"Within the same generation as the Expressionist [Alice] Neel was the rather Post-Impressionist Fairfield Porter, who painted radiant, grandly composed intimist pictures that, albeit thoroughly American, seem aesthetically and spiritually at...
From the "Elements of Architecture: Mastaba to Pyramid" section of the "Art of Ancient Egypt" chapter (Chapter 3). Components highlighted are: mastaba (chapel, offering table, serdab with statue of ka, underground burial...
Architecture; Temples; Religious facilities; Buildings; Monuments; Gods; Architectural elements; Religious architectural elements; Structural elements; Ceremonial rooms; Halls; Columns; Courtyards; Lakes & ponds; Bodies of water; Pylons...
Includes: hypostyle hall; standing obelisk; sanctuary; [6] courts; festival temple of Tuthmose III; scarab; sacred lake; sed festival temple of Amenhotep III; Temple of Khonsu; [2] avenues of ram-headed sphinxes; avenue of human-headed sphinxes;...
"While producing works like this, Turrell also embarked on a major project in 1972 which involved purchasing, and subsequently modifying, an extinct volcanic crater located in northern Arizona. This 'Roden Crater' project has connections with...
This mosaic "constituted the horizontal bar of the T-form design of a dining room, or hall (triclinium), facing the guests as they entered." (Excerpt, p. 12)
"To the left Pasiphae, wife of the king Minos of Crete, is shown seated on a low chair with [a] back and one armrest. She is draped in a tunic falling to her feet. The garment leaves the right part of her upper body naked and is held by a gold...
Paintings; Allusions; Anti-Americanism; Politics & government; Political issues; Capitalism; Imperialism; Wealth; Corruption; Poverty; Emigration & immigration; Social classes; Economic & social conditions; Domestic life; Child labor;...
"This enormous, collage-like painting is crammed with anti-American allusions. An electric chair sits on the plinth at the top center (the Rosenbergs were electrocuted as Russian spies in 1953). A GI nonchalantly reads a pornographic magazine....
"Daedalus, identified by an inscription, is shown with his legs wide apart with the left foot [taking] a step in the same direction. He is dressed in a short tunic held over his left shoulder with a large clasp. The garment is adorned with...
This mosaic "decorated the vertical bar of the T-form figured composition of the dining room floor to which the mosaic of Pasiphae and Daedalus belonged. The thick swastika-meander band in perspective at the top was the partition between the...
