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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lamassu gates, stone walls, relief sculptures showing delegations from all parts of the empire bringing gifts to be stored in the treasury. ... Relief sculpture shows king Narmer uniting upper and lower Egypt. ... The color remains on the sculpture. ... Akhenaton 91 73 His body has the same pose as in Old Kingdom sculptures, but the features are smoother, more relaxed. ... This sculpture was used as a model for copying. ...

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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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Chris Burden is an extremely significant abstract artist who began exhibiting in 1971. ... He started out as an architecture student but later changed his major to sculpture because, as he said: "When I design something, I can't wait to see it."... In 1983, after realizing he did not want to become a novelty act, he decided to pursue his interests in sculpture and model building. ... Because he did not want to become known as a novelty act, Burden decided to change his direction and focus on his other interests, namely, sculpture and model building. However, even in some of his sculptu...

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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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He has taken the world into many places and has enabled us to see many abstract creations through his artwork alone. Among his many contributions to art, his most important include pioneering the modern art movement called cubism, inventing collage as an artistic technique, and developing assemblage in sculpture. ... It had dimensions, the human form was reassembled into pieces, and it set the stage for abstract art. During his abstract moment, Picasso met a French artist named Georges Braque, and they instantly had a connection. ... He left many great achievements with the world, which in...

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The ancient Iberian sculpture from Spain, which was African art was what paved the way for Picasso to become well known for his technique of cubism, He incorporated simplified forms of the source into striking portraits. ... Picasso started this period of Cubism and his works took on a cube shaped abstract figure. ... Picasso also brought controversy to the art world while he lived in Paris during World War I and the Spanish Civil War, as he made gloomy paintings in an abstract style, many showing skulls. ...

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In 1951the Carlebach Gallery in New York organised a solo exhibition of his semi-abstract paintings of the old West. ... It was by this time that Lichtenstein had begun to include loosely drawn cartoon characters in his increasingly abstract canvases. ... In 1979 Lichtenstein received his first public commission for a sculpture. ...

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It had sculptures of biblical characters and scenes that were awkwardly engraved in the stone, but the designs did not stop at the archway. ... I will never forget the abstract beauty of the temple or the city that it was in. ...

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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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It is his job to provide the various masks and sculptures for use in social and religious ceremonies. ... The Function of an African Mask In the early 20th Century, artists like Pablo Picasso and Andre Derain were inspired by the bold abstract designs in African tribal masks. ... As a result, we now tend to admire the bold design and abstract patterns of African masks through European eyes. ... Some are realistic portraits, while others celebrate more abstract qualities like nobility, beauty, courage, mischief and humour. Exaggerated and stylised features help to express these abstract valu...

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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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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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I did my final project on the architect Frank Gehry. He seemed very interesting to me and I wanted to learn more about him. In an artistic climate that too often looks backwards rather that toward the future, where retrospectives are more prevalent than risk-taking, it is important to honor the arch...

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