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rilke 10-Oct-06, 11:43	The Plastic Arts: Painting,Sculpture and Architecture Name some of your favorites plastic works of art on this category?
rilke 11-Oct-06, 00:32	The Art of Egypt Architecture and Sculpture. The Great Sphinx (Old Kingdom) Temple of Ramses II (1257 BC) (New Kingdom) Temple of Queen Hatshepsut (1450 BC NK) Death Mask of Tutankhamen
rilke 13-Oct-06, 11:42	India The Dance of Shiva (Black bronze) Shiva Nataraja "Lord of the dance" in copper. Chola period. 11th century C.E. Durga Temple (Late 7th century C.E) Emperor Janhangir seated of an Hour Glass. (painted on gold paper,Mughal school.early 17 cent. C.E.) The Ramayana: The visit of Ravana to Shita in the Ashoka Forest in Lanka. (1720 C.E.) The Five Raths (5 shrines carved on rock, Pallava period.early 7th cent.C.E.) Descent of the Ganges (Granite. Pallava period 7th cent. C.E.) Dancing Shiva (cave nr. 21.Chalukyan period. Late 6th century)
gusr 14-Oct-06, 14:57	David I've only seen pictures, but Michelangelo's sculpture of David is vividly detailed. I've read that his sketches of the human body are among the most beautiful and prized in the art world. I can see why that is true. I've seen other sculptures in person, and even in comparison to the pictures I've seen of David I can see that Michelangelo was a far superior sculptor. One day I'll see it in person. Another one that comes to mind is the largest indoor sculpture in the western world. Athena Parthenos. I go to the replica of the Parthenon in Nashville to see Athena as often as I can. I don't think she is that pretty, but something about the atmosphere in the parthenon draws me in. Athena is huge, I forgot the exact dimensions, but she holds a six foot tall statue of Nike, the goddess of victory, in the palm of her hand.
rilke 15-Oct-06, 20:33	Byzantine Churches Hagia Sophia ( at Constantinople ) St. Mark (at Venice ) St. Dimitri (at Vladimir ) Cathedral of the Annunciation ( Moscow " the Kremlin" )
rilke 18-Oct-06, 10:58	Modern Era Vietnam Memorial ( Maya Ying Lin, Washington,D.C., 1981-1983 ) Surrounded Island ( Christo, Miami Fl, 1980-1983 ) Guggenheim Museum ( Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 1943-1959 ) Three Forms ( Barbara Hepworth, Tate Gallery ,London 1935 ) Reclining Figure ( Henry Moore, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1939 ) Bird in Space ( Brancusi, NY, 1939 ) Human Concreation ( Jean Arp, NY,1935 )
rilke 22-Nov-06, 07:39	The Pantheon The Pantheon in Rome (119-125 A.D.) is one of the best preserved and most influential buildings in the history of architecture. The Pantehon is a doomed rotunda fronted with a rectangular portico. Built during the rule of Hadrian (A.D. 117-138). It is a monumental simplicity and great scale. The center of the dome is pierced dramatically by the Oculus, around opening 30 feet in diameter, which left an open sky, being the only source of light for the interior. The dome is suported by piers of inmense thickness; and there are multiple panels around the dome.
rilke 27-Nov-06, 10:30	Kaufmann House (Fallingwater) Nicknamed "Falliwnwater" was designed as a weekend retreat at Bear Run near Pittsburgh. The great and striking personality of the 20th century architecture Frank Lloyd Wright developed a new concept in architecture such as organic and natural with avision of nonsymmetrical design that interact spatially with its natural sorroundings. The Kauffmann house is perched on a rocky hillside over a small waterfall. The implied message of wright's new architecture was space, not mass a space designed to fit the life of the patron. Wright believed that people lived better when their houses allowed them easy contact with nature, and he designed buidings accordingly.
