One team on Friday Dec. 5, embarked on a journey to uncover a fragile Egyptian coffin that held the remains of a 2,500-year-old mummified 14-year-old Egyptian boy.
A team of three scientists and a conservator at Field Museum on Chicago, I.L., had taken the lid off the Egyptian coffin using specially created clamps as a cradle to lift the coffin’s lid, according to Associated Press writer Caryn Rousseau. The had uncovered the coffin in a humidity-controlled lab. To bring the coffin into the room they had used surgical gloves to lift the coffin and walk it safety to a table.
(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
The Field Museum received this artifact back in the 1920s from the Chicago Historical Society.
Once upon a time a woman named Kat O’Sullivan, lived in an ordinary 170-year-old farmhouse. O’Sullivan is not just any woman, she’s an extraordinary artistic woman. One day she decided to turn her 170-year-old farmhouse into a magical rainbow farmhouse. The house sits close along the shore. Some say if you walk deep into the woods of High Falls, New York, you might come across this magical rainbow farmhouse. When you see the house, you may feel like you’re imagining it or you’re in a Hansel and Gretel situation but you’re not. Yes, you’re eyes, they are not deceiving you at all; the house is real. This house is said to have been built back in the 1840. Click the link below to get an exclusive look at the rest of the story.
The concept of a selfie has come along way. Nov. of 2013, the word selfie was deemed the “word of the year” by the Oxford English Dictionary. The definition of a selfie is a self-portrait pictures. People usually will take selfies and then share them on social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. The funny thing is that the style of a selfie has been around for generations. Unlike the past selfies are now a big mainstream. There is a music video on YouTube called “#SELFIE,” by the Chainsmokers. Selfies are a unique form of photography because it’s a way of self-expressing yourself. You don’t have to be a photographer to take a selfie. I think capturing your self-expression is the key to taking a good selfie. Some people will take a selfie while they are injured. The art of selfies is apart of our culture that almost everyone had adapted to. People have started to use the word usies when taking a group photos. The difference between a selfie and a usies, is a selfie is by yourself while a usies is a group photo.
For this post I wanted to take everyone back in time to talk about different historical time periods. This is more of a heavy read post but I wanted to take everyone further beyond today’s modern art. I decided to analysis different art works from different periods, to help everyone to understand the ideals of ancient art.
Photo of “Discobolus of Myron” (Discus throw) Courtesy of Wikipedia
When trying to understand where some of the ideas of Ancient Greek art came from, some of ancient Greek art ideas were borrowed from Egypt and Mesopotamia. We can look at the marble copy of Myron lost bronze statue of the Discus Thrower. The marble copy is a copy of Myron’s original bronze sculpture. The discus thrower was also referred to as the Discobolus that was sculpted by sculptor Myron. The marble sculpture of the Discus Thrower is a sculpture from the Early and High Classical periods. The Classical Period (480-479 BCE) was a period where a lot of emphasize on what was tasteful and perfect. Myron really emphasizes on the physical aspects of the Olympic Discus Thrower. Myron emphasized on that three-dimensional aspect of showing a 5’ 11’’ feet tall sculpture in motion. Greeks art really emphasizes on male nudity. Their Olympic games was where athlete competed in the nude. Greek athletes of that time competed in the nude, where they showed a sense of openness but that does not apply to most cultures now. The sculpture is captured within a very chaotic and harmony style. It feels like Myron tries to emphasize of the idea of perfection. When looking at the sculpture it sort of look like a non-naturalist human pose, because of the way he’s about to throw the discus. The sculpture resembles sort of the ideal figure of a male athlete.
When we look at the Hellenistic Period (334-323 BCE), the Hellenistic Period was a period about the concepts of unprecedented realism and heightened emotions. When we think about art from the Hellenistic period we can think of the 4’ 2’’ tall bronze sculpture of the seated defeated boxer from Rome, Italy. The statue is a statue that shows an old boxer with a broken nose and bruised ears. Still within the Hellenistic Period Greek sculptors really emphasizes on the aspect of nude athletes. When you look at the structure you can draw a lot of emotions from this statue. His face is really shows a lot of emotion, the senses of being exhausted and sad. We can draw that sense of the defeat boxer not yet being defeated quite yet, he’s ready for another round. The boxer could be looking up to the heavens asking his God to for the strength to carry on. You can see the heighten realism emotional part about being battered and tired within this sculpture. He is in a sort of dazed state of mind, as if he is thinking of something.
Alan Taylor Jr 
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