Damien Hirst
Choose one artist from the Chapter on sculpture or from the lecture. Write a reflection about the work to be presented at the beginning of the next class and include a link to an image of the work. Have a nice weekend.
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Tomb of Emperor Shih Huang Ti
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Terracotta_army_xian.jpg
The piece of sculpture I chose is from the Tomb of Emperor Shih Huang Ti. This is a burial for the first emperor of china Shih Huang Ti who ruled China in 221 BCE. This burial contains more than 6,000 lifelike sculptures of soldiers and horse of life size proportion. This burial is located near the center of Xian. I have always enjoyed this work. I still feel it’s hard to believe that sculptures of this magnitude could actually be accomplished. Just the fact that there are more than 6,000 of these life-size sculptures is simply magnificent. Before the emperor died, he tried to gather alchemist and magicians to try to create something for him to live forever. He found out that it couldn’t be done, so he called upon his geomancers to find him the best place for his burial, which was Xian. The work on the tomb called for around 6,000 slaves to go to work creating this burial for their emperor. I really like how they just didn’t make duplicates of the same sculpture. Every one of the 6,000 plus soldiers were all sculpted to be different in someway meanwhile keeping them all in the same manner as a soldier. I really enjoy looking at this tomb every time. The sheer vastness of this project is still unimaginable to me.
Sean McCreary
Media Arts and Animation
Giovanni da Bologna,
THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giovanni/bologna/rape.jpg
Matt Wider
Graphic Designer
The Rape of the Sabine Women is legendary history of Rome in which Roman men took wives for themselves from the neighboring families. In this art, rape means "kidnapping" instead of sexual violation. It represented a subject for Renaissance and post-Renaissance work of art that portrayed the determination and courage of ancient Romans with the ability to depict multiple figures, including semi-clothed women, in intensely passionate struggle.
It is a sculpture IN-The-ROUND which means it needs to be viewed from every angle to experience the work.Every angle it is viewed from changes as the sculpture appears to move in a spiral direction upward. I enjoy this piece because it catches your eye, and makes yo want to see it in person. it is over 13 ft. high, and contains beautiful detail
I enjoyed Variability and Repetition of Similar Forms 2 by Nancy Graves. I think it is a clever idea and I like how she was inspired by another sculpture. I think its interesting looking at all these bones arranged in an odd manner on a platform. If I didn't know that it was inspired by August Rodin's sculpture The Burghers of Calais, I don't think I would be able to interpret the sculpture but I think that would make it more intriguing. The bones were modeled after lifesize camel bones which is interesting aswell.
I focused on the floridian artist, Nancy Holt, Solar Rotary
Solar Rotary sits on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida. It is a configuration of eight 20-foot aluminum poles topped with an elegant swirl of more metal, called a shadow caster, set in a circular plaza. A round bench anchors its center. Eight concrete benches rim the plaza's perimeter. Four more benches are set further out, under shade trees. As the sun moves from east to west, the shadows projected by the aluminum canopy shift and vary in subtly beautiful ways. It's a quiet installation that probably wouldn't stop you in your tracks.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/08/06/Floridian/Nancy_Holt__Solar_Rot.shtml
Simone Johnson
Interior Design
The piece of sculpture that really drew me in was the sculpture found in the Tomb of Emperor Shih Huang Ti. The Tomb was discovered in 1974 with 8,000 life-sized men and horse each sculpted of 3inch thick terra-cotta clay. I find the Tomb so amazing because each soldier and horse is unique in its own way. Each soldier has their own style of dress ( the mineral paints used to cover the figures in many colors), weaponry, and facial expressions. Each sculpture found in the Tomb seems more life like then the next its almost like the Empire lined up his army and covered them in clay. It seems that the Empire took a lot of thought into this Tomb because he even had his army of soldiers grouped into military formation with crouching crossbowmen, bowmen, archers, large groups of infantry, chariots and cavalry, and final guard of heavily armored infantry, and they are all group in proper military procedures that are still followed in today’s time. Even the Tomb itself was something special because it was designed much like a city and it was huge. The more I read about these sculpture the more unique they became. Not only the only as works of art but the history and meaning behind it too.
If anyone is interested National Geographic has some great info on the history of the Tomb
http://simplykathy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/terracota-army.jpg
http://www.lmlk.com/cam/chinese-warrior.jpg
i chose rodin's the thinker. i chose this because i've always seen the statue but i've never really known anything other than its famous.Originally named The Poet, the piece was part of a commission by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris to create a monumental portal to act as the door of the museum. Rodin based his theme on The Divine Comedy of Dante and entitled the portal The Gates of Hell. Each of the statues in the piece represented one of the main characters in the epic poem. The Thinker was originally meant to depict Dante in front of the Gates of Hell, pondering his great poem. (In the final sculpture, a miniature of the statue sits atop the gates, pondering the hellish fate of those beneath him.) The sculpture is nude, as Rodin wanted a heroic figure in the tradition of Michelangelo, to represent intellect as well as poetry. its funny to find this out because i used yo see this sculpture in cartoons and somehow they always made me laugh even if it was a smirk.
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