The alabaster sculpture of a crouching naked man, with his hands tied and his head covered by a hood is on display at a Baghdad gallery. |
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French sculptors used limewood, walnut, and poplar, both for sculpture and for the applied arts. |
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Birch branches leaning against a wall in the living room become sculpture, for example. |
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Then he continues to refine the sculpture using smaller keyhole saws, gouges and microplanes. |
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Last but not least, hanging above the ground floor is the kinetic sculpture. |
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Levine has been a lifelong artist who deals with the abstract in his photography, watercolors, oils, acrylics, mixed media and metal sculpture. |
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Bronze enabled people to make better tools and weapons, as well as make beautiful jewelry and sculpture. |
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The extraordinary airiness and weightlessness of traditional sculpture owes itself to the continuity and the smoothness of their surfaces. |
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The sculpture was some sort of fibre optic thing with elongated tendrils that pulsed slowly at a very low wattage. |
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Beyond the lobby is the auditorium and beyond that a sculpture garden, a lovely oasis of quietude at the rear of the lot. |
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There, he has lived for the past 30 years, mastering lithography, oil painting, watercolor, gouache, drawing, engraving, sculpture and ceramics. |
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There, in addition to painting in oil and watercolor and making sculpture and furniture, he often worked as a decorator of ceramics. |
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This space was ornamented with low relief sculpture of winged sun disks and wreaths located on the pedimented impost blocks between the arches. |
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Thereby they imply that the sculpture is steeped in the same aesthetic as that behind our legacy of San rock paintings. |
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How did an impoverished North Philadelphia community transform abandoned lots into whimsical sculpture gardens? |
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Using an undercoat by spattering acrylics, I finish off the surface of the sculpture with oil paints with the aid of an airbrush. |
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Have students create a contemporary commemorative sculpture with the accoutrements and adornments appropriate for today. |
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The finishing touch was a sculpture of a 7ft high stork, complete with baby, made by metal artist Peter Robinson. |
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Nights of stuffing this sculpture with kapok, a new substance for the job, sent me into bouts of itching. |
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As well as a being qualified welder and accomplished blacksmith, he is trained in art and design, visual arts and sculpture. |
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For outdoor metal sculpture waxing at least once a year is essential to protect the metal from chemical action. |
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The nucleus of the center is the Clement Greenberg Collection of painting and sculpture, which was recently accessioned en bloc. |
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He was delighted when Edinburgh Council agreed to accept the nativity scene sculpture and to display it in such a prominent position. |
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The alabaster sculpture on display at a Baghdad gallery bears a striking resemblance to some of the shocking photographs that emerged last week. |
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An outcrop of bare rocks jutting out of the hill, hewn into different shapes by eons of wind and rain, appeared like a sculpture gallery of Henry Moore. |
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Although Gil de Siloe has been called Netherlandish because of his style, much of his sculpture actually feeds on the Spanish tradition of alabaster carving. |
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Motorists at Dr Cullen roundabout were doing an about-turn all this week, as Carlovians caught their first glimpse of the town's latest sculpture. |
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Can you get that same moment of abracadabra from oils or sculpture? |
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Families can visit entire sculpture gardens featuring vivid depictions of what sinners face in the afterlife. |
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The simplified forms of her raku sculpture convey Lorna's intention that the figures, animals, angels or monuments they resemble are symbols of a much deeper subject. |
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A sculpture terrace in the rear completes the exhibition space. |
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While receiving his ba Honors in sculpture, his focus shifted to the intersection of art and the environment. |
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The sculpture called Seminal is carved out of an ash tree trunk. |
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Like trees, these structures provide shelter and serve as attractive pieces of natural sculpture. |
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The artists living along the Art Trail work in a variety of media, including sculpture, painting, photography, woodcarving, printmaking and fiber art. |
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Historical photographs on view in the exhibition show a crazy quilt of painting and sculpture. |
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He emerges, barely, pared to his essence, like a sculpture hacked from ice. |
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A sculpture with crystallized, color-changing, holographic colors with black lights. |
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Although the sculpture had flaws, it also had a certain je ne sais quoi that made it very appealing. |
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These performances were intended as works of a new art form combining sculpture, dance, and music or sound, often with audience participation. |
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Many of the sculptures made reference to the work of Rankin, and an eleventh sculpture was a personal gift to him. |