gusr 30-Nov-06, 13:40	Taliesin Frank Lloyd Wright built this house as his principal residence in Wisconsin. A crazy maid burned the house down killing his woman, his kids, and four others. This happened in 1914. The house is very beautiful, but I wonder why he rebuilt it after such tragedy. I couldn't have lived there after that.
rilke 24-Dec-06, 19:28	St.Dimitri St. Dimitri at Vladimir ( Russia) is built on the typical plan of a square enclosing a Greek cross and crowned with a single dome in a high drum. Built around 1194-1197, and the church is built on stone, a rare material in Russia,where brick, stucco and wood are more usual. St. Dimitri is a mastepiece of simplicity and compactness, with a classical monumental dignity. The ecclesiastical architecture of Medieval Russia was at first, if not actually produced by the Greeks, at least strongly under the influence of Constantinople.
rilke 31-Dec-06, 10:56	Reclining Figure Henry Moore(1898-1986), an English sculptor that uses a Human psychological aspect on his works. "The Reclining Figure" is a good example of Moore using massive shapes of the figure suggesting biomorphic forms of surrealsim. His recumbent woman is a powerful earth mother whose undulant forms and hollows suggest nurturing human energy. The holes connects one side to the other, making a three dimensional work.
rilke 22-Feb-07, 12:43	Fountain An urinal object that was purchased by the artist Duchamp in 1917 from a plumbing supply in New York. He signed the object with the pseudonym R Mutt, and entered it for an art exhibition. Duchamp defined the concept of the "ready made" of "found object"--an idea which influenced many artist since. Duchamp challenged traditional preconceptions of what art is. He said that it was not important whether or not 'Mr Mutt" had made the work with his own hands, what mattered was that he had chosen it. Therfore the creation was not important but the idea and the selection was.
rilke 04-Mar-07, 19:26	Untitled Jean Michel Basquiat's "Untitled " is a painting with crudely drawn figures, handwritten phrases mixed on a multi-coloured background. The primitive and childlike images reflects Basquiat link with grafiti art. The painting seems to be a distillation of a New York underworld of the artist's roots, evoking its multi ethnic, hip hop culture and showing a fast moving, chaotiic reality of the city's street life through disconected images and writen fragments. Basquiat was a part of a group of graffiti artists.His international reputation was rapidly established. He died from drugs overdose at the age of 26.
rilke 17-Mar-07, 09:34	Queen Nerfertiti A famous painted limestone, bust of Akhenaton, queen Nerfertiti. It is the time of change in Egypt art; a break of a long tradition. It happens in the 14th century, the emperor Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV) later known as Akhenaton, proclaimed the religion Aton, the universal and only god of the sun. The bust of Queen Nerfertiti (1360 B.C) has a sensitivity and delicacy of curving contour. It has a serpentine neck style, with elegance and beauty. A masterpiece of cosmetic art, we might say.
rilke 28-May-07, 09:31	Sculpture in Germany: Late Gothic In the half century before the Reformationn, the German-speaking lands produced remarkable suclpture in considerable quantity. Despite of the awarness of the italian masters, sculpture north of the Alps always preserved flavour, and the influence of Claus Sluter was enduring. Sculpture was employed in the altarpieces, conceivng the tradition of late gothic of rare free standings figures, with the exception of the Virgin and Child. Nicolaus Gerhaerts from Netherlands, whose great wsork of "Self Portrait" in stone had a wide influence on German sculptors of the next generation. Michael Pacher produced one of the earliest survivng and best preserved late Gothic altarpieces. His lavish use of gold is unsual. Pacher also painted. Veit Stoss left Nuremberg in 1477 and for 20 years worked in Poland, where his principal commision was the altarpiece at St. Mary's, Cracow. The stonecarver Adam Kraft (1460-1508) produced vividly naturalistic figures still in recognizably Gothic context, as in the Tabernacle at St Lorenz in Numerberg. More secular are the works of Sebastian Loscher (1480-1548), with no religious connotaion. Conrad Meit, who came from the Middel Rhine. produced small bronze and alabaster figures. The full adoption of Italian principles can be seen in the work of Peter Flotner (1495-1546). His msteprece is the bronze Apollo Fountain (1532), very classical and pure, delicate and superbly balanced and finished form contrasting wit the elaborate movement detail in the pedestal.
