Theseus slaying the Minotaur - Gods in array departing for Olympus”. Date 530-510 BC. Attributed to the Antimenes Painter, Greek  Greek ceramics is the most common finding in the archaeological studies of ancient Greece; you can find it all over the areal settlement of the ancient ...

Introduction

It is customary for the non-native speakers to substitute the correct pronunciation of the words with their versions of vowels and consonants. There are patterns of pronunciation of words in every language and it is believed that the non-native speakers utilize their habitual pronunciation of the new language. These patterns in language may persist at different levels. Some of the non-native speakers tend to learn new language faster, the others retain the traces of native language in their patterns of pronunciation through the years. This may root in different factors, such as the duration of practice in new language, ...

Buddhism spread to Korea during the 4th century B.C., since the country made contacts with China at that time. The religion flourished throughout Korea under the three kingdoms namely, Koguryu, Paekche, and Silla all had adopted the imported religion and made it the official religion throughout the country. (Grayson 17). The Buddhist art under these three kingdoms reached its full blossom and several of the iconography depicted in the sculptures originated from these periods retained the naturalism wherein images closely attained ‘human-like’ appearances and well-developed forms. However, it was not until the Korean medieval period that Buddhism declined; the ...

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Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya - (Buddha of the Future) Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara), Ca. 3r century Introduction The significance of the term bodhisattva lies in the way it is used to designate Buddha-to-be. A bodhisattva is destined to become a Buddha as he progresses towards awakening because of his self- motivation and unique qualities. Buddha Gautama refers to his bodhisattva’ in his pre-awakening experiences and how he overcame fears during bodhisattva’s struggles. Bodhisattva gradually develops a clear division between unwholesome thoughts and wholesome thoughts. On considering these formulations, it is safe to assume that the idea of Bodhisattva ...

The novel The Three Kingdoms, clearly shows that women have a very significant role in the society, one of the roles include; filial piety, which is simply the respect and care accorded to ones parents. The author also sensitizes on honor and obedience, which are considered as admirable to the Chinese woman. Women are considered to be more independent and have a moral vital role of being plausible and accurate in the bringing up of their offspring to become people of honor and dignity (Liao 230). In the novel Marshes of Mount, Liang women are portrayed as evil. From ...

The Attic black-figure Volute krater by Kleitias and Ergotimos 570 BCE

The Francois vase is regarded as a major monument of Greek pottery. It is a 66-centimeter high volute krater made in a black-figure design by the potter Ergotimos. It was painted by Kleitas, with both artists signing the vase. The vase is dated 570 BC. The Francois vase was restored by Pietro Zei after it was shattered into 638 pieces in 1900 by a disgruntled museum guard (Lahanas 1).This vase, known as a volute-krater, is so called because it is a krater that has volute-handles. The Francois Vase seems to have been used as a decorative piece for ...

Art is considered as one of the most diverse human activities. Some examples of art-related activities include the production of artwork, historical study of art, critique of artwork, and the dissemination of artwork. Visual arts is one of the oldest forms of art that has been identified and used over the years. This type of art is composed of different components inclusive of the creation of images and objects in several fields such as sculpture and painting. The following paper will look into two paintings from different painters. These paintings comprise, paintings of Willem Van Aelst-Flowers in a Silver ...

Compare and Contrast Claude Monet's Bouquet of Sunflowers Impressionism and Van Gogh's Vase with Twelve Sunflowers Post-impressionism

In this paper there will be the comparison and the contrasting of two paintings made by Claude Monet and Van Gogh. Both of them are paintings of flowers in a vase. The description of these two paintings is as below.

Origin: France. Medium: Oil painting on canvas Size: 40 inches by 32 inches. Current Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  Artist’s name: Vincent van Gogh Start: c.1888 Completion: c.1889 Origin: Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Medium: Oil on canvas

Material: canvas Size: 91 x 71 cm Gallery: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, Germany

Analysis

Bouquet of Sunflowers This painting the style of impressionism ...

Elements of a binding contract

The key elements of a binding contract are; offer, acceptance, consideration, intentions to create legal relations, privity of contract, capacity to contract and the fact that it must not be illegal or contrary to public morals(Cross & Miller 2008, 195). An offer is an unequivocal statement expressing intention to be bound on precise terms with the party to whom it is made once it is accepted by the said party(Beckett 2015, 139). An offer has been distinguished from invitations to treat. For instance, in Fisher v Bell, display of goods in a shop in an invitation to treat ...

