Chloe DeHerrera

      Daguerre’s process rapidly spread through the world around 1840ish. The first daguerreotypes were announced in the United States that way they were made on September 16, 1839. The exposures were first of excessive length and it sometimes took over an hour to develop. Having the lengthy exposures and moving objects cannot be recorded this also made taking portraits impractical. Antoine Claudet was responsible for numerous improvements in photography this included the discovery of red light and how it wasn’t as effective as people thought it was. The improvements that have been made in the lenses and sensitizing techniques reduced exposure times to approximately 20 to 40 seconds. Daguerreotyping eventually became a flourishing industry.      Within photography the naturalism was a large part produced in the movement for paintings abstraction. The painters abandoned realism in the photography area because of the maintained importance of their art. This b...

           To start off with the background of The Virgin of Macana, it was created in the 18th century which was 1680. In the painting, Mary is a statue, she is bleeding from the forehead. She is wearing a crown and is holding a Macana, which is a wooden weapon embedded with obsidian blades commonly used by the Nahua people of central Mexico.  The Virgin of the Macana , second half of the 18th century, oil on canvas (History Collections New Mexico History Museum)           The Virgin of Macana is telling a story of the fight of the Spaniards and the Puebloians, during the Pueblo revolution in 1680. In the middle right side of the painting it shows the natives attacking the statue, I believe is historically in accurate because historians have questioned, "why are the pueblo people shown as violent, barbaric aggressors in the painting?" This shows that it is biased towards the Spaniards. The painting is intended to convey t...

Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi: Mangaaka) , mid to late nineteenth century, wood, paint, metal, resin, ceramic, 46 7/16″ / 118 cm high, Democratic Republic of Congo (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)            The power figure was made in the mid 19th to the 20th century, by the Congo peoples. It was made of wood, pigment, nails, cloth, beads, shells, arrows, leather, nuts, and twine. Nkisi refers to a spirit, but more specifically medicine that is used by a healer to help someone, herbs and supplements. A Nganga is a ritual specialist who use the Nkisi around the 19th century. In the figure there is a space for holding the medicine, which is called a Mooyo, the belly. Mooyo is the spiritual center of the Nkisi figure, where medicine is placed. As the different mixtures of healing potions were made they were placed in the figure and sealed up. The figure was used to heal the client in the way of the help needed. It was also used to record agreements or con...

  To start off I have chosen to compare "I ndrajit meets with Ravana, then binds Rama and Laksmana with magic serpents; Sita is told they are dead " and "Utagawa Kunisada." To start off with a little information about the artworks, Indrajit is a scene that is a part of a larger story, the Ramayana. The story focuses on the dispute of good and evil. The characters in the scene experience love, loss, loyalty, conflict, fear, and friendship. These encounters highlight one’s meaning. Utagawa is a picture, there is a woman wearing a kimono, whom is standing by a vacant carriage. Her kimono is green that matches the carriage symbolizing a connection. Her robe and headscarf indicate it is cold outside. The whole artwork represents modern beauties.  “Indrajit meets with Ravana, then binds Rama and Laksmana with magic serpents; Sita is told they are dead,” folio from the  Yuddha Kanda  of the  Ramayana , by Sahib Din, Udaipur, c. 1650-52, watercolor on paper, approximate...

             The Spanish renaissance refers to a movement in Spain. This line materialize from the Italian Renaissance during the 14th century which spread to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries. The Spanish empire extended throughout Western Europe. Italian artist ideas in motif‘s were definitely noticeable in Spanish paintings and sculptures. The Renaissance in Spain, The Morata Master          Alonso Berruguete was the first sculptor of the renaissance of Spain. He created sculptures from painted wood that portrays emotion through their dramatic positioning such as poses, gestures, and even facial expressions. He was the creator of the “Retablo” which is an altarpiece. This particular piece included the nativity, the annunciation, the Madonna and Child, the coronation of the virgin, the adoration  of the Magi, and the resurrection. All of these scenes were focused on the life of Christ. It was devoted to the V...

     My name is Chloe DeHerrera. My major is art and a minor in mass com. I plan on using my major to further my career in photography. I plan on opening a studio in the near  future. My hobby is photography, I love taking pictures. Another one of my hobbies is to play with my dog and taking her on walks (her name is Trixie). I took History of Art I so I am familiar with the process of this course. I don't have a favorite artist at the moment. 

