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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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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More often than not the abstract artists is not imitating nature or pursuing realism, but concerned with the spiritual or emotional state of colour and form, line and texture, balance and harmony, and will attempt to engage the viewer in a way that narrative, realistic of naturalistic art cannot.? ... An Abstract connects art and engineering to show that they are not enemy faculties, connect people with beautiful materials and structures, connect people with their past and present. ... Their use of volumes and voids was like creating a draped reclining figure sculpture. The effects of c...

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Interestingly enough, he borrowed money from Pablo Picasso, a well-known artist specializing in cubism and abstract art. ... He began to experiment with sculpture. ... Dali took up sculpture as it was something he had never tried before and would be readily accepted by the public and that it would be much more difficult to clone a sculpture. Dali's sculpture related to his paintings. One would see a sculpture of a Dali soft watch, or bizarre, mutated forms of humans or scenery. ...

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I was taught to draw landscapes, abstracts, objects and people. ... Seeing more of these fantastic drawings and sculptures by these very intelligent people shown in class, helps me with my creativity and artwork. ...

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Other works went through the abstract and full of color 1960's, until the newer more mechanical art of the 1980's and 90's. ... There were a few sculpture pieces, but mainly, it was photographs and drawings or paintings. ... The were beautiful non-ferrous sculptures of feathers, headdresses, spears, and other Native American art. ...

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Picassos" art changed radically around 1907, when he decided to incorporate some stylistic elements of African sculpture into his painting. ... Much like the futurists Constructivism sought an art that would be abstract yet easily understood. Their sculptures celebrated the material properties of objects, such as texture and shape. Construction is an additive process by which the artist combines ordinary materials such as metal and wood to construct sculptures. ...

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The same German aesthetic tradition can also be found in J.J Winckelmann's writings, such as "History of the Art of Antiquity", "Thoughts on the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks", and G.E Lessing's "Laocöon". ... His philosophy of art takes account of the beauty in art, the historical development of art, and individual forms of art, such as, architecture, painting, literature, sculpture, poetry, and music. ... In "Symbolic" art the content is formed abstractly, it is not able to demonstrate itself sufficiently enough ...

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The modern art wing has many paintings, architecture, sculpture, and drawings dating back to 1900. ... A completely different art piece that made an impact on me was a piece by Piet Mondrian, an Abstract Expressionist. His painting, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, is very abstract. ... I've become more interested in the abstract since. ... Whereas Mondrian's painting is completely abstract. ...

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Pop art ridiculed many aspects of the modern world, with mass produced objects as the main subject for their collages, sculptures, prints and paintings. ... The pop art movement began as a reaction against the abstract expressionist style of the 1940s and 1950s, which the pop artists considered overly intellectual, subjective, and separate from reality. ... In 1961 Claes Oldenburg, an American, constructed the first of his gaudy, humorous plastic sculptures of hamburgers and other fast-food items. ...

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Jose Bedia (Cuban, b.1959) is an abstract painter who illustrates ideas of spirituality and indigenous cultures. ... Bedia also creates sculpture installations that reflect his interest in Indigenous Art. ... Bedia's paintings and sculptures share themes that Mendieta also explores in woks such as her Silueta series. ...

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The purpose of art education when pertaining to children is to aid them when dealing with abstract thought development by way of bringing them into visible form or symbols. ... I feel it is ever growing for them because of the ongoing challenge that can be presented to them through projects that are increasing in the combined variety of media and abstract concepts. ... In this class we were presented with a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, textile and a combination of these and more it was helpful for me to use these things while at the same time learning to understand...

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There are paintings created with pastels, oils, watercolors and acrylics in order to portray landscapes, realism, surrealism, fantasy, abstracts, still life, the human body, etc. ... Printmaking, paper art, metal, ceramics or clay working, sculpture, wood working, folk art and basket weaving, leather working, mixed media, digital design, and many others is considered art. ...

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Both arose from a rebellion against an accepted style: the Cubists thought Post-Impressionist artists were too tame and limited, while Pop Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense. ... Is it a 20foot sculpture made from wood, or clay? ...

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The relationship between Good and Beauty as well as Life and Art in ThePicture of Dorian Gray In my essay I am going to examine how appears in The Picture of Dorian Gray the question of "Beauty- and, what is strongly related to it especially at Wilde, the question of art. I refer to some of his former writings especially to The Decay of Lying (In Intentions, 1891) which has a conceptual similarity to the novella. I look into the connection between Beauty and another complex aesthetic concept, the concept of Good. I will examine Lord Henry's character as the "Seducer-. One of the mai...

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