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London's Mall Galleries opened an exhibition in May 2008 that included a sculpture of Winehouse, titled Excess. |
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Greek marble sculpture is often described as the highest form of Classical art. |
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Roman sculpture, is primarily portraiture derived from the upper classes of society as well as depictions of the gods. |
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In Belgium, pop art was represented by Paul Van Hoeydonck, whose sculpture Fallen Astronaut was left on the moon during one of the moon missions. |
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The two first met on 25 September 1967 while studying sculpture at Saint Martin's School of Art. |
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Although they work in a variety of media, but have always referred to all works as sculpture. |
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The Polish Katarzyna Kobro applied mathematically based ideas to sculpture. |
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Art as Object as seen in the Minimalist sculpture of Donald Judd and the paintings of Frank Stella are still seen today in newer permutations. |
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However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost. |
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The Western tradition of sculpture began in ancient Greece, and Greece is widely seen as producing great masterpieces in the classical period. |
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Relief sculpture may also decorate steles, upright slabs, usually of stone, often also containing inscriptions. |
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Another grand form of portrait sculpture is the equestrian statue of a rider on horse, which has become rare in recent decades. |
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A collection of sculpture in a garden setting can be called a sculpture garden. |
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One of the most common purposes of sculpture is in some form of association with religion. |
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Stone sculpture is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. |
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Monumental sculpture covers large works, and architectural sculpture, which is attached to buildings. |
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Glass may be used for sculpture through a wide range of working techniques, though the use of it for large works is a recent development. |
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Outdoor wood sculpture does not last long in most parts of the world, so that we have little idea how the totem pole tradition developed. |
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Wood is light, so suitable for masks and other sculpture intended to be carried, and can take very fine detail. |
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Much decorative sculpture on buildings remained a trade, but sculptors producing individual pieces were recognised on a level with painters. |
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Romanesque art was characterised by a very vigorous style in both sculpture and painting. |
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Church sculpture mostly moved inside just as outside public monuments became common. |
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The Neoclassical style that arrived in the late 18th century gave great emphasis to sculpture. |
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In sculpture, the most familiar representatives are the Italian Antonio Canova, the Englishman John Flaxman and the Dane Bertel Thorvaldsen. |
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The arrival of Buddhism in the 6th century brought with it sophisticated traditions in sculpture, Chinese styles mediated via Korea. |
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The Kei school of sculptors, particularly Unkei, created a new, more realistic style of sculpture. |
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In later periods Chinese influence predominated in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and more wooden sculpture survives from across the region. |
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Minimalist sculpture replaced the figure in public settings and architects almost completely stopped using sculpture in or on their designs. |
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Artists created environmental sculpture on expansive sites in the 'land art in the American West' group of projects. |
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Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Jackie Winsor, Keith Sonnier, and Bruce Nauman, among others were pioneers of Postminimalist sculpture. |
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John McCracken, Untitled slab painting, 1981, resin and fiberglass sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum. |
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Some modern sculpture forms are now practiced outdoors, as environmental art and environmental sculpture, often in full view of spectators. |
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Ice sculpture is a form of ephemeral sculpture that uses ice as the raw material. |
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In September 2015, Gormley had his first sculpture installed in New Zealand. |
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He was the recipient of the Obayashi Prize in 2012 and is the 2013 Praemium Imperiale laureate for sculpture. |
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The Greater London Authority selected Kapoor's sculpture from a shortlist of five artists as the permanent artwork for the Olympic Park. |
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A riverside sculpture trail runs alongside this final section of its north bank. |
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Other discourse around female YBA work include a discussion of Rachel Whiteread's sculpture practice. |
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Hirst sold three more copies of his sculpture for similar amounts to the first. |
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Because the sculpture itself was made in 1991, the shark is very much rotting and deformed due to the formaldehyde taking its toll on the corpse. |
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Hirst also agreed to restrictions on further reproductions of his sculpture. |
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Though she graduated with a BA in painting, she spent much of her time doing sculpture. |
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While still at the Slade, Whiteread cast domestic objects and created her first sculpture, Closet. |
