Nyesha Charmaine Climpson
The History Of Art
Dr. Rita Tekippe
April 15, 2016
Portrait Of A Priestess Roman art is based off of a stylistic cycle with a realistic base. Roman art has different stages which some call classicizing because it emphasizes different aspects of presentations. The word classicizing is mainly use to recognize that Roman art is based off of the Greek art style. For example both art periods have smooth lines, naturalistic forms and a lot of nude bodies. Romans seem to really care about services to their government and hard work. Because of this many citizens reflected these ideas in their artwork by making them based off of real life events and people. Most artwork would display hard work and wisdom. Roman portraits
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Both of these works of art has very curly hair. But the Flavin hair is a lot longer and has more of an Afro look with her hair going straight in the air instead of facing downward like the Priestess sculpture. But both of the artworks hair comes down to their ears. It is just that the Flavin woman hair is higher towards the top of her head. The Flavin woman head is slightly tilted to the right while the Priestess hair is standing up straight. While the Priestess seems to have acne on her face the Flavin seems to have picture perfect skin. Both of their eyebrows are very different. The Flavin woman seems to have more wild and think eyebrows that connects in the middle. While The priestess thinner eyebrows that seem more tamed and a little longer. The Priestess eyelids are wider but both of her eyes look around the same size. The Flavin woman left eye looks quite a bit bigger then the right eye. Also her eyelids seem thinner and that makes her eyes look bigger then the Priestess’s …show more content…
The priestess does not seem to have any scars on her cheeks. There also seems to be a mark on the top of the Flavin nose that is takes over the whole tip of her nose. This is the only slight color change in the whole artwork. Other then some slight acne the Priestess does not seem to have anything else on her nose. The Flavin woman has a more rounder and fuller face while The Priestess has a more slim oval face. The Flavin woman’s neck seems to be smaller and longer while the Priestess woman’s neck is smaller and thicker. The Priestess shoulders are more slanted then the Flavin woman. But the Flavin woman shoulders seem smaller. It also seems like the Flavin woman has on a more fitting shirt or dress versus the priestess loose fitting top or dress. The Flavin woman Portrait is shorter then the Priestess. The height of the Flavin woman portrait is around 2 feet. But the rest of the measurements seem the same.
These two Portraits are very similar in their style and formation. It is kind of like both of these artist followed the same instructions while creating these two artworks. Both of these arts works have the same stare. Maybe the Priestess could have been based off of the Flavin woman because of their
The text also describes that West worked more deliberately on the faces than the things around the girls; people believed that it was a sort of portrait painting. Also in the text it says that, “ Smith (1883) has suggested that Fidelia may be a portrait of a Miss Hall, whom he identifies as the model for West’s Una” (American Paintings, 209). Fidelia is wearing a long white heavy drapery with a blue undergarment. She is holding a large brown book with gold clasp that is known to be the New Testament and she is also holding the gold chalice with a skinny green snake sneaking up but shows no fear to the snake and we know this because of her facial expression, she is just staring away. The text from the Timken Museum also informs us that the New Testament and chalice she was holding are ideas from Christian values, the chalice is supposed to be holding wine and water. However, for this painting the chalice is holding the snake to resemble poison that was meant to kill St. John. Apart from Fidelia, Speranza is wearing purplish long and heavy drapery with a greenish mantle wrapped around her legs and to the back of her, she is standing a bit behind her sister as well as holding onto Fidelias’ arm with a worried face while holding her hand up on her chest on her heart. Speranza is also holding a brown anchor on her left arm that is bent. Fidelia and Speranza are
We find that, in conclusion, that these pieces are very similar in many ways. They are both originally created in the same style and time period. They are Hellenistic and dramatic, although in their own, individualistic way. Each sculpture was created in different mediums and have different stories. These are both very individualistic pieces of Greco/Roman sculpture that has influenced many artists throughout time and will
her outer appearance. Is there a similarity in the early modern English and present day
Roman portraiture is more realistic than previous idealistic Hellanistic styles. They better depict each subject’s individuality to a degree never seen before. The purpose of Roman portraiture is to address the audience and convey specific messages to them.
Just at first glance of these two vases, one can tell that they were crafted in very different styles, giving a distinct look to each. The contrast of light and dark on the two vessels are what stand out to make each piece unique. Anyone can notice that while Artemis Slaying Actaeon is mostly black, the Woman and Maid is very a luminous white.
- Priest of Troy being punished by the Gods for warning against accepting horse from the Greeks. Sea serpents attacked him and his sons. Beautiful anatomy.
