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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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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From them, Romans acquired architectural styles and skills in road construction, sanitation, hydraulic engineering (including underground conduits), metallurgy, ceramics, and portrait sculpture." ... "The Romans, unlike the Greeks, were distinguished by practicality and common sense, not by a love of abstract thought. ...

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What is art? And what is reality? Especially today, why should one draw or paint, carve or model, when an image can be captured with a camera? In a nineteenth-century painting, Interior with Portraits, by the American artist Thomas LeClear, two children stand painfully still while a photographer pre...

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