Show by Ben Butler highlights delicate and intricate line drawings, and one dominate sculpture
An art exhibition by artist Ben Butler named Diverse Dimensions opened from October 13 to November 3, at OSU’s Fairbanks Hall Main Gallery.
OSU’s Fairbanks Hall is placing the combination art solo of black and white drawings, and one dominate sculpture. The invention series includes six pieces of black and white drawings, with black ink on white sketch paper. The sculpture, Rounds, was built with yellow cedar shingles over the past few years. Each drawings presented the complexity of molecular-like, and cellular-like system. Each part of the three dimensional sculpture was followed in previous component to shaped as an integrity round. All of the
Three dimensional art is defined as media which “occupies space, defined through the dimensions of height, width and depth” (SAYLOR). These art works can be geometric or organic in nature (NORTON). Three dimensional art forms include sculptures, crafts and architecture. Three dimensional art form is fascinating to me because of the amount of realism and beauty it embodies, as well as for its functional and aesthetic value. For this assignment, I chose two beautiful pieces that illustrated the characteristic of three dimensional art and the processes it took to produce them. The first art work I want to analyze is a sculpture done by an Iraqi artist from Kalhu (modern day Nimrud) entitled, “Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions” (Sayre, 420).
Eck, Susan. "The Sculpture Plan by Karl Bitter, Director of Sculpture." Pan American Exposition: Buffalo 1901. (http://panam1901.bfn.org/documents/sculptureplan.html).
Most of the pieces had a variety of different colors that created a contrasting pattern. Each of the pieces was very unique, and each had different characteristics. Before taking art 160 I would have never thought that art could be made from PVC foam. When I looked at the pieces closely I was able to notice that they were made in individual pieces then put together. Some were composed of large pieces of PVC foam put together and some were made up of smaller pieces of PVC foam. Out of nine piec...
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People come to being on the road for countless reasons and though there is no real certainty on the road, there are two things that are certain, the road stands in opposition to home and your race and ethnicity plays a major role on the trajectory and the way others treat you on the journey. African Americans have an especially strong connection to road narratives. This is because, from the beginning, the race’s presence in America was brought by forcing them on to the road against their will. It is for this reason that there are countless narratives, fictional and non-fictional, of black peoples on the road. For Birdie Lee, a literary character, the beginning of the road marks the end of her comfortable home life and the beginning of her racial
Black-figure painting was first established in Corinth, c 700 BCE then Athens was influenced by the technique and got control over it (Cartwright, 2012). The entire process was made out of iron clay found in the area mixed with potash pigment, water and leave it evaporate under the sun until it’s thick and settle. Move on to wedging process where human used energy to make the clay combine together and create the smoothness. The forms of potter are made on the potter wheel and are control by human’s hands, which is fascinating because people will have respect toward a finished product. After shaping the entire form, it’s then bake inside a kiln until it turns black (Britannica, 2014). Black-figure painting usually presents a storytelling by depicting animals or people in silhouette and sometime th...
An artwork that stood out in the exhibition was School of Beauty, School of Culture (2012) . It portrays women and two children standing in a beauty salon and school with green walls and a red floor. The walls have posters promoting black beauty with one that reads, “it’s your hair” and under this statement are the words love, dark and lovely. There are mirrors against the wall and in the reflection a camera flash is shown from a person who is taking a picture of those in the salon. Red, black, and green, the colors of the Afro-American flag, border the top of the wall, symbolizing the black power movement . The focal point of this piece is a woman who stands in the center, posing for the person taking a picture. To her right, towards the floor, is a “floating” head of a white woman which is compressed and 2-dimensional. This is a tribute to Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors (1533) because in Holbein’s piece, there is a 2-dimensional skull painted in the same fashion. Just how the skull in The Ambassadors is a reminder of death, the head in Marshall’s
With works in every known medium, from every part of the world, throughout all points in history, exploring the vast collection of the Museum of Modern Art was an overwhelming experience. The objects in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts are an important historical collection, reflecting the development of a number of art forms in Western Europe. The department's holdings covered sculpture in many sizes, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, jewelry, and tapestries. The gallery attracted my appreciation of the realistic qualities of the human body often portrayed in sculpture.
shown plainly to be part of a cyclic design. The famous motif which dominates the first
Butler was one of many to be accused of a crime he didn’t commit. In 1993, a woman got
South University Online. (2013). HUM 1002: History of Art from the Middle Ages to Modern Times: Week 1: Elements of Design. Retrieved from myeclassonline.com
A man of innovation, style, and creator of labyrinthine masterpieces in all media, Alphonse Mucha is often named the greatest and most influential Czech artists. As one of the fathers of Art Nouveau, Mucha developed a reputation with his posters, architecture, jewelry and sculpture that had never been seen before; a complex weaving of lines and pastel colors featuring voluptuous women and a harmony that can only be described as: Mucha style. His graphic designs and posters often hold the limelight of Mucha’s ability, but the complexity of his imagination and inspiration show another deep dimension behind the man, his visions, and his beliefs in art, as well as the world.
In that period, many artists made contour line drawings on paper, but Calder was the first to use wire to create three-dimensional “drawing” of people, animals, and objects. The creativity he had to create a famous genre of sculpture, and be an important artist in the world history. The influence in Calder’s mobile can be seen in the work of abstract expressionists Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and the later Jackson Pollock
Black-figure pottery was a popular style from 620-480 BCE. Athens soon became the main spot for Greek pottery. The black-figure style had “black figures painted on a light inset background panel, while the surrounding vase surface is a deep, lustrous black” (“Greek Pottery”). The Black-figure style was made by applying a clay slip to the outside of the vessel. The vessel was then fired in an oxidation kiln which turns the slip red. With no oxygen the clay turns black. Next the potters trim and cut lines into the slip or add white and purple mixtures of clay and pigment to depict the details. During this period, painters and the potters started signing their work. Famous black-figure potters/painters were Sophilos, Exekias, the Amasis Painter, Kleitias, Andokides, Ergotimos, Lydos, Euthymides, and Nearchos. Kleitias is known for painting over two hundred figures in six friezes in the François Vase. Exekias an Attic painter is known for being master of technique. The Amasis Painter signed his name on twelve works all recognizably painted by the same
Roberts, D. (2005). Book Review: The Total Work of Art. Thesis Eleven , 83, 104-121.