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The sculpture is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. |
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Emin's covers a variety of different media, including needlework and sculpture, drawing, video and installation, photography and painting. |
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In February 2005, Emin's first public artwork, a bronze sculpture, went on display outside the Oratory, adjacent to Liverpool Cathedral. |
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The sculpture was placed at the very front edge of the massive plinth, emphasising its vulnerability and relative smallness. |
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In 1991 the sculpture department moved to a converted factory across the river Thames in Battersea. |
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The latter culture was thriving, and it included arts such as sculpture, painting, and feather mosaics. |
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The long story of African Art includes both high sculpture, perhaps typified by the brass castings of the Benin people, as well as folk art. |
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Impressive sculpture was concurrently being cast from brass by the Yoruba people of what is now Nigeria. |
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The collection includes photographs and caricatures as well as paintings, drawings and sculpture. |
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Smith with a classical portico and dome behind, and the central sculpture gallery was designed by John Russell Pope. |
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In 2010, a bronze bust sculpture of Connery was placed in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. |
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The Romans also revered it, from copies of Greek originals to sculpture of their own. |
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Several pieces of early medieval sculpture are preserved in the parish church, which is dedicated to St Andrew. |
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Portraiture, which survives mainly in the medium of sculpture, was the most copious form of imperial art. |
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Japonism affected fine arts, sculpture, architecture, performing arts and decorative arts throughout Western culture. |
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For sculpture, the principal materials employed were glass and wrought iron, resulting in sculptural qualities even in architecture. |
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In the Art Nouveau ceramics quickly moved into the domain of sculpture and architecture. |
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Exhibitions range from local ancient Roman archeological sites to contemporary graphics and sculpture. |
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More than their Greek predecessors, the Romans extensively took inspiration from boarhunting in their art and sculpture. |
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Many villages still have their closes, they date from the 16th and 17th centuries and sometimes include an elaborately carved calvary sculpture. |
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From the remarkable dynamic tensions of the compact body of the sculpture rise the figures of two athletes at the stirring moment of victory. |
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Bronze technology was developed further by the Incas and used widely both for utilitarian objects and sculpture. |
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Kapoor says this body of work is neither pure sculpture nor pure architecture. |
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These media included fresco, mosaics, sculpture, and manuscript illumination. |
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He devoted his time to painting, sculpture, and, latterly, to gardening. |
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A relief sculpture of Ahura Mazda stands among the ruins of Persepolis in Iran. |
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Each handcrafted sculpture is a unique work of art, and no two are exactly the same. |
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The mine is commemorated by a large sculpture of a miners lamp at the entrance to the stadium complex. |
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His latest sculpture is a hodgepodge of kitchen clutter and scrap glued together. In fact, all his recent pieces have been similar hodgepodges. |
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In architecture and sculpture, the difference between Greek models and Roman paintings are apparent. |
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Portrait sculpture during the period utilised youthful and classical proportions, evolving later into a mixture of realism and idealism. |
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The reconstruction of the state room at Windsor Castle was notable for the integration of architecture, sculpture and painting. |
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There is a statue of Sabrina in the Dingle Gardens at the Quarry, Shrewsbury, as well as a metal sculpture erected in 2013 also in the town. |
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Parliamentarian troops then used the cathedral to stable their horses and damaged much of the ornate sculpture by using it for firing practice. |
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By the clock tower and ornamental pool is Joyride, a mother and child sculpture by Franta Belsky. |
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The flourishing of sculpture in Mercia, occurred slightly later than in Northumbria and is dated to the second half of the 8th century. |
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East Bengal developed its own modernist painting and sculpture traditions, which were distinct from art movements in West Bengal. |
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A luminarium is a monumental walk-in sculpture which people enter to be moved by a sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour. |
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The chapter house has many sculptured heads above the canopies, representing some of the finest Gothic sculpture in the country. |
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Very little indeed survives from the significant quantities of large sculpture that originally decorated temples. |
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The theme of the Fair was the World of Tomorrow, and its symbols were the purely geometric trilon and perisphere sculpture. |
