Homework#2

The Immature Conception
Guido Reni
Italian Bologna 1627

The artist of this painting is attempting to bear witness of the Virgin Mary
Mary is being viewed as a saint, two angels and people surrounding her appearing as clouds are looking at her angelically.
Oil on canvas
It tells the story of how Mary was viewed during that time period.
It was creative how the clouds weren't just clouds they were also heads of people.

The Vine 1921,1923,1924
Hariet Whitney Frishmuth

The artist bare witness to the period where women danced in great numbers
The work was sculptured out if bronze
The artist communicates the work visually by showing the elegance of dancing
The artist sculptures the model dancing stretching upward and outward in imitation of a living vine.

The Vine most directly relates to ideas of beauty because it is a sculpture of a nude woman who shows elegance in dancing and that is the ideal beauty. The artist uses the elements scale and proportion and rhythm. The artist sculptured it life size that it will appear more real, almost as if the sculpture was dancing in front of you.

The Vine represents the cultural standards of Beauty because it is a nude women with the ideal body and it is pleasing to the eye. Th artist expresses physical beauty. It is an intellectualized version of beauty because the way the sculptured was mask was so eloquently
and it has a flow which makes it calm.

If I were to remake the sculpture I would not make that much of a difference because my idea of beauty is a thing or person that is capturing to the eye and this sculpture is very eye capturing.