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    Relief sculpture appeared in many different cultures all throughout time. Relief sculpture can be created and found in many different forms and each culture’s relief consists of distinctive factors. Relief sculpture is different from a more well-known form, known as freestanding sculptures, because relief sculptures remain part of the background, however, they do project from it. Just like freestanding sculptures, relief can be made from carving or casting from many different types of material, such

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    Painting, sculpture, and architecture are considered the major forms of the fine arts. They have attracted many of the most ambitious artists. One of them being Jean Arp, the sculpture of the “Classical Sculpture.” This art piece is the Subject of the paper, and is located in the Dallas Museum of Art. It was released to the public in 1960, and has been favorite ever sense. The piece has such a deep meaning and so did his life. Jean Arp is a famous sculptor, painter, and poet. He spent the early

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    Thirdly, the sculpture is very accessible; the empty space around the sculpture provides students an opportunity to go closer and explore the sculpture in more detail. The space behind the sculpture allows walking around to view the sculpture from different angles. It is clear to recognize the sculpture as Venus from the front side, however, when standing really close to the backside or the side face of the sculpture, the image of Venus is really vague. since the carving is not very in detailed at

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    number of new methods. Archaic period,“saw a rapid development in the portrayal of the human figure” (William Biers). Many sculptures started making sculptors of human figures life sized after being inspired by the monumental stone sculpture of Egypt and Mesopotamia. This sculpture gave a new inspiration for many new sculptures and the making of human form sculptures. Many sculptures at the time were in sanctuaries and made for grave monuments. Statues were mainly stiff upright posters. They were all

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    The Sculpture Garden is part of the National Gallery of Australia that displays an extensive collection of unique sculptures from Australia and overseas in an outdoor environment. Dividing the landscape into four different parts as Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, four seasons, interest in plant materials can be maintained throughout the year. Bringing the people to sequentially progress from the Winter Garden origin, going through Spring Garden and ends at the Summer Garden, planting in the

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    into a wonderful museum full of figure sculptures to which the natural spot light shines from the sun hit the wonderful master pieces. Then you walk more deeply inside an exhibition room, suddenly, you notice that you are surrendered by medium size to large sculptures. One sculpture that is space equally to one an another, but they all have no cloth on. As you tend to get closer and closer and the story of the sculptures reveal more details of what is the sculpture tell you like a story telling. Even

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    introduce their own enjoyment to the art. With the sculptures being constantly moved to different locations, they were granted permission to be permanently positioned at Crosby beach in 2005, despite some objections. Certain people believed that the figures were offensive and pornographic due to them being naked with genitalia on show. They also believed that they were a safety hazard due to it being difficult to differ between a human and a sculpture in low lighting. Also, reaching the figures close

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    The sculptures, carvings, and frescoes of women that we have in the ancient world I think make it hard to get an exact depiction on what the roles and statues of women really were. There are a lot of archeologists that devote their lives to the study of reading these paintings. I feel like most of the time even the experts guess could be as good as a novice because even with art sometimes there are hidden meanings that only the artist knows. Although most of these sculptures and frescoes seem to

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    Change and Growth For my sculpture analysis, I went to downtown Naperville. While walking through downtown Naperville, I saw many different sculptures but the one that caught my attention was the “Change and Growth” sculpture. This sculpture was made by Jack Holme. When I first saw this sculpture, I knew I’ve never seen anything else like it. This sculpture has so many visual and design elements. Jack Holme’s sculpture is supposed to represent how the city of Naperville has changed throughout the

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    Classical Greek sculpture of the human body from the Archaic Greek sculpture of the body is the pose of the body. Early Classical Greek sculptures of the human body are asymmetrical. During this time period, sculptures started adapting the contrapposto pose to their sculptures. The contrapposto pose brought more life and energy to the sculptures than the previous Archaic Greek sculptures. Another feature that defines the Early Classical Greek sculpture of the human body is that the sculptures were made

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