Art Team 10

Monday, November 30, 2009

Our body sculpture

For our body sculpture, my team and I chose to represent the statue of Iwo Jima. We thought that it would be something nice to represent the troops who are currently over seas fighting for us. Amanda acted as the "flag" and the rest of us sorrounding her were trying to emulate the soldiers holding the flag. It came out really well, and we all agreed that our body sculpture looked the best!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Historical Art

Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, housed in the former Dominican monastery church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper in what was the order's refectory, now called the Cenacolo Vinciano, from 1495 to 1497.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a monumental granite sculpture by Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941), located within the United States Presidential Memorial that represents the first 150 years of the history of the United States of America with 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of former United States presidents (left to right): George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865).

Controversial Art

It’s controversial because it carries little use but to confuse the observer of the sculpture. David erected a stature of two naked men staring at each other, their members shift from side-to-side shooting ‘water’. The statue, appropriately titled “Piss” is located in Prague. Cerny doesn’t shy away from controversy. Cerny once suggested a masturbating woman as an installation to the top of a theater in France, complete with a water-shooting man that’ll occasionally douse the crowd.
There are reports of children mistaking the “Piss” art for some sort of fun fountain

A controversial ad by fashion designers Dolce and Gabbana suggesting gang rape has been banned from Italian publications. The advertisement is showing a woman pinned to the ground by the wrists by a bare-chested man, with other men in the background looking on. The ad "offended the dignity of the woman, in the sense that the feminine figure is shown in a degrading manner.