Prehistoric art gives us a clue and understanding about early human life and culture. The development of writing system and advanced civilization gave rise to the development of more defined and real form of art. ... The sculpture of Khafre shows importance and power of a king considering the highest quality of stone used (Davis, Art History). ... Egyptians believe in afterlife and mummification, which played significant role in their art and culture. ... It seems that Egyptian art mainly focuses on life and death events like the statue shows, whereas many prehistoric art mainly focus on woma...

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After graduating from Saint Martin's School of Art, his sculptural activity turned towards object making, which further developed in his studies at the Royal College of Art. Leaving the Royal College of Art in London in 1977 when he went to study at the Chelsea School of Art. ... 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 u...

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Public Art in Adelaide takes many shapes and forms, for example, a painting a sculpture a fountain, a performance or a personal work. ... Public art can also be in the form of a memorial, to serve the purpose of communicating a special someone or a historical contemporary event in history. ... I researched the commissioning process when a city council or a governing body invites effluence's a firmly incorporated artists, craftspeople, art workers and designers to submit a design to the Art for Public Places program. ... "People can get away form the hustle and bustle of their office a...

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Moore as did other artists and sculptors of to the post-world war one era wished to reject complexity in there art which was commonly associated with fine art and reverted back to simple forms and primary emotions take from primitive and tribal art. This was known as evolutionary technique known as Primitivism relying on influences from tribal backgrounds and their art to encapsulate raw feeling and emotions. ... Each achieves their sculpture using different methods and materials; however each one shows influences taken from primitive art. ... The form seems elongated perhaps to prove importan...

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The Eshnunna Statuettes, dating back to 2700 BC, reveal important information about Ancient Near-Eastern Art and the Tel Asmar of that period. ... Kneeling has been a highly regarded form of praise and love towards higher beings for centuries. ...

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Next was making the exact form as a wax model with all intricate details to make the mould, which would be peeled off the model. ... Apollo and Daphne 1622-1625 (Baroque) "Apollo and Daphne" is a life-size marble sculpture carved by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in the Baroque period, a period of artistic style, exaggerating motion and easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, enthusiasm and grandeur in works of art. ... Once the general form has come together, a toothed chisels or a claw chisel with many gouging surfaces would create parallel lines on the stone creating text...

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Unlike such contemporaries as Aristide Maillol, who consciously echoed classical archetypes, Matisse sought to render the female nude with a new immediacy, freed of art-historical conventions. ... By turning the figure away from the viewer, Matisse explores the challenge of endowing the human form with expressive power. ...

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The Italian artists developed new perspective and achieved naturalism as they created works of art that synthesized ancient content with contemporary form. Goldsmith, artist, and sculpture, Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488) was focused on physiological verisimilitude in his art. ...

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