Assignment 3 Tony Eary Dr. William Denning Hum-112 December 14, 2013 Cultural Event Report I took my wife and children and attended the University of Kentucky Art Museum on December 14, 2013. When we entered the building we were approached by a man that was dressed in a suit and tie also wearing a white glove and a woman wearing a white shirt with tie and dress pants and she had a white glove on also. They asked what my interest was, but all I could answer with at the time was “Art’. There was so much to see from self-portraits, sound sculptures, photos, weaving, tapestry, tiffany lamps, and abstracts and baroque artistry. There were new words that I didn’t even recall ever encountering in the book, for example, bucolic, sound sculptures, soumac, and photorealism.
These huge structures would not exist , nor the fabulous temples , the tombs on the West Bank of Thebes and their mummies , or the colorful decorations on these structures that have attracted travelers to Egypt over the past three thousand years or more . Behind every aspect of Egyptian life , as well as the art , and the cultural accomplishments it is important to understand the religious forces that formed the cultural aspects of ancient Egypt . Religion The spiritual or the religious world that was formed by the ancient Egyptians was a richly fascinating one which remains unique in the history of human religion . Although Egyptian religion was often covered in layers of myth and
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MAYAN CIVILIZATION Mayan civilization peaked too early to impress the Spanish in the manner of the Inca and Aztec empires. The great Mayan ceremonial centers visited by modern tourists were all in ruin when the Spanish arrived in the 1500s. In fact, the highpoint of Mayan imperial organization was almost a thousand years earlier. Mayan city-states were located in high mountains, in densely forested tropical lowlands, and on the arid Yucatán peninsula. Like the Mexicas (and other indigenous people of central Mexico), the Maya built stone pyramids, but they did not dedicate any to human sacrifice.
The statues were found in early 1970’s in a dark cavern in Xian, located in Shangxi province (Capek, 2008). Radiocarbon dating ascertains that the sculptures date back to the third century. The idea of recreating a whole army is incredible in the sense that no one remotely had thought of such an idea before. At first, the finding was kept in secret from the rest of the world, but it quickly turned out that archaeologists had run into a discovery that they claimed to be the most significant one in the history of sculpture (Man, 2008). This find caused fascination all over the world, since it was the only exact copy of a life-sized army created by humanity.
The Culture of ancient Egypt was born 5000 years ago, and for many centuries powerful rulers called pharaohs ruled the land. The people of ancient Egypt respected their Pharaohs and helped them by constructing the buildings to honor their leaders and gods. This is evident from the remains of the breath taking architecture left behind by their civilization. Today over 80 pyramids remain all over Egypt, most of them found along river Nile up to the capital Cairo. The Egyptian culture mixes African, Asian and European ideas.
He grew up from stonemason family. Because of this background, he learned to value crafts, practicality, understood the materials, mastered the use of tools skillfully and the slow, measured pace of transforming raw material into cultural artifacts. Mies did not attend to high school or university. However, In 1899, through a scholarship he started to study in trade school where education was offer several lessons, particularly on life drawing as well as technical drawing. Learning to draw was pivotal for Mies, the early on demonstrated his talent is occasionally lettering for one of his father’s tombstones, then in technical drawing at school and shortly theater in drafting large scale decorative details fora stucco fabricator for whom he worked for two years.
9th grade Ancient Egyptian Art Ancient Egyptian art is the painting, sculpture, architecture and many other arts produced by the civilization in the Nile Valley from 5000 BC to 300 AD. Ancient Egyptian art reached a high level in painting and sculpture, and was both stylized and symbolic. Most of the remaining art can be found in tombs and monuments. Symbolism played an important role in Egyptian art. Animals were usually also very symbolic figures in Egyptian art.
Tutankhamun became King at the age of 9 and died at 18. The discovery of his tomb made him famous in history because of the treasures and artefacts that were buried with him. Tutankhamun’s tomb was small relative to his status. It is believed that his tomb was made for a noble not a pharaoh and that he may have died before the completion of a grander royal tomb. Egyptians believed that after people died, they went to an afterlife, where they would continue their lives as they lived them on Earth.
Infatuated with storytelling using slang and colloquial language, Fisher’s works became visual narratives. Ambiguous in meaning, his subject matter conveys a reflection of his childhood memories and his everyday cognizance. In the Modern Art museum of Ft. Worth, Vernon Fisher allows the audience to see works of his entire career to date. In this presentations he used anything from paintings to sculptures and of course installations from the late 1970’s to the present. These works are from public collection, but we are also treated with some pieces from his private collection as well.
Scary, Scared Scarecrow by Jocelyn Shipley This was my first time going to The Art Gallery of Lehman College. There was one day I passed by but didn’t pay much attention to the art that is in there. This time as I entered the Art Gallery, in the first room I saw a beautiful artwork, it seemed colorful, but as I got closer and closer to see it I noticed it was a scary scarecrow. . Well the scarecrows were invented as a mean for farmers to protect their crops and garden from the harm that bird and the crows could do.