stories‚ you reduce the number of people who can tell one. Now require that the captivating story have amazing illustrations to go along with it and you’ve narrowed the author pool down to a handful of people‚ with David Wiesner among them - as evidenced by his Caldecott Medal book The Three Pigs (2001). Wiesner takes it a step further‚ though‚ winning Caldecott Honor Medals with Free Fall (1988) and Sector 7 (1999) and Caldecott Medals with Tuesday (1991) and Flotsam (2006) - each one with only pictures
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2013 History of Sculpture The history of sculpting has existed since the prehistoric age‚ the earliest artists used of materials such as ivory and clay. Many people think of the Egyptians or the Greeks as the original creators of sculpture. It is commonly known that the ancient Egyptians formed a number of sculptures developed for purely aesthetic reasons. The early Egyptians created monuments of Sphinxes and Pharaohs‚ some of which are still currently in existence. Sculpture has frequently been
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[pic] BONIFACIO MONUMENT Filipino sculptors came to be known in the middle of the 19th century. Classical Philippine sculpture reached its peak in the works of Guillermo Tolentino (1890-1976). His best known masterpiece is the Bonifacio Monument‚ which is a group sculpture composed of numerous figures massed around a central obelisk. The principal figure is Andres Bonifacio‚ leader of the revolution against Spain in 1896. Behind him stands Emilio Jacinto‚ the brains of the Katipunan. The Bonifacio
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Allison Bell HUM 302 October 21‚ 2012 Egyptian Art and Sculptures Ancient Egyptian art is the painting‚ sculpture‚ architecture and other arts produced by the civilization in the lower Nile Valley from 5000 BC to 300 AD. Ancient Egyptian Art reached a level in painting and sculpting that was highly stylistic and symbolic. A lot of the art that was discovered and saved came from tombs and monuments therefore there is an extreme emphasis on life after death and an emphasis on preserving the
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Ice sculpture is a form of sculpture that uses ice as the raw material. Sculptures from ice can be abstract or realistic and can be functional or purely decorative. Ice sculptures are generally associated with special or extravagant events because of their limited lifetime. The lifetime of a sculpture is determined primarily by the temperature of its environment and thus‚ a sculpture can last from mere minutes to possibly months. There are several ice festivals held around the world‚ hosting competitions
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that some times he simply draws and sometimes he draws a cartoons. Dogs‚ almost steal into most of his cartoons unconsciously. This lends a tone to the work. An animal lover himself‚ dogs act as an detached observer in the picture‚ much like the artist who created his work. (Charles Schultz who created Peantus had many characters drawn from real life. He had poodle which he drew in his cartoons. Mario’s boxer “Tommy” he says was his best friend and worst critic. We may conclude that his cartoons
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Sculpture in art refers to a branch of visual arts that involves the three dimensional depiction of art forms. According to Wikipedia‚ sculpture is one of the plastic arts‚ that is‚ arts which involve the physical manipulation of plastic mediums such as clay or plaster. Sculpture originally referred to the addition of material‚ that is modelling and the removal of material‚ that is carving‚ but the reduction in the distinction of the various art forms coupled with modernism has changed what might
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Renaissance artists achieved ideal of harmony and balance comparable with the works of ancient Greece or Rome. Renaissance Classicism was a form of art that removed the extraneous detail and showed the world as it was. Forms‚ colours and proportions‚ light and shade effects‚ spatial harmony‚ composition‚ perspective‚ anatomy - all are handled with total control and a level of accomplishment for which there are no real precedents. Up until the middle ages‚ the role and status of artists in society
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Sculpture is one of the few pieces of art that engages our senses differently than with any other type of art. This is because sculpture occupies spaces a three-dimensional mass‚ compared to paintings that occupy two-dimensional spaces. Paintings and other two- dimensional artwork can suggest density‚ but sculpture is dense. We fully apprehend sculpture by using no only the visual and tactile senses‚ but also the weight and volume behind those surfaces. However‚ Sculpture is not experienced only
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Assignment #1‚ Option 2: Sculpture of the Renaissance A time of extraordinary beauty in the field of art was the period known as High Renaissance. There was a growing trend towards realism‚ and artists of the time aspired to achieve beauty‚ harmony and naturalism in their work. These qualities began to revolve around a movement called humanism‚ which was a philosophical school of thought that attached more importance to humans and less to God. In this respect‚ sculpture became so incredibly lifelike
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