Hercules & Atlas

I'm sure everyone of us grow up with listening Greek Mythology, like the recent movie making Percy Jackson and the Lighting Theif.

The following piece of art work title Hercules & Atlas. I'm not going to elaborate who is Hercules and how is Atlas. Just a brief story how these 2 Greek mythology comes together.

One of the Twelve Labors of the hero Hercules was to fetch some of the golden apples which grow in Hera's garden, tended by Atlas' daughters, the Hesperides, and guarded by the dragon Ladon. Heracles went to Atlas and offered to hold up the heavens while Atlas got the apples from his daughters.

Upon his return with the apples, however, Atlas attempted to trick Heracles into carrying the sky permanently by offering to deliver the apples himself. Heracles, suspecting Atlas did not intend to return, pretended to agree to Atlas' offer, asking only that Atlas take the sky again for a few minutes so Heracles could rearrange his cloak as padding on his shoulders. When Atlas set down the apples and took the heavens upon his shoulders again, Heracles took the apples and ran away. (source - Wikepedia)

If you see carefully, the position of Hercules and Atlas with certain angle so salah lor! You'll get what I meant once you see below pictures.

Art Work Title: Hercules & Atlas

Year: 1668

Artist: Michel Anguier (1612-1686)

Material: Bronze

nice buble butt!

Check out the following picture with different angle....so salah kan? and so HOT!!!

And of course with camera in my hand, how can a cute guy escape from my snap?? While I admiring this sculpture, got 1 angmoh teenage also sibuk take picture of this sculpture statue. See cute or not??

The Spine and Tooth of Santo Guerro, 2007

Art title: The Spine and Tooth of Santo Guerro, 2007

Artist: Al Farrow (b. 1943)

Material: Guns, bullets, shot, steel, glass, tooth, bone and 15th century fabric

Again, this is an art post for the art work I saw when I visited de Young Art Museum in San Francisco. You'll marvel the material used. Below is the text explanations I copy from the museum.

The Spine and Tooth of Santo Guerro replicates elements from several medieval European cathedrals and is fabricated from more than two hundred deconstructed guns, as well as thousand of bullets and shot. Farrow’s use of guns and ammunition comments on the historical connection between religions intolerance and warfare – particularly during the medieval Crusades, which sanctioned the violent conquest of the Holy Land. Farrow believes that, historically, all of the world’s major religions have undermined their moral authority by claiming that “God is on our side” when waging war.

Farrow’s cathedral is transformed into a reliquary by the inclusion of a human spine in the nave and a human tooth over the transept door – both ostensibly belong to the fictitious Santo Guerro (“Saint War”). The spine, mounted for display on ta platform covered with 15th century silk, recalls that many European cathedrals were build with funds derived from the viewing of relics.

Farrow’s bone-filled reliquaries evoke the Catholics Church’s core doctrines of mortality and immortality, and thus serve as traditional “vanitas” symbols illustrating the futility of most human endeavors – even the building of great cathedrals – and the inevitability of death. However, they also suggest that it is neither religion nor the human soul that is eternal, but rather the human instinct to make war.

the tooth

And the grand finale, spinal cord.

Floating Charoal

This is another marvellous pierce of art work in de Young Art Museum.

I don't have any words to describe. Just admired the art work lah..

2nd US Visit - Part II, de Young Art Museum Art Work

First destination after I arrive in SFO airport was Golden Gate Park, mainly de Young Art Museum. I love art museum very much! de Young Art Museum can be consider the first art museum that I visit. This museum stored mainly American artists' masterpiece.
The first piece of fine art I saw was wire sculptures.

Some text to summary the wire sculpture works by the artist Ruth Asawa
"This installation of fifteenth metal sculptures offers on overview of San Francisco artist Ruth Asawa's signature vocabulary based on the visual possibilities of wire."
Just ignore the feizai in the picture and and see the wire sculpture and the shadow behind it, I know the feizai is quite sore to your eye, but please bear with it lah harr..

Next is a fashion couture masterpiece, title Soundsuit by Nick Cave.

Who can carry it and walk in catwalk??

Don't you think below piece of artwork simply marvellous?? Its name is Landscape by Chiura Obata 18855-1975 using ink and colour on silk.

And they have hunk picture also!! and how could I miss the chance to camwhore with picture of a hunk lehh??

2 great art works that I just stood there and appreciate for 15 minutes.....arr..how I wish I can spend time longer. The 1st 1 is Genius Calling Forth the Fine Arts to Adorn Manufactures and Commerce, the 2nd pieces is named Cupid Stung by a Bee. Both by Benjamin West (1738-1820)

Next will be marble sculpture. I can't get enough of them!! There are mainly 2 marble sculptures that I like most in de Young Art Museum. The first 1 no information on it, the 2nd is Dalilah by William Wetmore Story

1st sculpture

Then the 2nd, Dalilah

When talk about sculpture, how can someone miss out Diana the godess of hunting leh?
This 1 is by Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) in 1889. Isn't the artwork looks alive?

That's all for now, more art work to come.