The Nike of Samothrace is a very dramatic sculpture. ... I think the sculpture is very moving and emotional. ... This sculpture is very dramatic, just as the Nike of Samothrace was. Great opposition or forces seem to be a common factor in each sculpture. ... The Nike shows more detail and uniformity, while the other is obviously more abstract, but they both show the same subject. ...

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Helen FrankenthalerA form of art called abstract expressionism is a form of art in which the artist expresses ones self purely through the use of form and color.In abstract expressionism, the art really has no concrete shape, but is made up of purely form and color. Helen Frankenthaler was an abstract expressionist who revolutionized a new technique of canvas painting, and started a brand new generation of unique artists. ... Helen Frankenthaler was also married to another abstract expressionist, Robert Motherwell, from 1958 to 1971. ... In the 1970's she started using woodcuts, color p...

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Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism is a modern art movement that flowered in America after the Second World War and held power until the dawn of Pop Art in the1960's. ... Abstract Expressionism is a form of art in which the artist expresses himself purely through the use of form and color. ... Jackson Pollock's turbulent yet elegant abstract paintings, which were created by spattering paint on huge canvases placed on the floor, brought abstract expressionism before a hostile public. ... By the 1951 Museum of Modern Art exhibition Abstract Painting and Sculpture in ...

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One of the most important artists in abstract expressionism was Jackson Pollack. ... The abstract expressionists thought of their paintings as living things. ... Abstract expressionism dominated the art world of the late 1940's and 50's. ... Rauchenberg's pieces contained reproductions of familiar people, places and objects, and created "combine-paintings- from paint, silk-screens, prints, three dimensional sculpture, and collaged paper. ... They portrayed artwork through a variety of methods that differed from the ordinary painting or sculpture "including commercial, co...

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INVESTIGATING THE REPRESENTATION OF THE MOTHER AND CHILD THEME IN 20TH CENTUARY SCULPTURE The mother and child theme was one which was extremely important to Henry Moore in his sculptures and this sculpture Mother and Child of 1931 is yet another celebration of it. ... This sculpture is the most abstract of the group from which I am comparing, the mother and child figure are the centre of a bordering oval around them. The other mother and child sculptures are all seated poised figures. ... This final sculpture looks at the mother and child subject in my view very different to Moore's m...

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In the art world; art is art, sculpture is art, furniture can be art, but it could not be sculpture. ... In the late 1960's Castle entered an abstract looking sculpture into an art competition. ... He named the piece "Stool Sculpture". ... Had Castle not disclosed the Stool's identity it would have passed by unnoticed, a somewhat ordinary abstract wooden sculpture. ... They are made to look like an abstract sculpture that upon closer examination is a desk, or chair, or in the original case his stool sculpture. ...

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His body of work comprises of small-scale works, larger pieces shown in sculpture gardens, and specific commissioned objects. The forms Deacon creates are abstract, yet chock full of metaphorical references created by the contradicting elements in his pieces. ... This retrospective highlights Deacon's fluctuating explorations into abstract and organic forms. ... Deacon's sculptures are large-scale extravagant forms that take up a considerable amount of floor space, commanding a display area free from distractions. ... Referring to himself as a "fabricator,"" he creates organically sh...

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I did not think the wing of the Lamassu was as big as it was until I saw the sculpture in the museum. ... When I saw the actual sculpture, I could tell the artist made the Lamassu from limestone. ... This sculpture is very idealistic. ... They are very abstract. ... The Figure is an extremely abstract work from Islamic Art. ...

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During the late 1950's and 1960's, Mason belonged to a group of free-form or abstract expressionists. ... Mason created sculpture with little regard to utility and function, focusing mainly on form and elasticity of the clay. ... He wed the vibrancy of his early work to geometric restraint of firebrick installations to create new totemic sculptures. ... The surfaces of the sculptures glow with an inner light that intensifies dimensional movement. ...

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Many small sculptures have been excavated. ... (Berberich) The existence of both sculptures and paintings leads one to think that there was an emphasis on the religious, or abstract thought. ... Kung San that enacted religious rites, and could have used the sculptures. A baton or staff, found at Mas-d'Azil, France, is extremely interesting and abstract. ... ("Long Foreground) Archaeologists do not know the importance of what this baton is, but the abstractness of the artifact would suggest that not only was Cro-Magnon thinking abstractly, but possibly speaking. ...

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Someone looking at a piece of abstract art such as Harmony I & II outside Ngee Ann City along Orchard Road, may understand what the sculptor is trying to say and the sculpture may invoke deep feelings in him. However, someone else looking at the same piece of art may think that it is just another sculpture along Orchard Road, nothing spectacular. Another person might even question whether it really is art because it looks to him like "some stupid sculpture by some eccentric artist". ...