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His Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles is also a vast work of metal sculpture, resembling the sails of ship at sea. |
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American sculptor Anne Whitney created a marble sculpture of Lady Godiva, now in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas. |
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The town's connection with the brewing industry is celebrated by the sculpture of the Burton Cooper in the shopping centre. |
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Portrait sculpture during the period utilized youthful and classical proportions, evolving later into a mixture of realism and idealism. |
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Primary media in the Gothic period included sculpture, panel painting, stained glass, fresco and illuminated manuscripts. |
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The earliest Gothic art was monumental sculpture, on the walls of Cathedrals and abbeys. |
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In 2006, it attracted the press by erroneously placing only the support for a sculpture on display, and then justifying it being kept on display. |
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Italian Renaissance painting and sculpture are marked by their renewal of classical forms, motifs and subjects. |
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Michelangelo, in neither his painting nor his sculpture demonstrates any interest in the observation of any natural object except the human body. |
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The reclining figure was to have a profound effect upon Moore's work, becoming the primary motif of his sculpture. |
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Lacking funds, Morris had to cancel Moore's sculpture, which had not progressed beyond the maquette stage. |
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It now runs his house and estate at Perry Green, with a gallery, sculpture park and studios. |
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Moore's early work is focused on direct carving, in which the form of the sculpture evolves as the artist repeatedly whittles away at the block. |
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Moore produced at least three significant examples of architectural sculpture during his career. |
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It also runs the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds which organises exhibitions and research activities in international sculpture. |
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This is a long outmoded idea, and the exact opposite of what a sculpture gallery should do. |
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Damien Hirst is awarded the 1995 Turner Prize, which included his notorious sculpture Mother and Child, Divided. |
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The renewal was reflected in a flowering of sculpture and architecture, which found patrons among an urban elite. |
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Among his most notable designs is the ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture at the Olympic Park in London. |
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In the early 20th century Marcel Duchamp submitted for exhibition a urinal as a sculpture. |
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Chinese sculpture also achieves the difficult feat of creating effective landscapes in three dimensions. |
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Another example is Giacometti's 1925 Torso, which marked his movement to simplified forms and inspiration from preclassical sculpture. |
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He spent his last fifteen years in Llandaff, near Cardiff, no longer able to do heavy sculpture, but still painting. |
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Each prism will be suspended from the main body of the sculpture by a short arm, giving the artwork a bristly appearance. |
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The sculpture, carved around 1630, is the only one to have survived the conflagration of 1666 intact. |
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The original sculpture depicts Christ on the cross, surrounded by a familiar retinue of mourners. |
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In March 2010, Flare II, a sculpture by Antony Gormley, was installed in the Geometric Staircase. |
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Ice is used in a variety of ways, including cooling, winter sports and ice sculpture. |
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Large sculpture by Maggi Hambling titled The Scallop erected in 2003 on the beach at Aldeburgh, England. |
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Storeton Quarry may also have been used by Romans for materials for sculpture. |
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Italian Neoclassical sculpture focused, with Antonio Canova's nudes, on the idealist aspect of the movement. |
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Another popular sculpture is Sinnataggen, a baby boy stamping his foot in fury. |
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A medieval column capital sculpture depicting this was made in the 12th century in the abbey church in Mozac, France. |
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A memorial sculpture, showing three oil workers, was erected in the Rose Garden within Hazlehead Park in Aberdeen. |
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The Manneken Pis, a fountain containing a small bronze sculpture of a urinating youth, is a tourist attraction and symbol of the city. |
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Scenes from Roman myth also appear in Roman wall painting, coins, and sculpture, particularly reliefs. |
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Ife was noted as a major religious and cultural centre in West Africa, and for its unique naturalistic tradition of bronze sculpture. |
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A local actress named Mary Lawton was said to have posed for parts of the sculpture. |
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During the Columbia University protests of 1968 a bomb damaged the sculpture, but it has since been repaired. |
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The sculpture was destroyed by a fire, probably caused by an electrical fault, on 1 October. |
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Stylistically, a culture's rock relief carvings relate to other types of sculpture from period concerned. |
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Natural rock formations made into statues or other sculpture in the round, most famously at the Great Sphinx of Giza, are also usually excluded. |
