ART - Essay Example

ANALYSIS, REACTION [Artist’s of Work, Year] [Medium e.g. Clay, Wood, etc Dimensions] Brigham Young Museum of Art
One of the most appealing qualities of the sculpture is its underlying symbolism hidden by the intricacies of its shape, texture, colour and design. Its theme is inspired by medieval art manifested by the elaborate geometric details. Its shape is unusually abstract. It rather depicts an animal horn with engraved archaic alphabets. Its overall exterior motif is embellished with some delicately intertwined stem-like creepers that form a mesh, giving the sculpture an entirely unique design. It is made of clay. Its texture ranges from rough to smooth to uneven. Some portions have smooth textures – those areas where the interweaving takes place; but there are also sections that appear to have coarse feel and appearance – areas near the horn-like edge right on its crest. The sculpture takes a relatively miniature scale of some symbolic gothic structures of Greece or Italy. It is quite symmetrical although there are fragments that look distorted, perhaps because of age; and the colour is much more saturated than pale.
I think that there is an original intention to express oldness or flow of time. The sculpture overall resembles a diminutive figure of an archaic piece of structure that is adhered by the wild vines or some type of lianas or trailing plants. This adherence is emphasized in order to retain the underlying meaning of this particular artwork, that is, “the fleeting of time”, regardless of the extent at which this artwork shall exist. The inscription of some unfamiliar scripts or symbols relate to the interweaving vines in that it suggests of the aimed oldness of the artwork, whether it is a representation of another piece of art of a larger scale or it is the sculpture itself.
DESCRIPTION, ANALYSIS, REACTION
Mahonri M. Young
Right to the Jaw, 1926
Bronze
35.6 x 49.1 x 24.1 cm
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Another magnificent piece of art was made by Mahonri Young. The geometry of the sculpture is rather consolidated because it uses human figures to convey its message. It is quite difficult to display an overwhelming geometrical clarity or symmetry when using human figures. The colour is highly saturated. It stresses on the boldness of colour that corresponds to the nature of the sports being depicted. Not much contrast in colour is shown on the sculpture. It is small in scale. It has a very smooth texture and is even all throughout. Perhaps, it is because of the material being used.
There is a subtle connection between the colour and the description of the sculpture. It portrays a bloody sport, which is, boxing. Its use of a duskier shade somehow unveils the concealed meaning of the artwork. Moreover, the definite muscular physique suggests not just a simple association with the bloody sport, but also, it implies a novice in skill.
The whole concept of the sculpture was already clear to me the first time I saw it. The sculpture depicts a sport that has long been banned until recently. I think the sculpture has a very good motive of conveying the message that it tries to put across. Its unique combination of tone, colour, geometry, and other elements passes a strong significance of the history of the sport. Read More