Aesthetics Page 2

Joseph Cornell was born December 24th 1903, in Nyack, New York and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He lived primarily in New York City from 1929. A collage album made by surrealist Max Ernst inspired Cornell to make his signature boxes, something he began in the early 1930s. Cornell had no training for constructing…

Culture, being a way of life, also involves among many other things, how a society appropriates for itself certain conceptions regarding the distinctions of class, ethnicity, or race. This characterization of culture makes it difficult for a society to immediately integrate ‘changes’ which would involve changing previously established social conceptions. Racism is one such social…

The painting titled the Balloon was painted by Julien Dupre a French artist from Paris, France. Mr. Dupre painted The Balloon in 1886. The Balloon was painted with oil on canvas. Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other functions where sturdiness is required. It is also…

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) stands out in its location with its huge, layered rectangular layered contemporary façade.  Its walls reflect the sunny climate of the place with its beige paint and behind this façade is a lower wide building housing the extensive collection of the museum.  The museum is actually separate…

The Palazzo Del Te, consists of four long, low wings organizing a square tribunal. The earthbound quality of the house is emphasised by the usage of surprisingly big inside informations, such as tremendously weighty anchors that come into struggle with pediments and other next points, and outsize hearth. Rustication is used in about everyplace with…

The Bronze Statue of an Aristocratic Boy is a life-sized statue that was found on the eastern Mediterranean island of Rhodes. During the Augustan-era, Rhodes was considered to be an educational center for Roman noble families, and was especially known for its schools and teachers of philosophy and rhetoric. While Roman authority developed throughout the…

The recent exhibition at Frank Lloyd Gallery showcased new stoneware vessels by Peter Voulkos. These pieces exemplify the type of work that initially brought the artist renown in the 1950s. The reaction to the artwork was one of astonishment, but it differed in nature from before. Now, the astonishment stems from witnessing the artist’s effortless…

   AbstractThe portrait paintings done by Elizabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1797) in Portrait of a Young Woman and that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1859) in his Bocca Baciata both portray a woman of the 19th century.  However, reflecting over the subject, style, and technique (the use of color, strokes, and space), they reflect different backgrounds and…

The Purkersdorf Sanatorium and the Fusion of Function and Design Stark white and machine-like from a distance, the Purkersdorf Sanatorium designed by Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann emanates a feeling of sterility. However, the building also exhibits a hint of luxurious charm upon closer observation. As the first major commission for the Wiener Werkstatte company, Josef…

Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters, (1887-1948) is generally acknowledged as the twentieth century’s greatest master of collage. Just as collage is essentially the medium of irony, so Schwitters’ life is characterized by paradox and enigma. Born in Hanover, the only child of affluent parents, he was a loner in his youth, plagued by epileptic attacks, introverted and…