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Although not much is known about Maya scribes, some did sign their work, both on ceramics and on stone sculpture. |
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In these fountains, sculpture became the principal element, and the water was used simply to animate and decorate the sculptures. |
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Rome contains a vast and impressive collection of art, sculpture, fountains, mosaics, frescos, and paintings, from all different periods. |
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Much of the figural or architectural sculpture of ancient Greece was painted colourfully. |
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The sculpture was unveiled by Princess Margaret in his native Crediton, located in Newcombes Meadow Park. |
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Depictions of the nude human male and female in photography, painting, and sculpture are frequently considered to have special artistic merit. |
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See links above for Italian Renaissance painting and Renaissance sculpture. |
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Art of the period was characterised by a very vigorous style in both sculpture and painting. |
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Lysippos' sculpture, famous for its naturalism, as opposed to a stiffer, more static pose, is thought to be the most faithful depiction. |
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The foundation was created in 2007 by international sculpture artist Pablo Atchugarry, with the aim to keep a dialogue between art and nature. |
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The beginnings of this sculpture type started with the Islamization of Sulu. |
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Stone sculpture also took other forms, such as the limestone relief panels at Palenque and Piedras Negras. |
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The largest and richest of these elite compounds sometimes possessed sculpture and art of craftsmanship equal to that of royal art. |
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Mail has applications in sculpture and jewellery, especially when made out of precious metals or colourful anodized metals. |
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Two superb collections of sculpture are in the Bargello and the Museum of the Works of the Duomo. |
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At around the same time, art began to appear in New Guinea, including the earliest examples of sculpture in Oceania. |
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The sculpture, designed by Paul Wayland Bartlett was eventually cast in Europe and presented back to the US for display. |
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The high points of this cultural creativity are magnificent architecture, sculpture, and painting. |
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Monumental architecture in the form of majestic temples and sculpture in stone and bronze reached a finesse never before achieved in India. |
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Shona sculpture in has survived through the ages and the modern style is a fusion of African folklore with European influences. |
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No contemporary painting or sculpture of Confucius survives, and it was only during the Han Dynasty that he was portrayed visually. |
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This sculpture on the roundabout near the start of the A66 east of Middlesbrough represents steel being poured. |
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Lilac Park, founded in 1958, has a permanent sculpture display and a large rosarium. |
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Literature, painting, sculpture, and philosophy all experienced an unusually vibrant period. |
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I think at the moment the sculpture is a nice piece of history, but if the council destroys it, they would be showing their belief in the curse. |
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The commemorative sculpture, funded by public subscription, was made by sculptor Joel Walker and cast in bronze. |
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Poetry is an art of time. We cannot read it backwards, or to and fro, or round and round like sculpture or a picture. |
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Two abseilers were brought in to install the sculpture, which hangs by steel cables over a staircase in the gallery's glass-roofed extension. |
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Staying on the artsy side of things, as of Thursday the house will be offering free arts sculpture, printing, engraving and monotype workshop. |
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Sir Antony Gormley's giant Gateshead sculpture never featured in one of AA Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories. |
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The new deal will see the return of the iconic Barbara Hepworth sculpture, Rock Form, to Wolverhampton. |
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She was also known for book illustrations and for sculpture, even carving a number of commissioned altarpieces for Ontario churches. |
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The sculpture is dotted with about 40 translucent gold balls that each contain a xenon flash lamp and a little computer. |
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The Loyalist Memorial at Upper Canada Village has a representative sculpture of the Loyalists, created by Canadian sculptor Jacobine Jones. |
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She learned Raku early, but started her career as a painter and then turned to sculpture. |
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On the whole, however, the sculpture seems like a graceful but jury-rigged Mobius strip in imminent danger of springing apart. |
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Giant Clydesdale Baron became the focus for the horse sculpture in Falkirk known as The Kelpies. |
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Subjects chosen for presentation include Realism, Impressionism, origami, sculpture, quilting, and kinetic art. |
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No surprise, then, if Barbier's reflection on the contemporary body involves an elaborate reformulation of sculpture. |
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Purchased by the city of Knidos in the mid-4th century BCE, the sculpture served as a cult statue in the Temple of Aphrodite Euploia. |
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Kyphosis is a sculpture in sand of the spine, with a film projected down on to it. |