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The most captivating image at the De Young Museum is Doré Vase; which is a bronze monumental cast in 1882. This image speaks a resounding theme to my imagination, and in so far as my experience with the arts gallery is concerned I find it well framed to answer my virtual beliefs about the origin of certain portfolios. In this big bronze cast, I am able to see unique images of men, women and children who are either half nude or fully nude (Frost 80). Their positioning in the bronze cast is haphazard, failing to exhibit a uniform pattern. ...

In this paper, I discuss how the existence of man and its insatiable desire for economic growth and progress is ironically leading to environmental destruction and the disruption of this world’s natural balance. In order to prove this point, I am going to rely on my family’s experience and my personal observations. After all, experience would always turn out to be the best teacher. My family came from Chengdu, a village in the southwestern part of China. As the second child in a family of five, I have grown up differently from how my father and his ...

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) - postimpressionist, originally Dutch. His creative legacy had a huge impact primarily on French painting. . In 1878 he settled in the mining region and for the first time faced with glaring poverty. Feeling powerlessness to change their sermons, Van Gogh, after all, afflicted his money, property and clothing, and decides to study art. For this he moved to The Hague. The first paintings of Van Gogh belong to the so-called "Dutch period", covering 1881-1886 years. Van Gogh ordinary depicted laborers in all their ugliness of their daily life ...

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was a prominent American Impressionist and the first female to launch her own exhibit in the Paris Salon. In her time, there few women who managed to succeed in the field of art, especially for a colonial. She was educated by famous French masters such as Degas and spent most of her time copying the artworks of the previous masters. Cassatt first studied arts in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1860 up to 1862. As a woman, her determination is quite remarkable as she managed to successfully persuade her parents to let her ...

Made In China: Chinese Artistic Representations of Capitalist Consumption

In this exhibition, themes of appropriation and authenticity play themselves out in the works of Chinese artists Ai Wei Wei, Tamen, and Liu Bolin. Ai Wei Wei challenges us to reconsider what is authentic and what is consumerism. Liu Bolin’s works represents consumerism in the style of the vacation postcard — except in his photographs, the figure is camouflaged, evocative of the notion of China incorporated into a culture, but not identified. Ta Men’s paintings evoke the original anecdote of authenticity and food in the North American imagination. Chinese art that represents capitalist consumption brings to mind two ...

1. Individual place in society according to Horse Boy

The Horse Boy is a documentary film with a crafted footage that depicts spontaneous social interaction that contributes to its appeal and image. The perception of a social anthropologist that studies autism makes a conscious decision to focus on the experiences of autistic people, Instead of people around them. Parents of autistic children desire attention for one to understand their experiences and perspectives. The Horse Boy is a crucial reminder of the obvious fact that every autistic adult has a history of being an autistic child. Parents play an influencing role to the children lives ...

Step 1: Description.

On my desk, there is a glass vase full of paper cranes. They tumble out of the open top of the vase, poking tails and heads into the air, the vibrant reds and blues of the origami paper catching the light from the desk lamp. The vase is incidental, a square-ish, open-topped glass candleholder from some long-forgotten candle; the cranes were made in an anxious fervor, one after another, until they reached the top of the vase and required a new vessel. There are other jars around the room full of cranes, but this is the first and the biggest. The ...

Ancient Greek Vessels

The ancient Greek applied bronze, stone, glass, ivory, silver, terracotta, and other materials to design fabrics and vases. To the people of Ancient Greek, bronze was the material of choice due to its inexpensive nature, strength, resilience, and lightweight. The Greek people fashioned weapons, tools, ornaments such as horse decorations and clothing from bronze. Greeks designed vessels and vases to enable meet their daily needs. The Greek manages to make various qualities of materials by use of precious metals they largely apply vanish due to melting and reuse. The vessels of antiquity are cheaper unlike the ones established with ...

Introduction:

Bronze vessels of the Shang period have been preserved largely due to the fact that, they were buried in the tombs of the great of both female and male figures. Their primary use at the time of their manufacture was in banquets and temples at which the sacrifice of food was offered to their royal ancestors. They were buried with their owners so that they could continue to sacrifice to the higher powers even after they had died and become ancestors in their turn. As such, the vessels were evidence of power, an aspect that became even more sharply ...

