... around the pipe, from bottom to top. You will need to divide your "torso" into three sections; chest, hip, and the top of the thighs. Be sure to make simple geometric shapes and planes for the three sections in this stage. For example, Figure 4 shows how the chest is a long rectangler box shape, the hip with a wide rectangular shape, and thighs ... needs more or less of the clay by using the modeling tool, please look at Figure 5. For instance, the sides of the torso are rounded, and because you used simple geometric shapes, the edges have to be removed to start making it rounder, Figur...

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... shows the importance of intellectualism within each culture. It is apparent that from the beginnings of Greek art, meticulous order and precision were held on a high plateau. The Protogeometric and Geometric periods are good examples of such advanced thinking. The beginnings of the Protogeometric period display a distinct interest in mathematical order. During this period, artists decorated vases with circles and symmetrical ... patterns. As the dominant style changed from Protogeometric to Geometric, this order and precision was amplified. The popular "circle and semicircle patterns we...

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... shows the importance of intellectualism within each culture. It is apparent that from the beginnings of Greek art, meticulous order and precision were held on a high plateau. The Protogeometric and Geometric periods are good examples of such advanced thinking. The beginnings of the Protogeometric period display a distinct interest in mathematical order. During this period, artists decorated vases with circles and symmetrical ... patterns. As the dominant style changed from Protogeometric to Geometric, this order and precision was amplified. The popular "circle and semicircle patterns we...

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... when combined with the knowledge of the title are immediate. Its emotion speaks loudly and clearly. Rodchenko's work is intellect all the way. The work is cleverly constructed- it is geometric analytical and very calculated. It explores and provokes the viewer in a very different way from that of Giacometti's work. The constructivists as a group were vastly different than the surrealists. The ... " moves, the lines and angles created by the "legs" seem to twist and writhe. It can be seen as a struggle- the last twitching of a person near death. The way the geometric elements are connecte...

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... used steel and other metal types. The "Untitled", (1969-91) series of Donald Judd is mostly made of aluminum and plexiglass. These installations usually consist of straight lines and simple geometric shapes forming boxlike sculptures which has volume. Richard Serra's installations usally consist of rusted steel sheets. He usually bends them and places them upright. His most known sculpture is the ... collapse. In his other work "Torqued Ellipses", he has several steel sheets transformed into ellipses. These ellipses, as seen in the picture to the right, are not closed to full geometric ...

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... at the side, was derived form Egyptian art. 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. The statue marked the grave of a young Athenian aristocrat. A kouros is a freestanding statue that can be found decorating temples ... because of the way they were carved, but they had a distinguished athletic build unlike the Egyptian statues. Here the artist delineated the figure's anatomy with ridges a...

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... the object exactly as it was in the real world. When people began exploring African art they became fascinated with the way that it stood out. African art had strong geometric shapes and solid lines, this fascinated many artists in Europe who were becoming tired with traditional European arts. When explorers first brought the pieces back to Europe Missionaries displayed the ... the artists who experimented and liked the way African art portrayed things were Geaorges Braque, Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Pablo Picasso. Many of Pablo's paintings are known for geometric shapes an...

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... Egyptian sculpture. The Egyptians quarried their own stone in prismatic blocks and one can see that even in their freestanding statues strength of design is attained by the retention of geometric unity. By contrast in Sumer stone must have been imported from remote sources often in the form of miscellaneous boulders the amorphous character of which seems to have been retained ... in the middle and late subdivisions of the early dynastic period. One very notable group of figures from Tall al-Asmar Iraq dating from the first of these phases show a geometric simplification of forms that to...

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... most about this is the humor that was installed not only through the shapes and images, but the texture that pulls it together. What draws me in is the sharp geometric shapes on the lobster which creates a fierce image compared to the much more organic shapes on the cat. This painting combines humor and fear of the two animals duel with ... but then for some reason added a dark blob in the middle of the entire canvas and added a splatter effect to the whole work of art. I guess I didn't get the vibrant geometric feel of what the painting should be. The last work off art to my disliking ...

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... . Subtractive techniques were used to carve the gypsum or limestone figures. Also the individuals are depicted as contemporary people who would have been apart of society. The gestures, poses, circular geometric shapes, and attributes of the men and women portrayed, reveal the symbolic and realistic properties that embodied Sumerian society. The detailed characteristics that define each of the Eshnunna statuettes are ... ...

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... went under many changes, often in a short period of time. These different time periods are easily seen through many of there artworks from the Greek time period. Ranging from the Geometric period of 800 B.C. to the Hellenistic period of 146 B.C. Greek art was constantly changing and evolving as the Greek culture advanced into arguably the most sophisticated culture this world has ... ...

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... sculptures suggested a new way of seeing the human form- from several sides at once, rather than from the fixed perspective of the traditional two dimensions. These visions combined with the geometric shapes and broke out into a revolutionary painting that shocked Picasso's critics, friends, and fellow artists alike. In 1907 Picasso began work on his breakthrough painting- a picture so large that he ... ...

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... and depth of form. Throughout the 1980's until the present, Mason has twisted geometry around in his series of Torque vessels. He wed the vibrancy of his early work to geometric restraint of firebrick installations to create new totemic sculptures. Surfaces have always been important to Mason. Whether rough or smooth, incredibly tactile surfaces are balanced by the huge scale of ... ...

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... essential to the development of the ultimate cannon. The idea of symmetria was very important. Symmetria means common measure of proportions not mirror symmetry. The figure was broken down into geometric parts and it was the controlled balance of these parts that created the symmetry. Another concern of the artist was that he had to balance the combination of flexed and ... ...

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... essential to the development of the ultimate cannon. The idea of symmetria was very important. Symmetria means common measure of proportions not mirror symmetry. The figure was broken down into geometric parts and it was the controlled balance of these parts that created the symmetry. Another concern of the artist was that he had to balance the combination of flexed and ... ...

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... of strongly dissimilar elements. Contrast can be described as high or low. Contrast can be achieved through use of elements such as value (light against dark), shape (large against small, geometric against organic) (ames.k12.ia.us). It can be seen in areas where the brush strokes can be distinguish or with shapes. Does the scale of the forms seems appropriate ... ...

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