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Why do people make art?

569920964 — 2024-07-16 08:47:55 UTC

People make art because they want to seek spiritual protection even after they die. The piece Cavalryman and saddled horse is located in the a Chinese emperor's tomb. Near the emperor's tomb complex, there are pits that contain over thousands of terracotta warriors like the one in the art piece. The emperor hired artists to create soldiers for his tomb. The terracotta warriors, including the art piece I chose, that were created are meant to be individualized pieces of art. ach terracotta created was replicated to each individual person used for the emperor because he wanted to be protected by the me in his army even in the afterlife. The artwork is a result of an emperor who wanted to be protected in the afterlife. The reason that the artistic style of the piece is so naturalistic is because the emperor wanted the soldiers to resemble the real-life soldiers he had.

Why do people make art

569920964 — 2024-07-16 08:48:29 UTC

The terra-cotta of Haniwa Figure of Falconer main function was to drain water from the rain so that when the emperor was buried the stone objects would be buried with them and continue on into the afterlife. Also the Haniwa figures were faced outward towards the realm of the living to protect the tomb of which it was placed at.

Abstract

569920964 — 2024-07-16 08:49:42 UTC

Abstract art refers to the art that the artistic image deviates greatly from or completely abandons the appearance of natural objects. Abstract art completely excludes the identifiability of realistic images, but purely appeals to artistic language and means themselves.

Running Fence

569920964 — 2024-07-16 08:50:14 UTC

Both Christo and Jean Claude spent decades proposing and constructing conceptual work that was also a physical statement. An enormous project that was accomplished through their collaborative work is Running Fence 1972-76. The work made a white line through the landscape; it was made of poles and steel cable, white cloth hung from the cable. The piece stretched for 24.5 miles through Marin County, California. The scale of the work was as monumental as any human project could be. The installation was temporary.

Viet Nam Veteran's Memorial 1981

569920964 — 2024-07-16 08:51:09 UTC

The work of Maya Lin in her design of the Viet Nam Veteran's Memorial 1981 for the national site in Washington DC, was ground breaking. She chose polished black granite rather than the more usual white marble or bronze. The wall reflects the faces of

the people who visit the wall as they look at the names, binding them to their lost friends or family or giving them a moment to think about how their actions or beliefs might contribute to war and its ultimate price of human lives.

Earth art

569920964 — 2024-07-17 01:04:07 UTC

Earth art, also known as "landscape art" and "earthwork", is a visual art form with artistic integrity created by artists taking nature as the creative medium and organically combining art with nature

Serpent Mound

569920964 — 2024-07-17 01:05:20 UTC

The Serpent Mound in Ohio is an earthwork made in the 11 Century. The aerial photograph shows the contemporary path that surrounds the mounded earth. Artifacts have been found in and by such mounds. It is speculated that these mounds were built by the earliest people in the continental United States.

Hummingbird

569920964 — 2024-07-17 01:07:02 UTC

Another sample of human manipulation of the landscape is the earth drawings on the Nazca Plain in Peru. One of several discovered earth drawing is called Hummingbird from 200 BCE. Some of these drawings are larger than 750 feet. The Hummingbird drawing was created by the removal of the red stone and dirt that covers the area. The earth below the red layer is a lighter color.

Landscape

569920964 — 2024-07-17 01:27:33 UTC

Landscape painting is a painting with the theme of natural landscape, village and city. Landscape, fields, trees, flowers and buildings are the main contents.

Niagara

569920964 — 2024-07-17 01:31:26 UTC

Frederick Edwin Church’s Niagara depicts that the water roils and bubbles just before it drops, thunderously over the edge of the land. There are far distant clouds and a rainbow or “sun dog” to the left of the painting. The clouds to the right are silhouetted and dark, they look heavy like solid matter rather than gaseous.

Qingbian Mountain

569920964 — 2024-07-17 01:32:22 UTC

Dong Qichang’s Qingbian Mountain 1617 shows the tree at the bottom of the painting can seem to support the entire land mass. Though the mountaintop in the distance has the same weight of line and value as the information lower down the painting, the mist or fog cuts through the painting of the lines so that we are given the illusion of distance.

Portrait

569920964 — 2024-07-17 01:34:04 UTC

Portrait is an artistic genre that depicts specific characters or people, and conveys individual resemblance by depicting certain images.

Mona Lisa

569920964 — 2024-07-17 01:37:41 UTC

Mona Lisa’s famous portrait with its enigmatic smile is one of the Renaissance inventor and painter, Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works. The portrait has a mysterious sense about it partly because the face and hands have been painted with more detail and form than the landscape or even the clothed body of the woman. Leonardo was able to create deep space by varying the way different areas were painted. The face is extremely dimensional with the use of chiaroscuro.

Woman I

569920964 — 2024-07-17 01:40:24 UTC

Willem de Kooning’s paintings in his Woman Series are powerful, strong, and disturbing images of women. The heads or faces have been painted, scraped and repainted to create ferocious expression. Bared teeth and the wild eyes can make the viewer uncomfortable.