Visual Analysis Paper

Art, since time immemorial, has played a great and significant part that has helped us understand many aspects of history that dates back from the Greco-Roman period and times to the present days. Artistic features have convened varied information that touch on culture, religion, politics, economics, farming among many issues that we experience in man's day today society and lives. In presenting the stated different themes, various styles and techniques have been used since the old days that have enabled artists come up with sculptures among other artistic features that have stood the taste of time in conveying the intended ...

TURKISH VASE

Art can be indeed very insightful into the lifestyle as well as the emotional and cultural disposition of the people responsible for the creation of the art. This is because art is a direct reflection of culture and lifestyle. The study of pieces of art from a given culture can reveal a great deal of information about the people who produced the piece of art as well as the historic period in which the art piece was produced. The following essay takes more of a descriptive paradigm as far as art is concerned. This means that the essay is exclusively inclined towards the ...

Introduction

Maurice Merleau-Ponty begins his essay “Eye and Mind” with a comment on science. Studying the world in the manner that science does, takes a person out of one’s body, he says. It places the world in a series of definitions, constructs, indices and variables, allowing only the understanding of minute, exact changes to have a status of legitimacy. He says science “comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals” (Ponty, 121). For any lover of art who lives in this practical, rational capitalistic society, this point of view is refreshing. Today, typically, the real world is referred to ...

One of the most memorable scenes in the entire Iliad takes place near the very end of the conflict. Hector, the son of Priam (the king of Troy) and Achilles have taken part in the climactic hand-to-hand combat that will take place in the whole tale. For a decade, the men from Greece have been trying to conquer the city of Troy, all because Hector’s brother, Paris, ran off with Helen, the wife of Menelaus, one of the Greek kings. In response to this flight, Menelaus and the other Greek kings brought their armies across the sea. Initially, Paris ...

Just like anyone else, all characters in a story have their own historical background and information regarding their pasts. This information is usually very important in understanding their traits and their current lives. Therefore such information assist readers understand a specific story. This is what is referred to as exposition. Generally it can be defined as the historical background touching on the characters and setting in a given story usually at the beginning of the story. The major information is usually occurrences that took place before the story was initiated. Therefore it is usually the initial part of the plot. Therefore, in ...

One of the writers whose name is William Faulkner said: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” As he said, past is still going. His quote is similar to the history of art. Throughout art history, we learn and imagine about our past and how people used art to represent their lives on their period. One of the artworks that people used to represent their lives is vase. People used vase both, as art work and as household item. It was used to store water or wine in it or something else. As the time passes ...

Abstract

For the purpose of this paper, I will be discussing the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, as well as a terracotta bell-krater attributed to the Methyse Painter, and comparing both works in terms of their composition, formal elements, and cultural context. The selection of these works allows for two central activities of the Greeks to be compared, especially ones represented by their own divine figures. The east pediment and the Dionysian vase feature two distinct sides of Greek culture – the former showcasing Greek’s love of justice, and the latter the Greek’s love of wine ...

Ancient Greeks developed vases during the Bronze Age and used different techniques and materials to achieve a unique style. Some of the styles include the proto-geometric styles that applied during Greek Dark Ages. The style had arcs, triangles, wavy lines, and circles together with artistic expressions of jewelry, mural painting, and monumental architecture. Some of the Greeks that used this technique were from Corinth, Naxos, and Boeotia from Aegean. Greeks in the 8th centuries used geometric art that had the following attributes motifs and iconography in the Mycenaean period while in the Minoan periods the Greeks used abstract motifs characterized ...

The Red-Figured Kylix with Athlete is typical of the Greek terracotta pottery produced during this period. Upon viewing it closely, it appears to be in very good condition, and there is not much proof regarding its age since it is practically brand new. The terracotta material lends itself to beautiful work, especially in the way it is portrayed. The Greek and Roman cultures had exquisite pieces of art in their curriculum and one of the most famous of the artists was Euphronios whose workshop was constantly on the lookout for talented artists to produce such works. The Kylix is ...