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The height of the sculpture was 6"4" tall. ... The pose provided a clear, simple, formula that was used by Greek sculptures throughout the 6th century B.C. In this early figure almost abstract, geometric forms predominate; and anatomical details are rendered in beautiful anagous patterns. ... These were basically life-size or maybe larger sculptures. ... In Egyptian sculpture, male figures were always at least partially clothed, wearing articles associated with their status, such as the headdresses, beaded pectorals, and kilts that identified kinds. ...

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Abstract Here are nine descriptions of art and explanations of why the examples exemplify the definitions of art. ... Sculpture Gian Lorenzo helped make sculptures representing spring and fall. ... His sculptures translate topics, use of forms, and mixture of media. 4. ... Patrick Dougherty completed this piece of art and he creates sculptures and huts from saplings, branches, and twigs. ...

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From there, he went on to finish a masters degree in sculpture. ... From pots to abstract sculptures, his tastes, styles, and talents have all evolved. His favorite form of art is sculpture. ... There he spends more time fixing his house than working on a new sculpture. ...

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He was considered to be "The father of Renaissance painting- because of his less abstract and more natural approach to the depiction of the world (Kagan) . ... The sculptures, much like Greek and Roman sculptures, were more exaggerated in their size and their presence was powerful. ... An even better example of this shift in views from the medieval art to the Renaissance art was Michelangelo's sculpture of David. ... The sculptures had become more daring in their presentation. Donatello's sculpture of David was the first nude seen since the times of the Roman Empire. ...

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Katz is probably best known as a printer but he also did paintings , drawing, sculptures, collages, and painted cut-out figures .He has also done some set design for the choreographer Paul Taylor in 1960. ... After serving in WW2 he studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in NY from 1946-49, and then at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine from 1949-50. During the 1950's Alex was influenced by the work of Jackson Pollock and other abstract Expressionists .During this time he produced swiftly executed pictures of trees as well as several works based on photographs...

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Suprematism and Constructivism Suprematism was a term created in 1915 by Kazimir Malevich. The word Suprematism itself implied the supremacy of this new art in relation to the past. Malevich saw it as aesthetic and was concerned only with form, free from any political or social meaning. He stres...

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Perhaps, more knowledge on the model character will help reveal some of the mysteries of the abstract elements surrounding the art. The sculpture stands approximately forty-one inches high. ... The artist who carved this stunning sculpture of Cleopatra (69 BC – 30 BC) most likely used the stone carving technique to create the sculpture. ... After examining the physical compositions of the piece, the goal of this paper will be to analyze the abstract constituents therein. ... Delaney's (2014) observation further argues that the queen's revered status is a factor representative...

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Cubism opened up a window into a modern abstract art which still affects artists today. ... One was that of the ancient Iberian bronze sculptures he had seen in Spain. The other was his recent discovery of African sculpture. ... The African masks and sculptures suggested a new way of seeing the human form- from several sides at once, rather than from the fixed perspective of the traditional two dimensions. ... He, along with Braque, formed the building blocks of the abstract modern art of today. ...

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East Indian Sculpture and Baroque sculpture: How are they different and how are they similar? ... Within this sculpture are a woman and half horse/man. ... My favorite of the two is the Baroque sculpture. ... Gerald Cantor Sculpture Gallery. ... This painting is very abstract and makes use of stacking; nothing overlaps. ...

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INVESTIGATING THE REPRESENTATION OF THE MOTHER AND CHILD THEME IN 20TH CENTUARY SCULPTURE The mother and child theme was one which was extremely important to Henry Moore in his sculptures and this sculpture Mother and Child of 1931 is yet another celebration of it. ... This sculpture is the most abstract of the group from which I am comparing, the mother and child figure are the centre of a bordering oval around them. The other mother and child sculptures are all seated poised figures. ... This final sculpture looks at the mother and child subject in my view very different to Moore's m...

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Stone and clay sculpture was brightly painted, entirely or partly. ... The movement and variety seen in Minoan art, even in its earlier abstract phases, suggest living things. ... The abstract geometric designs used on them were replaced by the more rounded, realistic forms of Eastern motifs, such as the lotus, lion, and sphinx (influenced from Egyptian Civilization). ... Temples housed images of the gods and were decorated with sculpture and paintings. ... Figures were done in abstract forms using triangles for body shapes, dots for eyes, and rectangles for arms. ...

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A picture or a sculpture. ... It is an abstract perfection. ... He looks very light, as opposed to the previous sculpture, almost weightless, like it is going to begin to breathe soon. By looking at the sculpture, you can hardly tell that it is made of such heavy material as marble. ... Just think about the two sculptures like about a grandfather and a child, they look alike, but they are not, they are similar because a child has part of it in him, but there is also a mother, and a father and grandma present in him. ...

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Many of our structures and sculptures have at least some form of influence from these classical periods. ... The Discus Thrower by Myron is a classical Greek sculpture. ... Even sculpture shows how geometry plays an important role in classic art. ... This sculpture gives the bases of the human form in sculpture. ... Even an artist who is trying to create the most abstract sculpture of a human body should have the understanding of classical ideas, which are form, proportion, symmetry, balance, and harmony. ...

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