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Jaume Plensa i Suñé (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈʒawmə ˈplɛnsə]; born 23 August 1955) [1] is a Spanish visual artist, sculptor, designer and engraver. He has also created opera sets, video projections and acoustic installations.
Écorché by Leonardo da Vinci.. An écorché (French pronunciation:) is a figure drawn, painted, or sculpted showing the muscles of the body without skin, normally as a figure study for another work or as an exercise for a student artist.
Kaino was born in Los Angeles.Kaino grew up in Cerritos and East Los Angeles; he is fourth-generation Japanese-American.He attended UC Irvine and received a BA in 1993 after which he attended UC San Diego where he completed an MFA in 1997.
A Polykleitan Diadumenos, in a Roman marble copy, National Archaeological Museum of Athens. His Greek name was traditionally Latinized Polycletus, but is also transliterated Polycleitus (Ancient Greek: Πολύκλειτος, Classical Greek Greek pronunciation: [polýkleːtos], "much-renowned") and, due to iotacism in the transition from Ancient to Modern Greek, Polyklitos or Polyclitus.
The meaning of the term "mobile" as applied to sculpture has evolved since it was first suggested by Marcel Duchamp in 1931 to describe the early, mechanized creations of Alexander Calder. [5] At this point, "mobile" was synonymous with the term "kinetic art", describing sculptural works in which motion is a defining property.
Nike was by far the most common winged goddess portrayed in Classical art, and aside from her wings, her most consistently recognisable attribute, in both Athens and elsewhere, seems to have been her flying drapery. This sculpture was designed to stand atop a column and be seen from below, as one would walk up along the path to the temple.
Budai [a] is a nickname given to the historical Chinese monk Qieci (Chinese: 契此; pinyin: qiècǐ) in the Later Liang Dynasty, who is often identified with and venerated as the future or Maitreya Buddha in Chan Buddhism and Buddhist scripture.
Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. In addition, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost.