Architecture

Architecture is the art of designing, and constructing buildings.

It is the only form of art with utility purposes, besides the aesthetic ones.

This means that this type of art has some kind of purpose like living in it, working in it, sheltering from something or someone, etc... and aesthetic means the things that makes it look like art, the things that catches your attention and makes you look at the building and stare at a building.

One of the first type of architecture known to man, was "The stone henge". It is believed that it was meant to be a place to make religious acts, though nobody knows for sure what it was really intended to be.

"The stone henge" built aproximately 3500 years ago B.C

Another type of mystery architecture is the statues in The Easter island. They where biult by a tribe known as the Rapa Nui, but nobody knows why are there or how they manage to get those statues there, (they weight aproximately 12 tons and the average statue is 13 feets tall)

Moai set in the hillside of the Easter Island

Other types of architecture where the pyramids, which they were meant to be like a tomb for the pharaons and very important peoples, and these helped them get to to the destination of a religious place. They also put various things and animals and sometimes other people in there, so they would be accompained in their travel and would be able to do the trip safely.

The amazing thing about these pyramids is that they are made by big rectangules but they are perfectly shaped. Some people say that they where helped by the aliens, but there is no proven hypothesis about how they made them so perfect.

The pyramids of Egypt

Sculpture

This week in the Art Appreciation class we saw the topic Scultpture and everything that has to do with this type of art.

The earliest form of sculpture was relief, which consists of something attached to the surface.
The tools you use to make a sculpture are basically: Chisels and an Armature (a structure or skeleton).

Sculpture is created in four basic ways:
Carving.
Modeling.
Casting.
Construction.

Carving.

It´s a substractive process, this means that the material which is being made of is being removed until you get the figure you want. This type of sculpture tecnique is mainly made with wood and stone (marble).

"Lady with pitcher" by the trademark: "Famous Stone"

I liked this sculpture mainly because of the way they made the water, they maked it look like it was actually going down with a flow and everything. Also you can clearly see the hardwork and passion that they put into the flow of the water.

Modeling.

This type of tecnique requires the addition of material to the mainly scultpure, It´s mainly made of clay, wax, plaster or/and paper-mache.

"The hiperrealism" by Ron Mueck

This is one of the best sculptures that I have ever seen, mainly because it´s so well detailed that it looks like it´s alive and real! You can clearly see every detail of the face of the man, and that´s why, for me, Ron Mueck is one of the best artists of sculptures of modern times.

Casting.

A mold is used to form the material you are using (mainly molten bronze) into the desired shape. The "lost wax" method (process by which a metal sculpture is cast from an artist´s sculpture) or the "cire-perdure" are often used  for jewlery or small sculptures.

"Moses" by Michelangelo

I liked this sculpture because of all the details that Michelangelo puts to his sculptures and in these one you can see al the details of the muscles his facial expressions and the way he makes these sculpture so it looks like its alive.

Construction.

Type of tecnique that requires putting, gluing, nailing materials together. A variation of construction is "assemblage" which consists of assembling old or new found objects in a unique way.

"Vessel made of toothpicks" by Stan Munro

I really liked this sculpture, because of the incredible details that has and that it´s made of toothpicks!
Stan Munro has lots of sculptures made of toothpicks so I would really recommend look for him and see his amazing sculptures.

Always remember that the beauty of art is that what the author expreses or sees can be totaly different from what you see.

Surrealism and Pictograph language trough time.

Hi everybody! My name is Adrian and this is my blog about the art trough time.
In this blog I will be talking about the appreciation of art, and what we are seeing in my art appreciation class.
I will be posting photos and info every weekend so remeber to come by every now and then!



This past week we saw some things about the surrealism and the pictograph trough time.

Here are some pictures about surrealism that i found interesting:
I found these pictures interesting because they show what surrealism is really like. I understand surrealism as something that it´s different from the ordinary something that maybe wouldn´t happen or couldn´t exist in the real life.This is why I like so much the Surrealism and its variations...

The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dalhi

"Breakfast on the lake" by Vladimir Kush.

"The Son of Man" by Rene Magritte

"Reply to Red" by Yves Tanguy

And these are some pitures that I found interesting while browsing the internet, I found them interesting mainly because all of them are things that can only exist in our imagination and possibly could never be seen or achieved in real life:

"The Dark Side of the Moon"- Pink Floyd

"Grandma and penguin on a couch"

"Surreal World"

"Surreal Couch"

"Just another chess game"

"Knowledge paper"

"A river in my notebook"

"Legendary Artists"

"The dancing queen"

"A tunnel towards my imagination"

"A window to my soul"

"The redemption of the dark souls"

"Midnight cat"

And these are some examples of pictograph language used through time.

"Cave Paintings"

"Egyptian Pictograph"

"Aztec Calendar"

Hope you enjoyed the pictures be sure to check my blog next weekend!