The Seven Lively Arts

Sculpture

The Seven Lively Arts Sculpture

In this section we see an early Hittite Bas-Relief along the top, the Classical Greek proportions of the Venus de Milo, the great Sphinx of Egypt, a totem pole representing indigenous North American sculpture and, in the foreground, a piece of welded steel which refers to the contemporary sculpture of York Wilson's time.

Wilson has brought together themes and styles from various periods in the history of Western Art. In the upper left corner he mimics the primitive style of the oldest known cave-paintings. Below this section is a sequence of Egyptian hieroglyphs. To the right, a depiction of one of the classic themes in Western religious art, Christ's Descent From the Cross.