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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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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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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The whole sculpture is one big neutral color, light brown. ... The texture is rock or some sort of hard clay because this is a sculpture, a three dimensional piece of art. The value I see in this sculpture is because it is an actual three dimensional sculpture it casts shadows beside each body so even in a picture the viewer can easily tell it is a real three dimensional work of art. ... The balance in this sculpture is definitely asymmetrical because if you cut it in half the two sides would be uneven. ... I would label it realism with some abstract to it. ...

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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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Other cultures represented by sculpture include the Dayak of West Kalimantan, the Toraja of Sulawesi, and the island of Nias. ... Themes such as boats and horses are represented in textiles, metalwork, and beadwork, as well as figurative sculpture in wood and stone, much of it dating from the early 20th century or earlier. ... The exhibition emphasizes this approach in drawing extensively on a comprehensive collection of figurative sculpture and a wide variety of masks. ... In African sculpture the human form can have various meanings, some as explicit as fertility, some as abstract as justi...

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Clear distinctions between dwellings and shrines were found in the occurrence of vivid and elaborate decoration, including paintings and wall sculptures. ... Red, pink and a deep brown red on a cream colored background were the most common color schemes used in the paintings in residence where abstract patterns sometimes resemble textile designs. ... They are heavily decorated with sculpture and painting. ...

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(This picture [display picture of sculpture] shows the Peter Corlett sculpture of Simpson and his Donkey which stands at the front of the Australian War Memorial. This sculpture is very popular among children and if you look closely you can see that the donkey's nose has been rubbed smooth.) ... There are certainly many archetypes on display, whether they are the First World War figures in the stained glass windows of the Hall of Memory or the towering sculptures of servicemen in the cloisters. ...

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It wasn't only the art of writing that evolved, but also painting, drawing, sculpture and other more visual art. The traditional realistic forms of art gave way to Cubism, Dadaism and other forms of the Abstract, or non-representational forms of art. ... One of the forerunners of this movement and the first artists in recorded history to have created a genuine Abstract artwork was Pablo Picasso. ...

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Art, it's everywhere you look. From the billboards you see every day to the pictures you take with your camera. It exists on every continent and every country. Art has been around sense the beginning of time and still thrives today. This essay is to inform and highlight some of the most importan...

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There, from 1912 to 1914, he began to develop an independent abstract style. ... This group, which included Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, and Georges Vantongerloo, extended its principles of abstraction and simplification beyond painting and sculpture to architecture and graphic and industrial design. Mondrian's essays on abstract art were published in the periodical De Stijl. ... In New York, he joined American Abstract Artists and continued to publish texts on Neo-Plasticism. ...

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Christian artist were not influenced by secular art forms, this is why they would not build sculptures. ... Mahayana Buddhist like the use of sculptures to represent the Buddha. ... They liked used abstract patterns, flowering and rhythmic lines that were engraved in lime stone. ...

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In a broader sense it includes the geometrical and more abstract patterns and rhythms that were evolved as part of the general reaction to 19th-century historicism (Johnson 12). ... They used the pliancy of wood, molten glass, clay and metal, and applied them to the flowing curves we see in buildings, furniture, jewelry, ceramics, glass and sculpture. ...

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Around 700 BCE there were Compass-drawn decorations, compositions based on axial symmetry; gold torques, chariot fittings and phalera, belt-hooks, scabbards, wine jugs, and sculptures mainly in geometric designs. ... Between 300 and 200 BCE there was plastic metamorphosis: the blending of human, animal, plant, and abstract forms, complex compositions incorporating various forms of symmetry, high point of metalwork, and colored glass beads and bracelets. ...

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In the 700's the Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay sculptures, but without any classification system. ... Compton's 99 Encyclopedia Deluxe "Forensic science" .CDROM 1998 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Forensics We live with crime and imag March 6, 2002 "New Detectives" Discovery Channel Abstract Forensic Science: The Science of Evidence. ...

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With the physical creation of earth, mankind, and gods came the abstract concepts of law, religion, ethics, and kingship. ... Once again, the pharaoh was supreme, and this is reflected in the sculptures of them, as there is a grim determination and disillusionment about the features, perhaps to guard against such mistakes that were made in the Old Kingdom. ...

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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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