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narrator the quest for immortality the desire to extend th certainties of life beyond the grave is as old as egypt itself. The pyramids at giza, the wonders of the ancient world, were not just designed as the pharaohs last restingplace. They were the first stop on a long nights journey to everlasting life. By 1550 bc, power had shifted to a n kingdom 500 miles south in the ancient city of thebes, now called luxor. To the west, in the hills beyond the niles west bank, the royal tombs of the valley of the kings were cut into limestone cliffs. Their interiors are richly decorated with hieroglyphs and paintings signs and symbols that detail the necessary steps to attain immortality. Egypts power and the grandeur that came with it were wellestablished by 2500 bc when the Great Pyramids at giza were built. The sphinx was a philosophy of government set in stone. It depicted the king as fearless, cunning and brave as the lion. And as crucial to egypt as the nile itself. The king was not just a
Their interiors are richly decorated with hieroglyphs and paintings signs and symbols that detail the necessary steps to attain immortality. Egypts power and the grandeur that came with it were wellestablished by 2500 bc when the Great Pyramids at giza were built. The sphinx was a philosophy of government set in stone. It depicted the king as fearless, cunning and brave as the lion. And as crucial to egypt as the nile itself. The king was not just a political leader but a religious leader too. In the minds of the ancient egyptians, the pharaohs power and authority as a king stretched far beyond the boundaries of his country and into the cosmos itself. After death, he would escape the earthly bounds of his tomb, board a solar boat and sail into immortality. This vision became material in objects and images founin the tombs and temples as a way of preordaining a central idea afr a perilous and carefully prescribed journey through the night, the king would become one with the sun god re.
Built on a trapezoidal pl of land adjoining the original gallery, the East Building is of a unique and radical design, utilizing triangular shapes with large interior spaces. It was a collaborative effort spanning more than ten years. Director j. Carter brown worked closely with architect i. M. Pei in its development. Seven works of art were commissioned it was agreed that a specific pieceas needed to animate the unbroken expanse of wall in the central courtyard. But the artist would have to have a capacity for monumental concepts, with a sense of color and scale appropriate to the site. A unanimous choice was spanish artist joan miro. Bo in the catalan city of barcelona in 1893, miro has remained close to the land and its people. But as a young man in paris, he joined th friends like max ernst and jean arp in the emerging Surrealist Movement of the 1920s. In his painting the farm, miros characteristic symbols and themes began to appear serpentine shapes, checkerboard patterns, infinit
Before it is too late in life, and before your manner and taste were corrupted or fixed by working in your little way at boston. Narrator an impressive letter to a young painter and from the distinguished sir joshua reynolds. Could he be right . harpsichord continues John Singleton copley loved his country, but he wanted the richer artistic influences of the old world. Besides, talk of revolution was everywhere. Political contests, he felt, were neither pleasing to an artist nor advantageous to art itself. In 1774, copley left; it would make him a better painter, he thought. Sad for him, sad for america he never returned to his home. At 34, John Singleton copley was already one of the best and most popular painters in the american colonies. The Young American artist John Trumbull said of him, an elegantlooking man dressed in fine maroon cloth with gold buttons, this dazzling to my unpracticed eye, but his painting, the first id ever seen deserving the name, rivetedabsorbed my attention