Artistic
Essays

Artistic Representations of the Divine and Patronage During the Renaissance:

This paper examines four works from Gardner's Art Through The Ages--Artemisia Gentileschi's "Judith and Holofernes", Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein, Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party", and Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial--in order to raise the question of the role played by gender in artistic creation and artistic representation. The paper examines each of these four works, and concludes that gender is approached in one of two ways: either the artist seeks to emphasize it as a subject, or the artist seeks to efface it in the interests of egalitarianism.

Art becomes reality. This is my desire, this is my purpose. So this is my creation, my child. The visions of primitive cave paintings dance in my vision as I put the last touches on the backdrop of this set.

Mahogany Edwardian Mantel Clock Purpose My mother’s mahogany Edwardian mantel clock, which is a real antique, exhibits the artistic purpose of aesthetic communication, as described by Sporre (2014).

The fifth century B.C.E. initiated a new philosophy in Greek art. While before this era, Greek representations of the human form tended to be static and relatively stylized (much like Egyptian art), the Classical era…

REF.: The artistic importance of "The Persistence of Memory"