The Red-Figured Kylix with Athlete is typical of the Greek terracotta pottery produced during this period. Upon viewing it closely, it appears to be in very good condition, and there is not much proof regarding its age since it is practically brand new. The terracotta material lends itself to beautiful work, especially in the way it is portrayed. The Greek and Roman cultures had exquisite pieces of art in their curriculum and one of the most famous of the artists was Euphronios whose workshop was constantly on the lookout for talented artists to produce such works. The Kylix is ...

The Chinese Sheng dynasty was rich in symbolism and artistic prowess even though it dates back to over 2000 BC. There are a vast number of ornaments, sculptures and artefacts which have been recovered through archaeological diggings and the two examples discussed here provide some interesting comparisons and concepts. Although the first vessel dates from almost 2000 years before the second one and is made out of bronze while the latter is composed of earthenware, there are similarities between both objects as well as a demonstration that the artefacts have developed in style. They are both supreme examples of sculpture in ...

[Author’s Name] The world of science can be made really appealing to kids if they are introduced to the concept of magnets and magnetism through the use of different simple activities. The mentioned magnet activity is a cheap one and the Grade I kids can carry it out without getting messy and unclean. The curiosity of children can be stimulated by providing them with the required instruments/equipment for the completion of activity. This magnet activity only requires three things i.e. a glass of water, paper clip and a magnet. The first step would be taking a glass full of water ...

Question 1

Art has to have the ability to evoke a reaction from the people interacting with it, either from the sentimental meaning the specific work of art elicits, or from the aesthetic value it creates. Art is the conversion of obscurity and rendering of meaning to it. Clay in its natural state cannot be depicted as a work of art. An artist sources the clay, in this instance the raw material and transforms it into something meaningful such as a flower vase. The artist gives the specific work of art form while interactions with the work of art elicit different reactions and varying ...

Detroit Institute of Art

The Attic Panathenaic Amphora This ceramic vase, Attic Panathenaic Amphora is more particular to me in style distinction, in-depth detail, structure design, and the color and suits my passion for the ancient Greek mythology and sophistication. This vase in particular has the orange-red color with a mix of brown that portray it as warm and excites one inner-self and drive. The vase captures one imagination of how vibrant and exquisite an object looks even in its thousands of years given its less flashy look but so attractive to the eye. The goddess of war is symbolized by the ...

Introduction:

The Chinese Sheng dynasty was rich in symbolism and artistic prowess even though it dates back to over 2000 BC. There are a vast number of ornaments, sculptures and artefacts which have been recovered through archaeological diggings and the two examples discussed here provide some interesting comparisons and concepts. Although the first vessel dates from almost 2000 years before the second one and is made out of bronze while the latter is composed of earthenware, there are similarities between both objects as well as a demonstration that the artefacts have developed in style. They are both supreme examples of sculpture in ...

The flash of light instantly captured by the lens of the camera, the slight blur turning upside-down the whole imagination, the sophisticated twist of the vague outline – all these factors make the works of Uta Barth simply stand out among the other contemporary geniuses of photography.

Born in 1958 in Germany, Uta lives and creates in Los-Angeles now. Being the Bachelor of Arts and having become the professor in the University of California, like nobody else she knows what message photography can bear (Uta Barth). Numerous exhibitions dating back from 1990’s have proved that her unusual vision of ...

Artists Research Project (Painting)

AL HELD an American abstract expressionist painter known for hard edged paintings. This amazing piece of art is a huge colorful and complex piece of art. The geometric abstract art projects a tormented vision of space. The confident use of symmetry is humanistic and appealing. The colors used are enough to make one find himself among excellent piece of art.

This painting of Eric Fischl, caught my eye because of its dramatic effects. The kind of astonished face of the woman in the picture depicts a real life situation. I think that Fischl was at the scene when he got the idea ...

1. Title: The Sunny Day

B. Dimensions: Painting

C. Medium: Acrylic on canvas D. Description: When I was a child, I would visit my grandmother's house often, as she would take care of me while my parents were working. Every time I visited, I saw this sunflower; its size and bright, vibrant colors would always catch my eye, and that is what I wanted to convey in this painting. I used acrylic to accent the sunflower's natural color and brightness, contrasting it against my grandmother's house in the back.

2. Title: Prepare for Docking

A. Year: 2010

B. Dimensions: 2D C. Medium: Marker & colored ...