If someone who had no prior knowledge about art, or the elements and principles of design, were given five seconds to look at these two paintings, they’d probably say they had almost nothing in common, other than the fact that they both feature mountains, and it’d be true for those people. But, if you are someone that does know a lot of information
difference in this painting is that it has brighter colors and takes on more of a feminine
My report is on ancient Greek art mainly sculptures and vase art I will also
an oil painting of two Fridas, one in a white dress the other in a dark green skirt with a blue and yellow striped shirt. There hearts are exposed with one vein connecting the two fridas. The white dressed fridas heat and white detail in it and, the green skirted fridas has a plan red heart. The heart one the fridas wearing the white dress has another one that goes to her lap but not around her arm, it be cut or clapped shut. The fridas in the green skirt as another vain wrapped around her left arm and fading back to the arm. There also
The Lady has a white “V” neck shaped collar while the Mona Lisa has gold trim on her square shaped collar. Mona Lisa’s dress also looks a lot more flowy and lighter while the Lady’s dress seems more layered and thicker probably due to the colder weather in northern Europe. The Lady only has a dark blue canvas for a background while the Mona Lisa has a clearly defined landscape behind her with trees, water and a dirt road. The veil that the Lady wears is made from significantly thicker cloth and wears a dark colored headband. The Mona Lisa’s veil is barely visible. The Lady has a lighter hair color and is tied up in a bun with some kind of net or cap around it with silver pins tucked into it to keep her veil in place, while Mona Lisa has her dark, wavy hair draping down her shoulders in a casual yet elegant manner. We can see the ears on the Lady, but the Mona Lisa has her ears covered by her hair. The eyes of the Lady are bright and hazel colored. Mona Lisa’s eyes are dark and you can barely see her pupils in her irises. Maybe that is how Leonardo got the effect that her eyes seem to be moving. It also appears that she has no eyebrows, or they’re severely
The swirling designs were both present, but instead the Yangshao culture made their pots more sophisticated in designs along with their use of orange, red glazes. Not only that, but there is a present similarity between the two works because in the Dancing Girl she has movement in her body language and in the Yangshao Pot the lines throughout the pot show a movement of energy as well. The differences between my two choices of artworks are in their form, purpose, and content. The Dancing Girl, for starters, comes from early Indian work and challenges society. This would be intimidating to the Chinese society because of how this figure portrays itself with the girl wearing almost no clothing and being really sensuous. This figure also contains movement that rarely is ever in Chinese works. Many artwork from early China are very sophisticated and show how structured their society was while early Indian artwork is a very much more “go with the flow” type of society. Early Chinese work would not have the same types of artwork like early India. Also, another difference is that my choice of picking the Yangshao Pot is just one of many that early China used for almost everything in their daily
The Romans have adopted many features from the Greek style of art and architecture during the third and second centuries B.C. During that time period the Romans discovered that they have taking a liking to Greek statues, which they placed in many different places. The Roman sculptors then decided to also start making statues alongside the Greeks. The statues that the Romans created were realistic looking with, sometime, unpleasant details of the body. The Greeks made statues with, what they thought of, ideal appearances in the statues figure. Sculpture was possibly considered the highest form of art by the Romans, but figure painting was very high considered as well. Very little of Roman painting has survived the tests of time.
In the art world, the medieval periods were traditionally though to be the unproductive phase of Europe between the decline of Rome and the Renaissance. Our modern feelings toward medieval art are far more appreciative. The main intent of Medieval art was to express Christianity which was also a common bond between a wide spread and diverse Europe. For this reason most of the art found from medieval times originated in monasteries and churches. European art during the Middle Ages can be divided into four periods. These four periods include Celto-Germanic art which ranged from 400 to 800 A.D. and was important in metal work. Carolingian art ranged from 750 to 987 A.D. overlapping 50 years of the Celto-Germanic period. The period of Romanesque art spanned mainly the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and was an important period for medieval architecture. Gothic art, the final period of the Middle Age art began in the Romanesque period around the twelfth century and went on until the sixteenth century. Artwork form these four periods all consist of distinct styles setting them apart from one another.
Roman artwork is extremely intricate and diverse, however, a lot of what is referred to as Roman art can better be described by the cultures it conquered. The ancient Greeks were the most influential of these cultures, from their temples and sculptures, to their reliefs and paintings. Greece was the first culture to create major programs for sculpture, painting, and architecture. Many of the first Roman artists were of Greek descent as their artwork reflects the Classical and Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece. A lot of what is considered to be Roman artwork is criticized as being mere copies of Greek artwork since they modeled their forms and styles after the Greeks, but other cultures influenced the Romans as well, mainly the Etruscans,