rilke 21-Aug-07, 10:24	The Death of Marat David's painting in the 1780's was the distilled essence of Neoclassicism but did not last long. The outbreak of the french Revolution in 1789 at first provided an ideal climate of opinion; David was active in politics and his art entirely in key with events. "The death of Marat",1793, is virtually a canonization of the great revolutionary ideals. Marat was assassinated in his bath by Charlotte Corday; he suffered from a skin disease, soothed by its medical waters, ans she murdered him while he was writing his radical pamphlets. David has recosntructed the scene, but he goes with delicate and tender tones; it is still tragic and with all the emotive force of a Revolutionary slogan.
rilke 28-Jun-08, 07:30	Gipsies and Sunflowers Otto Mueller was part of the German movement formed in 1905, under the name of Die Brucke (The Bridge). The initiative in the formation of the group was taken by Ernest Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938). The German expressionism had characteristics of religious spirit of the Middle Ages, and psychological ,mystical and isolation of the modern world. Mueller on this painting, has the same religious touch as Gaugin masterpiece painting from his Tahiti period of painting; with two natives standing and the other one kneeling to a gigantic yellow sunflower. The colors are warm and has a spirit of tranquility . This Christian mysticism only serve the obscure identity of the visuals modes of modern expression.
rilke 08-Nov-08, 09:24	Landscape with a Sacrifice to Apollo This magnificent, spacious scene in an example of Classical landscape painting at its best. A painting by Claude Lorraine, and he carefully constructed this painting with the use of balance of strong horizontals and verticals, where areas of light and shade help to move the viewer's eye across and into the scene. Claude Lorraine has captured the solemn grandeur of the Roman countryside. The delicate atmosphere is developed from a careful colour-range of greens, blues and browns. The figures, representing a scene from Classical mythology where Psyche's father makes a sacrifice to invoke Apollo's help in finding a husband. Turner loved this painting saying it is "beyond the power of imitation."
rilke 03-Apr-09, 11:39	Gattamelata, by Donatello The Equestrian monument of Gattamelata (1444-53). Bronze on marble plinth, height of statue : 340 cm. Padua, Piazza del Santo. Gattamelata ("honeyed cat") was the the condottiere (mercenary commander) of the Venetian army.
rilke 13-Aug-20, 18:24	The Kiss 1882. A marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin. The embracing couple is part of the bronze portal The Gates of Hell.
rilke 11-Oct-20, 00:12	The Cathedral By Rodin. 1908. Two right hands from different figures intertwined. Medium: cast in stone originally. Later editions were cast in bronze.
rilke 22-Oct-20, 17:18	Taj Mahal 1635 -52. At Agra (India) Under the Mughal architecture.
rilke 23-Oct-20, 10:10	St. Paul Cathedral London. Destroyed by the fire in 1666. Rebuilt began in 17 century.
rilke 05-Nov-20, 16:48	Milan Cathedral 1386 - 1986 6 centuries to complete the last details of the Cathedral. Largest Church in Italy.
rilke 18-Dec-20, 10:11	The Great Wave 1829-1833 Edo period (Japan) Woodblock. Hokusai famous Wave painting is part of a series of 36 views of Mount Fuji and the Wave off Kanagawa. Van Gogh got an inspiration of these woodblocks works for his future paintings.
rilke 08-Feb-21, 11:25	The Death of Socrates 1787 Oil in cavas. Painter: David. The description of Socrates' death . Lament and crying among his followers.
rilke 29-May-21, 17:06	The Black Cross 1924. By Malevich. Period : Supremacist. Free of political and social contents. Malevich emphasizes on line, shapes and color.

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