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  2. Gesture drawing - Wikipedia

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    For some artists, a gesture drawing is the first step in preparing a more sustained work. Other artists, who seek to capture brief moments of time in a direct manner, consider the gesture drawing to be the end product. Drawing from life is often preferred over photographic reference as it allows the artist to view the model from multiple angles ...

  3. Mural (Julie Mehretu) - Wikipedia

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    The second consisted of thousands of drawings depicting "banks, bourses, and exchanges, markets and fairs, factories and warehouses, fortifications and towers". Third layer relied on "free drawing and gesture", which animated the composition and intervened into the earlier imagery with what Shiff terms as "the spontaneity of human feeling".

  4. Design tool - Wikipedia

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    Visual design tools are, for example, gesture, sketch, drawing, scale model, perspective drawing, photograph, film, video. Eugene S. Ferguson's 1977 paper in Science, entitled "The mind's eye: Nonverbal thought in technology", is credited for clarifying the role of visual reasoning in the thinking process. [6]

  5. Contour drawing - Wikipedia

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    Another technique similar to contour drawing is outline drawing; a division between form and the space a subject occupies. [4] All three types of drawing are considered to be gesture drawings; [4] the practice of drawing a series of bodies in still form. An outline drawing does not include the visual amusement of human sight, while a contour ...

  6. Architectural drawing - Wikipedia

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    An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture.Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to assist a building ...

  7. Marion Mahony Griffin - Wikipedia

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    [3] According to architecture critic, Reyner Banham, Griffin was "America’s (and perhaps the world’s) first woman architect who needed no apology in a world of men." [4] She produced some of the finest architectural drawing in America and Australia, and was instrumental in envisioning the design plans for the capital city of Australia ...

  8. The arts - Wikipedia

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    Some types of architecture manipulate space, volume, texture, light, shadow, or abstract elements, to achieve pleasing aesthetics. [20] Architectural works may be seen as cultural and political symbols, or works of art. The role of the architect, though changing, has been central to the design and implementation of pleasingly built environments ...

  9. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    This gesture is often made with the two hands held at chest or head level, the elbows against the side, and the head bowed towards the hands. Quenelle: The gesture created by French comedian Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala was often associated with anti-Zionism or antisemitic sentiments. It is compared to the bras d'honneur and the Nazi salute. It is ...