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Over the altar, he installed a baldachino as well as an imposing crucifix by a prominent sculpture from Lyon. |
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Republican millionaires bought his sculpture, but they came with leftish titles. |
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Now, Borkson and Sandoval have created a Rorschach-esq sculpture. |
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The practice of dedicating temples to different deities came into vogue followed by fine artistic temple architecture and sculpture style of Vastu Shastra. |
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The materials used in sculpture are diverse, changing throughout history. |
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The art of the portrait flourished in Ancient Greek and especially Roman sculpture, where sitters demanded individualized and realistic portraits, even unflattering ones. |
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Since 1918 he had developed an interest in modern painting and sculpture. |
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A bas relief sculpture of John Lombe is on Derby's Exeter Bridge. |
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A monument was erected in their honour in Tolpuddle in 1934, and a sculpture of the martyrs, made in 2001, stands in the village in front of the Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum. |
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A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. |
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In Millennium Park, there is the reflective Cloud Gate sculpture. |
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The Quantum Leap is an abstract sculpture unveiled in the town centre in 2009 to mark the bicentenary on the birth of Shrewsbury biologist Charles Darwin. |
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The most elaborate ensembles of stone sculpture, including reliefs, come from southern France, at Roquepertuse and Entremont, close to areas colonized by the Greeks. |
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Related to abstract expressionism was the emergence of combining manufactured items with artist materials, moving away from previous conventions of painting and sculpture. |
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More sculpture than staircase, the construction might best be described as a series of ribbonlike forms, made from very unribbon-like one and half inch thick hot-rolled steel. |
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Duchamp continued to produce sculpture in secret including an installation with the realistic depiction of a woman viewable only through a peephole. |
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Like Pablo Picasso's innovative reinventions of painting and sculpture in the early 20th century via Cubism and constructed sculpture, Pollock redefined the way art is made. |
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In public art and sculpture there are many works dedicated to the sport. |
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In October 2013 a sculpture commemorating the efforts of miners to rebuild the Czech village of Lidice devastated during the Second World War was unveiled. |
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Beneath each window is a floral swag by Grinling Gibbons, constituting the finest stone carving on the building and some of the greatest architectural sculpture in England. |
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Plinths were provided for sculpture and pedestals for lighting. |
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The smiling kouros is the first fully free-standing sculpture in art. |
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In France, Art Nouveau ceramics sometimes crossed the line into sculpture. |
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Also, there is teaching of food carving in Chinese culture, typically using vegetables as materials to carve the sculpture for animals and spiritual beings. |
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The sculpture is a life-size depiction of the unattributed 1932 photograph, which shows a group of 11 ironworkers above the Rockefeller Center construction site. |
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The Pectinidae play an extremely important role in many benthic communities and exhibit a wide range of shell shape, sizes, sculpture, and culture. |
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Deft and comfy, if gnashy of engine, the Prizm looks like an inspired sketch that somehow made it into metal and ought to be viewed as a traveling sculpture exhibit. |
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Kitsch may be the only word for a sculpture consisting of several tall, vertical chrome pylons punctuated with drippy, woundlike gashes that glow with changing LED colors. |
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In May 2015 a sculpture by Antony Gormley was erected on Lundy. |
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Moore made many preparatory sketches and drawings for each sculpture. |
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This remains the major monument of Dutch Golden Age sculpture. |
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Although modern sculpture and architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the 19th century, the beginnings of modern painting can be located earlier. |
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Scotland's ecclesiastical art paid a heavy toll as a result of Reformation iconoclasm, with the almost total loss of medieval stained glass, religious sculpture and paintings. |
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There is a memorial sculpture in the Rose Garden of Hazlehead Park. |
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While in London, Moore extended his knowledge of primitive art and sculpture, studying the ethnographic collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. |
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Passing a Renato Niemis glass sculpture commemorating the dead, you enter a tunnel in the earthworks, resembling the reinforced shelters in airfields. |
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They also began reviving plastic arts such as bronze casting for sculpture, and used the classical naturalism as the foundation of drawing, painting and sculpture. |
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The Gothic period is essentially defined by Gothic architecture, and does not entirely fit with the development of style in sculpture in either its start or finish. |
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Painting in a style that can be called Gothic did not appear until about 1200, or nearly 50 years after the origins of Gothic architecture and sculpture. |