The Great Serpent Mound; Adams County   The Mound is found in ancient culture in Adams County Ohio. It a lso is the largest serpent figure in the world.  There were lots of mountains made by ancient Native American cultures.   They were made in the valleys of Mississippi, Ohio, Illinois, and the Missouri rivers thousands of years ago. It ranges from one to three feet in height depending on where you're standing and t he mound is 1300 feet long. T he mound is both architectural and sculptural and was erected by settled peoples who grew maize, beans, and squash.  The shape of the serpent is unique, it is slightly Crescent shaped. The head is set in the East and tail set in the West with seven curves within the body of the snake.   Within the body of the snake, it has Oval shaped large eyes.   The native cultures in North and Central America believe that supernatural powers to snakes and reptiles are represented by spiritual practices. T he native people of Oh...

     The Nasca Geoglyphs are l ocated in the desert on the coast of Peru.  T hey are the largest drawings in the world, which is very impressive. They referred as Nasca lines. T heir designs formed on the earth.  T hey can be constructed from strong natural material for example stone that is a large scale.  T he Hummingbird measures just over 300 feet in length this is the most famous nasca geoglyphs.  T here are other geoglyphs such as mammals’, birds, and insects. They are a monkey, killer whale, spider and a Condor. There are plants and geometric shapes that have been recorded also abstract patterns and intersecting lines known as pampa. This approximately covers 200 square miles near the foothills of the Andres mountains.  Humming Bird      I n my last blog post I did the Paracas textiles and they were found in the exact same area, which is also very interesting. The zoomorphic geoglyphs are the oldest and most esteemed....

     The Paracas Textiles w ere found in necropolis in Peru in the 1920s.   T he necropolis held 420 bodies that had been mummified and wrapped in embroidered textiles of the Paracas culture in 200 to 300 BCE. The cloth as well as the dimensional border were created using different techniques both with perfect reverse ability.  The textile contains a vast amount of information about the people who lived in ancient Peru it has a great age and delicacy, the colors are brilliant, and it has lots of tiny details amazingly intact. Textile            E xcept for three border figures these figures are duplicated on the back it would be as if you were flipping the image in a mirror. They appear in back view on one side of the cloth therefore making sure there is a front and back to the textile.  I t is a design of 32 geometric faces, and it's created by warp wrapping this is a technique with colored fleece and is wound a...

       Lydenburg Heads were c reated 500 A.D.    They were created and found in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa.  They are currently in Iziko South Africa Museum, Cape Town.  They were hollow heads awarded to President Mbeki.  The 7 heads were founded by Karl von Bezing.     The group of seven earthenware heads were named after the site where they were discovered in east Transvaal of South Africa. R adiocarbon dating of charcoal samples from excavation of this site has established that the heads were buried there around 500 A.D. This makes them the oldest Iron Age African artworks from below the equator. T he reconstructed heads are not identical at all.  2 largest heads      T hey also share a number of characteristics such as, s carification (scars) on the forehead, the temples, and between the eyes. T he modeled strips of clay form the thinly open over eyes,    also showing detail on the mou...

The Great Enclosure     The Great Zimbabwe Enclosure was completed approximately 1450. I t was a wall structure punctuated with turrets and monoliths to form the earlier Hill Ruin. Turrets were a small tower on top of a larger tower. A monolith was a single piece of stone standing upright and usually large, it served as a  monument  or a pillar. T here is a massive outer wall that is 32 feet high. On the  inside the enclosure is smaller, the walls are parallel to the exterior wall creating a tight passageway leading to large towers.  There are three sections the first is the Hill complex, the second is the Great Enclosure which is obviously the most exciting, and the last is the Valley ruins.   Great Enclosure Map        Starting with the first section the Hill complex, it is a structural ruins that sits at the top of the steepest Hill of the site. It is a religious center and the oldest part of great Zimbabwe it was built around 90...

    Jomon    means chord pattern in  Japanese. T his represents a technique of decorating jomon period pottery. The    women of the Jomon period make the pots by hand. Th ey would build vessels from the bottom from wet coils of wet clay, then mix other materials such as Mica and crushed shells to make the pots. M ica is a mineral dust, used to make cement, makeup, wallpaper,  and  so much more. N ext they smooth out the inside and outside of the pots then decorated with geometric patterns.   The designs were made by pressing cord on the soft surface of the clay. T hey were left out to dry before being put into the fire at a low temperature just reaching the 900 degrees Celsius in an outdoor fire pit. T hese represented a more complex decoration and design of geometric patterns. They were made with designs  as well as colored with natural pigments. T hese are remarkable skills in aesthetic sense of the people who produced them. I t a...