Art is a form of communication that artists use to pass information to the audiences that will experience the art. Sculptures one of the oldest art forms; they are made from stone, a medium that has been there since before, and thus with the sculptures are embedded a great source of information, culture, originality, and heritage that may never be practiced and envisaged at all in the present. We will compare and contrast two sculptures in the Metropolitan Art Museum that have similarities and conclusion in aspects ranging from their physical appearance to their intended meaning.
The Olmec sculptures are known civilizations that were created to signify the manifestation of Gods in the past. Olmec was named after Olman, which meant a place of rubber. The Seated Bench Figure and the Kneeling Bearded Figure were both designed between the 900-400BCE in the Gulf Coast states of Veracruz. The sculptures were used a culture setting and artistic feature to Tabasco in Mexico and around the south area. The Seated Bench Figure was crafted at the site of Morelos Chlcatzingo, Mexico, with its personage, and its physical appearance describes an ancient God holding a supernatural baby. It was crafted with a large head with a precise hairstyle with exaggerated ears whose lobes are drilled (for ornaments). The figure is holding a baby with defined limbs and a slopping head. The central figure compared to the Kneeling Bearded Figure, is very different. It has his has rested on the carved knees. It carries no child, but it is a soft muscled figure dressed in a loincloth but unadorned. It has an elongated head with small ear lobes. The Seated Bench Figure has no beard and holds a baby who is minimally adorned but represents the center of the world, but the Kneeling Bearded Figure holds no infant but represents some latent power. The figure is muscled from the arms to the legs to indicate it is a male figure that is powerful with deities relating to the cat family.
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Both sculptures have suffered losses. The Kneeling Bearded Figure has incurred a slot of losses to his hands, feet, and arm, such as the Seated Bench Figure, which has lost its right leg. They are old since they were created thousands of years ago, and both had some unclear meaning; hence archeologists studied the sculptures scientifically. The Kneeling Bearded Figure was carved from a dark greenish-gray serpentine while the seated bench figure was sculptured from a light cream-gray serpentine. The quality of both the arts is inferior due to the condition in which it was discovered and stored. They are also ancient and were crafted under very harsh conditions. The art is best known for its colossal sculpture (volcanic stone) and intricate works that were both imported from regions far away. The infant in the seated bench figure represented the life cycle of agriculture, describing the stages of time and space for which the infant grew with comparison to agriculture. Both the sculpture was used to show their origin and to explain their significance. They were hieroglyphic images that represented the early rulers.
In conclusion, the two sculptures have differing aspects; the main aspects include the reason for sculpturing, their specific origin, their physical appearance, and color. The mentioned similarities include time at which they were sculptured, the medium for sculpturing, their ages, natural fractures, their meaning to a general extent are tied to the same culture and their physical representation.
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