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Megalithic sculpture has been discovered in several sites in Indonesia. |
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Roman sculpture is often less idealized than the Greek precedents. |
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And when Congo had been emptied of masks with cutout eyes and old wooden bowls and long-phallused fertility figures, he turned his thoughts to local stone sculpture. |
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Over the Chapel door is a sculpture representing St George and the dragon. |
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Greek and Etruscan artists built on the artistic foundations of Egypt, further developing the arts of sculpture, painting, architecture, and ceramics. |
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In late November 2007, it was announced that Emin was one of six artists to have been shortlisted to propose a sculpture for the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square. |
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Respect for the ancients of Greece and Rome affected politics, philosophy, sculpture, literature, theater, education, architecture, and even sexuality. |
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Greek sculptures adorned Hellenistic landscape gardening on the Palatine or in the villas, or were imitated in Roman sculpture yards by Greek slaves. |
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The sculpture is preserving what would otherwise have been lost. |
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Whiteread created this small, plaster sculpture for a charity auction by the Prior Weston PTA, in support of the Prior Weston primary school in Islington, London. |
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Rome first became a major artistic centre during ancient Rome, with forms of important Roman art such as architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work. |
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By the 1960s Abstract expressionism, Geometric abstraction and Minimalism, which reduces sculpture to its most essential and fundamental features, predominated. |
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In both areas, sculpture was initially of stone, and later of terracotta and metal as the civilizations in these areas became more technologically proficient. |
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Populations in the African Great Lakes are not known for their sculpture. |
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The Nubian Kingdom of Kush in modern Sudan was in close and often hostile contact with Egypt, and produced monumental sculpture mostly derivative of styles to the north. |
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The best known example of Minoan sculpture is the Snake Goddess figurine. |
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The rate of stylistic development between about 750 and 300 BC was remarkable by ancient standards, and in surviving works is best seen in sculpture. |
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Traditional sculpture in Myanmar emerged before the Bagan period. |
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In Thailand and Laos, sculpture was mainly of Buddha images, often gilded, both large for temples and monasteries, and small figurines for private homes. |
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Individual potters also became known, such as He Chaozong, who became famous in the early 17th century for his style of white porcelain sculpture. |
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The sculpture Madonna and Child, which can be seen in the transept, is believed to be Michelangelo's only sculpture to have left Italy within his lifetime. |
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These works deserve a place in any survey of postminimal sculpture. |
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Byzantine art, though producing superb ivory reliefs and architectural decorative carving, never returned to monumental sculpture, or even much small sculpture in the round. |
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During the 20th century, the Colombian sculpture began to develop a bold and innovative work with the aim of reaching a better understanding of national sensitivity. |
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Early Philippine sculpture is characterized by frontal nudity. |
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Objects representative of the Hellenistic period include black slip pottery, amphorae, bronze sculpture, exquisite gold jewelry, and some extraordinary rhytons. |
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Maya stone sculpture emerged into the archaeological record as a fully developed tradition, suggesting that it may have evolved from a tradition of sculpting wood. |
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The wealth of the period led to a greatly increased production of luxury forms of small sculpture, including engraved gems and cameos, jewellery, and gold and silverware. |
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By the 15th century Nottingham had established itself as a centre of a thriving export trade in religious sculpture made from Nottingham Alabaster. |
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Many buildings were adorned with sculpture or painted stucco reliefs. |
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This sculpture was made around 1470 under the rule of King Axayacatl, the predecessor of Tizoc, and is said to tell the history of the Mexicas and a prophecy for the future. |
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At the time of his accession, the royal palaces of France were ornamented with only a scattering of great paintings, and not a single sculpture, either ancient or modern. |
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Many forms of Protestantism also do not approve of religious sculpture. |
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Many of the most important sculptures of China and Japan in particular are in wood, and the great majority of African sculpture and that of Oceania and other regions. |
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Pottery is one of the oldest materials for sculpture, as well as clay being the medium in which many sculptures cast in metal are originally modelled for casting. |
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Literature was doing well, but the fine arts languished as the Great Exhibition of 1851 showcased Britain's industrial prowess rather than its sculpture, painting or music. |
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Many different painting techniques have been used in making sculpture, including tempera, oil painting, gilding, house paint, aerosol, enamel and sandblasting. |
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